Flexible activity
This activity encourages young people to extend their social network and interact with, and give back to, prosocial individuals in their local community. Community engagement can include community service projects, engagement with local community members, or with family and other support networks. It can also include program delivery by local professionals in the community and referral to services in the community.
It is important for young people to be able to interact with prosocial individuals in their lives. Community engagement activities facilitate broader connections with individuals outside of a young person’s immediate remit such as members of local communities and local professionals. Additionally, this activity can help strengthen existing relationships with support and family networks.
Community engagement can be facilitated in a number of ways:
This flexible activity has been implemented with a number of different target groups. Key characteristics include:
24 Nov 2022
We acknowledge Aboriginal people as the First Nations Peoples of NSW and pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future.
Informed by lessons of the past, Department of Communities and Justice is improving how we work with Aboriginal people and communities. We listen and learn from the knowledge, strength and resilience of Stolen Generations Survivors, Aboriginal Elders and Aboriginal communities.
You can access our apology to the Stolen Generations.