Community Engagement, Leadership, and Development

Expand on your skills and knowledge to engage community members in planning, problem-solving, and decision-making processes that improve the social, political, and cultural well-being of civic and community life.

Developed in consultation with community practitioners, this certificate focuses on the strong links between community engagement, community leadership, and community development. From the policies and processes crucial to community mobilization to planning and evaluation models, you will explore the practice of critical awareness and have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate your newly acquired skills.

What You’ll Learn

• Enact and support active citizen participation in community and civic affairs.
• Engage excluded groups to improve the well-being of neighbourhoods and organizations.
• Assess and understand the demographics of an area.
• Guide community outreach and engagement initiatives.
• Develop and support the implementation of an engagement plan with diverse communities.
• Improve community well-being.
• Advocate, conduct research, and evaluate community programs.
• The historical evolution and theoretical underpinnings of community engagement.
• Models, principles, and methods of community engagement.
• Analytic frameworks for action on community engagement and community development.
• Skills for working with diverse communities.
• Best practices for community capacity-building.
• Policies and processes that restrict or inhibit effective community participation.