Session 5: Connect to Community

Presentations:

• Culture & Cultural Competency: Building Effective Partnerships (PDF), with Seth Cohen, NCECR
• Community Collaboration Toolbox: Stakeholder Analysis and Public Engagement (PDF), with Laura Van Riper, BLM

Optional Homework:

• Partner Cultural Awareness Exercise (PDF)
• Community Collaboration Situation Assessment (PDF)

Additional Resources:

Videos:

• Stakeholder Analysis, with Joy Lujan (5 min video/podcast)

• Partner Cultural Awareness, with Liz Madison (9 min video/podcast)

• Situation Assessments: An Overview, with Laura Van Riper, BLM (20 min)

• Collaborative Conservation - Spectrum of Public Engagement, with Wylie Carr, USFWS (11 mins)

Reading:

• Building Trust: When Knowledge from "Here" Meets Knowledge from "Away" (PDF)

• Understanding Collaboration, USDA FS National Collaboration Cadre (PDF) 

• DOI Spectrum of Stakeholder Engagement in Decision Making (PDF)\

• CEQ Collaboration in NEPA Handbook (PDF)

Other:

• Udall Foundation and John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution (NCECR)

• NCECR Training and Certificate Programs

Instructors: Anne Desmarais; Seth Cohen, PhD, Senior Program Manager, John S. McCain III National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution, Udall Foundation; Laura Van Riper, PhD, BLM Social Scientist, National Riparian Service Team.