1. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CiKeithia Pugh & Hayden Bass, Seattle Public Library

2. Workshop goals  Increased knowledge of what inclusive community engagement means  Understand their importance in your day to day work in the library  Increased knowledge of best practices  Gain knowledge to support future work engaging communities

3. Why do this work?

4. Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California (USC)

6. People living in poverty in WA Source: WA Office of Financial Management

7. Homeless population One-third of WA homeless live in rural areas 30,609 Source: Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2013

8. Equality & equity

9. Key terms  Community analysis  Marketing  Outreach  Community partnerships  Community engagement  Equity

11. World Language Story Time

12. Seattle Youth Employment Program

13. Coalition work

14. New Horizons

15. Table discussion What are your library’s internal resources and assets? How might they help you work with community partners?

16. Action plan  Who is not at your library?  Where are they? Who is already working with them?  What is your approach?  What can you influence?  What can you change to make community engagement possible at your library in the short term? Long term?

17. Thank you! Questions? Comments? Cikeithia.Pugh@spl.org Hayden.Bass@spl.org