According to the document, authentic community engagement requires education and empowerment. However, strategic plans involving community groups are often only partially implemented or left on shelves. For meaningful social impact, policymakers must utilize "context experts" who have lived experience of the issues, such as children and youth directly impacted. The document advocates empowering those with experiential knowledge to inform policy.

1. HEALTHY RESILIENCE, PROTECTIVE FACTORS & WELL-BEING STRATEGIES FOR
OVERCOMING ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACES)
According to the Tamarack Institute, there are “two things that make community
engagement authentic: education and empowerment.”
Across the globe, we talk, have speaker bureaus, focus groups and strategic planning
sessions that involve community groups, grassroot organizations and neighborhood
councils for a short duration of time only to develop nice colorful three year strategic
plans that then sit on shelves and/or are partially operationalized in one year
increments.
As public policymakers, if we really want to see meaningful community engagement
and social impact then we must utilize “Context Experts” as defined by the
Tamarack Institute are “people with lived experience of the situation, including
children & youth. They are the people who experientially know about the issue”.
PAPER | The Context Experts
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BEING AN OVERCOMER - HEALTHY RESILIENCE &
PROTECTIVE FACTORS FOR THE “BOUNCE-BACK” -
JULY 15, 2018
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