Community engagement is the active and sustained process of ensuring that community members are the leaders and producers of the work that happens in their communities—not just for one specific issue but for many issues and opportunities over time. Engagement usually includes a combination of:
- listening to a diversity of perspectives within communities
- collaboration between public leaders and community members, as well as among community members themselves, to review information, learn, share opinions about important issues, and identify solutions together, and
- participation from community members in important decisions and policy outcomes.
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