Step 1. Partnering
Resources
Community Engagement: Brief Overview of Data Collection Methods. Provides succinct information about developing focus groups, key informant interviews, community forums, public hearings, and surveys.
Facilitating Meetings: A Guide for Community Planning Groups. Addresses issues facing community planning groups, including opposition and disagreement.
Group Facilitation and Problem-Solving, The Community Tool Box. Describes how to conduct effective meetings and develop facilitation skills and techniques for leading group discussions.
Making the Meeting Accessible. Covers access issues in planning meetings—from physical space, to lighting, to interpreters, to bathroom locations, to the readability of materials.