Name: Joshua P.

Demain
Team: Temperance
Offering #: X002

Learning Task 1.2

1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1997) provided a working
definition of community engagement Based on the definition, identify the
salient feature or the defining elements that distinguish the community
engagement.

- Community engagement can take numerous forms, and involve a variety of

partners which include groups, agencies, institutions, or individuals.
Collaborators may be engaged in health promotion, research, or policy
making. Community engagement can also be refer to a series of activities that
take place in a given community or continuum of community involvement.

2. Looking at the community engagement and models of knowledge flow (Weerts

& Sandmann, 2008), which of these approaches is more applicable to your
project? Why?

- I choose a one-way approach model. Spreading awareness is the most

significance factor in ensuring that we all survive and have a common or one
view in the future. The goal is not only to complete the project, but also to
interpret activities in accordance with the objectives and to disseminate
knowledge of how to apply, as well as to embody regarding to the learning
process.

3. Describe the community you will immerse. Do you think your project will
empower the people I’m the community? How?

- The community that I belong is made up of diverse group of individuals. I

think the project that I will propose will benefit not just for me but to the
community, I will also propose a project that will benefit directly to the
adolescents and to the parents of how important the sex education is, enable
to eradicate the teenage pregnancy and other effects such us HIV and send
awareness.

4. Listed in the discussion are possible gains of community engagement, which

of these gains are applicable to your experience? Why?

- Develop the ability to concentrate and acquiring competitiveness, which can

serve as a guide and a key to develop a skill, as well as to provide foundation
on how to be successful in a community engagement.