Resources and case stories to help ensure that participation in public engagement efforts more fully reflect the demographics of your community.
This includes information about the involvement of youth and of immigrant residents, as well as how to work more effectively with clergy and congregations.
Resources and case stories about how working relationships between local officials and clergy/ congregations can deepen and diversify public engagement and extend local agency outreach.
Resources and case stories to help local officials in California successfully engage and integrate immigrant residents into the civic and public life of their communities. Also see information about pathways for legal permanent residents to achieve U.S. citizenship, and strategies for local officials to support these citizenship efforts and to engage new citizens in their community.
Resources and case stories to help local officials and staff develop and maintain effective youth commissions and to engage youth in the civic and public life of their communities.
See the Best Practices and Resources section below for a roster of youth commissions, a set of briefing papers to guide youth commission activities, various publications to help guide youth commission development, sample youth commission charter and examples of youth master plans.
See the California Stories section below for stories of youth commissions and other youth engagement activities and accomplishments. See the Stories from Beyond California section for outstanding stories of youth commissions and engagement outside of California.
Also see pods at right to link directly to the roster of California youth commissions and to the set of present Youth Commission Briefing Papers.
Resources and case stories to help local agencies inform residents about local government and civics, develop community leadership and participation, and create effective citizen academies.
