Community Focus helps clients engage communities through the use of group facilitation, community organizing and collaborative problem-solving. (For a more detailed look at specific projects and clients see our Results section.)

Outreach for Community-Based Implementation

We help clients engage in pro-active public outreach in which community members not only talk about solutions to problems … they actually help implement them.

We can:

• Facilitate public outreach on the grassroots level through productive public meetings
  
  
• Connect public agencies to community members and the resources they provide (local expertise, time and money)
  
  
• Organize resource teams of stakeholders to address, define and implement policy

Civic Engagement to Gather Public Input and Develop Buy-In

We help cities and other public agencies involve residents and other stakeholders in solutions-based consideration of difficult and complex issues.

We can:

• Design public surveys to gauge community feelings on issues
  
  
• Develop and facilitate deliberative workshops.

Community Capacity Building

We help local task forces and coalitions find new life.

We provide:

• Support and training to task forces about recruitment, public outreach and strategic planning
  
  
• Ongoing technical assistance to agency staff about meeting facilitation and group process