Professional development on authentic design and engaging underrepresented stakeholders: Nearly 35 managers and key staff responsible for designing community engagement processes participated in one of the two 12-hour professional development sessions. They worked with three different real-time cases, for each determining the participation objectives and level of engagement for the overall design, then identifying and analyzing stakeholders before drafting the comprehensive design in teams.

This short video shows participants using “awareness cards” to better understand the spectrum of diversity, and then identifying and analyzing stakeholders for one of the cases.

Small groups share experiences and stories in an awareness exercise

Participants identify and analyze stakeholders for a case

Teams work through the authentic design process

Teams designing an authentic process for one of the cases