COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Ci Keithia Pugh Hayden Bass Seattle

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Ci. Keithia Pugh & Hayden Bass, Seattle Public Library

Workshop goals Increased knowledge of what inclusive community engagement means Understand their importance in your day to day work in the library Increased knowledge of best practices Gain knowledge to support future work engaging communities

Why do this work?

Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California (USC)

Source: WA Office of Financial Management People living in poverty in WA

30, 609 One-third of WA homeless live in rural areas Homeless population Source: Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2013

Equality & equity

Key terms Community analysis Marketing Outreach Community partnerships Community engagement Equity

World Language Story Time

Seattle Youth Employment Program

Coalition work

New Horizons

Table discussion What are your library’s internal resources and assets? How might they help you work with community partners?

Action plan Who is not at your library? Where are they? Who is already working with them? What is your approach? What can you influence? What can you change to make community engagement possible at your library in the short term? Long term?

Thank you! Questions? Comments? Cikeithia. Pugh@spl. org Hayden. Bass@spl. org