Community Engagement Plan

Community Engagement Plan Order Description Overview Identify a community that you know or belong to (for example, a sports club, a church group, or perhaps one of the university clubs/societies) in NSW, Australia. The community that you choose should be one that you can observe directly, and acquire information on without recourse to complex ethnographic methods (just say you are apart of a certain community in New South Wales, Australia). The purpose of this assessment is to undertake a professional needs assessment of your chosen community, and report the findings. Your needs assessment should include the following elements: - Explain why the community interests you in a professional capacity; - Explain why your chosen community is important, what they offer both the society and the individual; - Describe the challenges faced by your chosen community and how they arose, supported by evidence (community mapping); - Describe the goals of that community based on your own understanding from your insider perspective, as well as conversations you might have had with community-peers; - Based on those challenges and the community's goals, assess what the community's needs might be, and explain how you would prioritise those needs - Identify and explain what skills you might need (as a member of that community) to maximise the success of achieving your chosen community's goals.