A intro about what Community Partnership are. The Office of Community Engagement manages the community partnerships. Take a look at our current community partnerships.

Principles of Community Partnerships:

• Awareness
  • Conduct self-assessment of motivations, capacity, and goals.
  • Become knowledgeable about the community’s characteristics, conditions, values, and relationships with stakeholders.
• Transparency
  • Be clear about the purposes or goals of the engagement effort and the populations and/or communities you want to engage.
  • Clearly communicate and share information that engages partners and builds and strengthens partnership.
  • Communicate commitment to inform, consult, involve, empower, and collaborate.
• Integrity
  • Establish authentic relationships, build trust by adhering to ethical principles, and honor commitments.
  • Identify ways to know each partner, minimize partnership bureaucracy, and maximize partnership accountability.
• Humility
  • Accept that the institution’s expertise and knowledge are limited and can be improved upon by community members.
  • Avoid assuming that an external entity can bestow on a community the power to act in its own self-interest.
• Mutual Benefit
  • Pursue real improvements that benefit all partners engaged.
    Collaboration
  • Build a shared sense of ownership and leadership of engagement process.
  • Identify ways to know each partner, minimize partnership bureaucracy, and maximize partnership accountability.
• Competence
  • Recognize and respect the diversity of the community.
  • Effectively apply skills and knowledge in planning, design, implementation, and evaluation.
• Sustainability
  • Identify and mobilize community assets and strengths.
  • Develop community capacity and resources to make decisions and take action.
• Commitment
  • Remain engaged long-term.
• Adaptability
  • Be prepared to release control of actions or interventions to community control.
  • Be flexible enough to meet changing conditions and needs in the community.

Steps to becoming a community partner. 

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