December Class Day
Name:
December Class Day
Date:
December 19, 2018
Time:
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
Event Description:
Emphasis: volunteerism and civic leadership
Leadership Module: Beyond Citizen Engagement to Citizen Participation
Leadership Module: Beyond Citizen Engagement to Citizen Participation
- Citizen engagement has been interpreted by many to simply be a simple conduit of information: delivery of information to citizen and citizen response.
- Citizen participation however, allows community residents, citizens, and stakeholders to play an active role in plans, processes, and decisions as is required by law.
- Understand the purposes of citizen participation and the strategies to implement them: discovering citizens? preferences; incorporating citizens? local knowledge; advancing fairness and justice; gaining legitimacy for public decisions; and adhering to the law for governmental entities.
