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_________1. Community enhancement seeks to better engage the community to achieve long-term and
sustainable outcomes, processes, relationships, discourse, decision-making, or implementation.
_________2. To be successful, community engagement must encompass strategies and processes that
are sensitive to the community-context in which it occurs.
_________3. Community engagement is the process of working collaboratively with and through groups of
people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting
the well-being of those people.
_________4. It often involves partnerships and coalitions that help mobilize resources and influence
systems, change relationships among partners, and serve as catalysts for changing policies, programs, and
practices.
_________5. In practice, community engagement is a blend of science and mathematics.
_________6. The science comes from sociology, public apology, political science, cultural anthropology,
organizational development, psychology, social- psychology and other disciplines.
_________7. The art comes from the understanding, skill, and sincerity used to apply and adapt the
science in ways that fit the community and the purposes of specific engagement efforts.
_________8. Community engagement can be pointless and unnecessary and require dedicated resources
such as time, funding, and people with the necessary skills.
_________9. Building and implementing effective strategies requires a solid grounding in the best tools,
techniques, and information available.
_________10. The linking of the term “community” to “engagement” serves to broaden the scope, shifting
the focus from the individual to the collective.
TEST III. APPLICATION
Instruction: Identify what community engagement form is applied in the following examples.
Choose your answer from the given options and write only the letter of your answer.
a. Community engagement with a focus on community development or community building
b. Community participation in consultation and decision-making
c. Community engagement that helps organizations, businesses etc. to improve their service delivery or to
achieve their goals