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The Civic Engagement project for Children & Families

FIRST 5 Association of California

Tools & Resources

Community Outreach Video Toolkit

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About the Video Toolkit

Each Community Outreach Video Toolkit is a collection of five short videos that illustrate the benefits and impacts of civic engagement on communities and First 5 Commissions. The videos highlight personal stories and examples of how community participation has supported the success of Prop. 10 work in CEP partner counties. These short videos reflect stories from a broad diversity of linguistic, cultural, and geographic communities, as well as a diversity of civic engagement approaches. Each story is compelling and unique.

The Community Outreach Video Toolkit can be used in many ways by First 5 Commissions, Staff and Community Outreach Workers.

Ideas for using the Community Outreach Video Toolkit:

  • Inspire community members and volunteers
  • Help build partnerships with community organizations and neighborhood groups
  • Show examples of community leaders making a difference
  • Recruit volunteers, parents and community leaders to get involved
  • Orient new Commissioners and staff
  • Facilitate community outreach
  • Begin discussions
  • Your idea...

Each CEP Community Outreach Video Toolkit contains:

  • Four separate community leader videos
     Four 5- to 7-minute video stories profiling a community/parent leader. Each of these short videos tells a different story. (Bilingual: English/Spanish)
    »View clips from the videos
  • One 17-minute video providing an overview of CEP and the benefits of civic engagement. (This video targets Staff, Commissioners and Funders. It is English only.)
  • Four separate one-page “Video Discussion Guides”
    One “Video Discussion Guide” corresponds to each of the four community leader videos. Each “Video Discussion Guide” has topical points for discussion and questions that support Outreach Workers in facilitating a group discussion on community engagement.
    » Download video discussion guides
  • A 3.5-inch computer diskette with all four “Discussion Guides” in Microsoft Word. Use the diskette to revise the “Discussion Guide” handouts so they meet the particular goals of your community’s work.

» Borrow the Video Toolkit

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