Community engagement
The process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well being of those people. Please note this is a working definition andmaydiffer fromany definitions related to Home Office targets.
(Public Health Practice Program Office 'Principles of community engagement', 1997) The Public Health Program Office is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services in the USA.
In the context of civil renewal, community engagement is the term for processes which help to build active and empowered communities. Its characteristics include enabling people to understand and exercise their powers and responsibilities as citizens, empowering them to organise through groups to work for their common good, and requiring public bodies to involve citizens in influencing and carrying out public services.
(Source: Home Office, 2004) | 
Community engagement
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