Labs of Contextualized Urban Social Work
How to do community meetings; a lecturers perspective
Assignment
For your own context, write down the answers to the five questions. Do this well in advance so you can prepare for the community meetings early in the year.
Script and Tips
- Arrange for food and drinks during the meeting
- Don't 'just' present, interactive components like discussion sessions at several tables are very valuable
- For more Community Meeting Scripts see Module 7
Four W's, one H
In a nutshell you can order the elements you need for a successful community meeting by using the questions Who? What? When? Where? and How?
Who?
Who to invite? Every participant of the interviews off course, but who else?
- Other social work organisations.
- Local partners of the fieldworkpartner
- Policy makers.
- Local politicians.
What?
- The main element is that students give the results back to the neighbourhood.
- Reflection on process
- Discussions about the results between students, residents and social workers.
When?
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Where?
- Find a location in the project neighbourhood.
- The fieldwork partner is best placed to find a location.
How?
- Make sure there is space for local residents to reflect on the results, but also to contest or complement them.
- The community meeting should be more than presenting the results.
- Dialogue tables where students, professionals and local residents can discuss are important
Partners
