Community engagement is such a huge deal to make a community function sustainably and successfully. The problem is that very limited people actually know how to become engaged. In the community I lived in in Calgary I never once was aware of a community engagement initiative. Right before I moved we finally got a community news letter in the mail. In the back in tiny print showed the results of an apparent community election for a community council. I had been living in that community for 4 years and not once was I made aware of the existence of a community council.
Although the newsletter is a good step in the direction of beginning community engagement I don’t think much effort was ever put forth to kick start I large community gathering or response initiative. The only way anyone would have heard about this community council if they shopped at one grocery store in the area and read the bulletin board. If the community could create a website and make it well known to everyone residing in that community that it existed and what it was for community engagement would probably sky rocket.
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