Having difficulty how to best engage with stakeholders online? You’re certainly not alone. We’re all trying to figure it out.
Below are some helpful resources.
FREE ONLINE CONFERENCE: Building Our Skills Together Online
The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) and the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) have partnered to produce a series of online sessions The Building Our Skills Together Online Conference during June 2 – 4, 2020, on community engagement and equity during the COVID-19 crisis.
You Are Invited to Join Us in these free online sessions to hear from state, local, Tribal and community leaders as well as international experts in the field of public participation and engagement. Integrated simultaneous interpretation in Spanish will be available. Please see the conference flyers below, available in English and Spanish.
Although this is a three day conference of online sessions, there is no expectation that you must participate in all three days or in all sessions. Many of the topics covered are intended to assist anyone who would like to learn more about:
• Using digital engagement tools effectively to plan and participate in virtual online meetings
• How organizations are adapting engagement practices during the COVID-19 crisis
• What it all means for equity and environmental justice
HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?
Please register at this link: https://bit.ly/calengage2020.
All sessions are free and online.
For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact Sarah Rubin at Sarah.Rubin@conservation.ca.gov or call (916) 214-5731.
The Building Our Skills Together Conference is rooted in the experience that many people are going through during this crisis—the struggle to maintain connection in the face of the COVID-19 crisis and the even more pressing challenge to do better when it comes to authentic engagement. The crisis has highlighted once again, the pattern of deepening racial and ethnic inequities across health, the environment and the economy.
Local Government Commission’s New Virtual Engagement Best Practices Guide
From the Local Government Commission:
The current COVID-19 shelter-in-place conditions are shifting much of our work and engagement to virtual settings.
To help you and your community adapt to these new circumstances, LGC has developed the following guide to Virtual Engagement Best Practices.
This 12-page guidebook walks you through some of the most important considerations in developing your virtual engagement event, highlighting some of LGC’s lessons learned through our 35+ years experiencing connecting leaders and engaging communities.
We hope this guide will help you and your community develop more effective, interactive virtual events during this unprecedented time. Please share this resource broadly with your networks.
Click here for the Guide to Virtual Engagement Best Practices.