Community Consultation
With a focus on challenges and opportunities, community consultations help clients gain insight into their communities’ experiences and how community members experience issues of importance to the organisation.
Community consultation
Through community consultation, organizations can:
Recognise diversity, equity, and inclusion-related barriers that exist in their community
Identify ways of addressing barriers
Pinpoint factors that impact diverse communities
The knowledge unearthed through community consultations can be invaluable in informing processes, policies, and projects.
What you will experience
Just as each community is unique in its characteristics, challenges, and strengths, the shape that community engagements can take are varied. Consultations might include facilitated dialogues, the co-creation of documents and visual representations, or holding focus groups on specific community issues.
Consultations can run from a couple hours to several days, depending on the specific needs of the community involved.
What is universal is that those engaging in community consultation with Social Fabric Institute Inc. will experience a process that is interactive, interesting, and respectful.
Our facilitators are all experts in their fields. They are active listeners and problem solvers who excel in meeting people where they are and creating constructive spaces for difficult conversations. Moreover, they are open-minded, empathetic, and know how to ask the right questions to get to the root of the issues facing individual communities; They know how to work with and through those issues.
How can community consultations benefit your organization?
Through community consultation, Social Fabric Institute Inc. helps organizations:
Gain valuable new knowledge and insights about the community
Determine appropriate interventions
Develop more informed policies
Design and undertake more targeted projects