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The Learning Centre is aimed to not only help first-time engagers, but to also provide a space for continuous improvement and capability building for seasoned engagers from our Community Engagement Community of Practice (“CECoP”).
Community Engagement at Our Council
It's a very exciting time in the community engagement space at our Council
With legislative changes, a new Policy, and Framework including new templates and processes to follow, there's a lot of new information out there. The community engagement team would love to see you at our NEW training session Community Engagement at Our Council.
Resources for this training:
Community Engagement Framework
Community Engagement Evaluation & Reporting Framework
Community Engagement in Action
This training will break down the community engagement process step by step using your real project. The community engagement team will support you, end to end throughout your project to:
If you have an upcoming project that you would like support with, please contact the engagement team.
Email engagement@ourcouncil.com.au
COMING SOON
Events including:
The People Team have a full program for staff learning and development. Why not check out some of the upcoming opportunities to build your skills in areas that can compliment the community engagement process.
These sessions can be booked via our internal learning platform, or via the Staff Events Calendar.
Upcoming training:
Our Council runs amazing events throughout the year for the community. Many of these events also provide the perfect opportunity for community consultation.
Next time you have an engagement project, why not check out the events calendar and see if you can link into one of the upcoming events?
Our major events include:
Head to the Engaging Our Communities page to find information on how to reach groups that we've identified as potentially having more barriers to engagement such as language, physical ability, digital comprehension, lack of time and social isolation.
There's also a list of key internal contacts who work regularly within these communities and are a treasure trove of information and resources to help you.
The Engagers provides the opportunity for you to build your expertise and deepen your knowledge in the practice of community engagement at our council.
Our objectives are to:
Membership is voluntary. If you would like to join The Engagers please email engagement@ourcouncil.com.au and you will be added to our mailing list.
The Community Engagement Team will email invites to our monthly events and training sessions.
The Engagers will hold monthly stand-up meetings at 11am on a Wednesday to talk through anything community engagement related or specific project questions.
Monthly events and training sessions will also be held. You can view the calendar of events below.
| Date | Topic | Facilitator(s) |
| October | Monthly stand-up: TBC Training: Engaging Our Communities | CE Team CE Team |
| November | Monthly stand-up: TBC Training/ Event: TBC | CE Team Guess speakers: TBC |
| December | Monthly stand-up: TBC Event: End of year celebration – let’s take a look at 2021 and the consultations that were. | CE Team |
We are very excited to announce new engagement training for all teams. To help with the legislative changes of the Local Government Act 2020, the Community Engagement Team are offering personalised team training across the organisation.
This is a must for all teams across Council to gain an understanding on expectations for your community engagement projects moving forward.
We explore the recent changes to the Local Government Act in including a key feature being to ensure affected community groups are represented in community engagements.
We'll be running an upcoming session with the Research Team as part of your community engagement background research.
Uncertainty is the name of the game when it comes to face to face facilitation in Australia.
We are returning to face-to-face facilitation. Or are we? In these uncertain times, how do we decide and plan in what continues to be surprising and changing circumstances?
Our community partner shares some of their surprising finds from the past 12 months.
Have questions or want to learn more about Social Pinpoint, contact us below:
| Name | Social Pinpoint |
|---|---|
| Phone | 1(800)469-0127 |
| Info@SocialPinpoint.com | |
| Website | www.socialpinpoint.com |
