Community Engagement and Employability
Your report will draw on materials on LEO, further research and the support materials offered for this unit. You need to consider the following issues: the common good, types of community engagement, skills required to engage with the community and at-risk clients, ethical implications of community engagement and how community engagement will assist with your employability.
Executive Summary (200 words) ( not counted in overall word count)
Discussion of community engagement theory (500-700 words) with particular reference to the pillars of community engagement (You will have similar content being prepared for your remote assessment if you doing the literature review)
- Building connections:
- Acting with humility,
- Developing understanding
- Affirming dignity,
- Pursuing Justice
Description of community engagement types and approaches including advocacy, community-based research, direct community engagement and project-based community engagement (400-600 words) ( ACUE presentation)
- Overview of the skills and challenges of workers and volunteers in community-engaged services (300-500 words) ( careers presentation)
- Benefits to personal and professional self-development and employability
- recommendations to self-development (250-300)
- Conclusion (100 words)
- References (not counted in word count)
