ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITIES ASSESSMENT
Assessment 1
Scenario: The Community Development officer at the local council has allocated a $12,000 grant to the coordinator of the local Community Centre to run a new Community Engagement Project. Your team has been selected by the coordinator to design, manage, and facilitate the project. You have a timeline of 6 months to fulfil your responsibilities.
In small groups students are to write the basics for a community project for a community of their choice. Students are to and choose a community who will benefit from their project. Community characteristics must include either older adults or people with disabilities. The project must be set in and meet the parameters of the scenario described above.
ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITIES ASSESSMENT
Examples of Communities could be:
• The local community in the Shire where you currently live, or subsets of the community such as:
• A religious Community
• A cultural Community
• A local sports and recreation club
• Members of a community organisation.
Students are encouraged to think realistically about the community that they wish to target through their project, how they will engage with this community, and why they have chosen this community to participate in the project.
Students are encouraged to thinking creatively and inclusively in designing their project.
Examples of Community projects could be:
• A Community Kitchen
• A Community Garden
• An Online Learning Program to develop digital literacy skills.
• A Community Arts Project.
ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITIES ASSESSMENT
Assessment 2 Principles: Presentation [35 Marks]
Students are encouraged to be creative in how they design and deliver their presentation.
Task: In small groups students are to give a presentation of approximately 10-15 minutes per group. Each group member must present a section or sections of the presentation. The group will need to collaborate and meet regularly in order to discuss your presentation and project ideas and equally contribute to planning, producing and presenting the assessment.
Please note * A minutes template has been created for students to fill in as evidence of teamwork.
The presentation must address the following:
1. A definition of community [in-test reference required]
2. A discussion of the importance of community
3. A relevant definition of community engagement
4. A discussion of the importance of community participation
5. A description of the principles and values of community engagement:
access/inclusion /connection/belonging/dignity/choice/diversity.
6. Discuss how these the principles and values apply in the aged care and disability sectors.
ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITIES ASSESSMENT
Conclusion
The presentation is to conclude with a brief initial description of the project [WHAT- you plan to do] the group plans to develop for the community engagement plan, the project objectives [WHY-the aim and benefits to the community] and the characteristics of the community [WHO] they plan to engage. Students are to present this information in assessment 2 before than can move on with the remainder of the assessment task. Students are to make records of team meetings, including the date, and record the updates from each member of the team, with timelines, action items, and progress clearly identified. Students shall receive marks for evidence of effective teamwork. Students shall meet with their lecture to present and review this information at various touchstones throughout the semester, and to seek any clarification they may need in writing their the basic of their project.
7. At least three relevant and appropriate academic sources must be used and correctly referenced in the-text and in a reference list at the end. Use APA referencing style.