Assessment task 2 Community engagement, skills and employability Due date :Wednesday 18 September 5pm Length and/or format 2000-word Report Weighting 50% Learning Outcomes GA1 demonstrate respect...

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Executive Summary    3
Discussion of Community Engagement Theory with Particular Reference to the Pillars of Community Engagement    4
Making Connections:    4
Behaving with Humility:    4
Good Level of Understanding:    5
Maintaining Dignity:    5
Supporting Justice:    5
Community Engagement Types and Approaches    5
Community Building    6
Engaged Research    6
Community Organising    6
Community Education    6
Skills and Challenges of Volunteers as well as Workers in Community Engaged Services    7
Skills    7
Challenges    7
Benefits to Personal and Professional Employability as well as Self-Development    8
Conclusion    8
References    9
Executive Summary
This assignment focus on the importance of community engagement and the way it can be achieved. It involves the basics of community engagement, which includes what is community engagement, different types of community engagement and various skills that are required for achieving qualities of community engagement. There are many qualities that are needed to develop both personal and professional behaviour in order to achieve community engagement. All these qualities will further promotes employability and thus it is a nice topic to discuss. All basics will be discussed in this assignment so that it becomes easy to learn about the community engagement.
There are some main steps to achieve the community engagement, which are also called as the pillars of this engagement. These are making connections, behaving with humility, good level of understanding, maintaining dignity and supporting justice. Each of the main step is needed to develop in the behaviour and attitude so that the achievement of understanding the community engagement can be gained. All these main pillars will be discussed on brief in order to get a deep level of understanding of the topic. The theoretical and practical aspects will also be considered in this assignment so that the difference can be understood. The benefits of this will also be summarised to mark the importance of this study.
Discussion of Community Engagement Theory with Particular Reference to the Pillars of Community Engagement
The community engagement is an important topic and needed in today’s time. Firstly, it is needed that basic understanding of community engagement is provided so that understanding about it can become easy. Thus, its definition should be understood first in general. The community engagement is a procedure in which communication is done in a flexible way by understanding each other’s view of thinking and coming out with a positive solution in a community or group. It includes various steps or methods, which are necessary to build a good community engagement. There are main methods, also known as the pillars of community engagement, which are mentioned below:
· Making connections
· Behaving with humility
· Good level of understanding
· Maintaining dignity
· Supporting justice
All the pillars of community engagement are described so that one can know how to achieve community engagement objectives.
Making Connections:
Making connection refers to building connection with new people. Whenever people are in a community, they have to talk to people. If they do not talk then they will not be able to support in the matters of community or will not be able to give contribution of themselves in the community. Thus, it is needed that one should talk whenever they are in a group, which is also known as community. Now, the question is how to make new connections. It is very easy to make new connection. One can simply meet a person by a smile asking about them and then they can start a general conversation of any social background.
Behaving with Humility:
The humility is also a very important quality that one must possess in order to gain a high level of appreciation and bonding with community people that is people who are in groups. Humility can be defined as the humbleness, which means to be low. It is needed that the people should be humble while interacting with people in groups. As mentioned by Fitzgerald et al. (2016), it is because no one wants to feel low in front of others and when everyone in a group start showing themselves as a person with strong point of view then conflict will occur for sure. To prevent the conflicts, it is required that whenever one is in a group, then they should be humble. They should listen to the point of views of others also and then give theirs too. However, they should never try to show that their point is good only, and not of others, as otherwise quarrels can occur.
Good Level of Understanding:
There should be a good level of understanding to understand people. Many people do not try to listen to others view and keep on telling that they are right. This is really a stupid act. One must be humble and try to understand others point of view also so that when they tell theirs then community will listen them...