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Engaging with communities of color via partnerships or programming

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Become a better ally. Learn how to be an effective ally.

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-bring more perspectives inward and outward
- be a supporting voice rather than a dominating voice - what partnerships do we have now and what can we bolster?
-actively work on projects to fill gaps

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A better understanding of our community – talking/ listening sessions but being sensitive to this work already being completed by some other similar envlt orgs in the past / recently in our basin.

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-individual perceptions of the watershed; how the various organizations work and who interacts with the organizations - be more involved in the community to increase diverse input
-demographics of who have been working with (and not)
-understanding what the various groups want-what is important to them
-better understanding the barriers marginalized communities have, and helping meet the needs that are important to them

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-some of the work may not be as narrow in focus-we would expand
-our work would resonate with more people
-measures defined to determine if we are meeting goals

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The WC would have a community engagement specialist in the future to be leading relationship building efforts but being careful to keep all WC members active in this work in implementing the action plan.

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Tribal community engagement. Is there a better way to approach this than how the WC has been engaging with these partners to date?

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Insecurity/Feelings of Awkwardness.

I think the council forum can be intimidating for folks not a part of a gov't agency or without an established link to an environmental organization.

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Most of our project work happens in the headwaters on private land ownership and/or industrial timberlands. This makes it difficult to connect with urban community members or tie them in to the work. Equity and justice can feel distant during these efforts.

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Learn more about the cultures we deal with and their history

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Learn more about the cultures we deal with and their history

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Language barriers are very prominent. It can be difficult to  have open and candid discussions.

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Language barriers are very prominent. It can be difficult to  have open and candid discussions.

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A lack of clarity on purpose-what is our role as the TRWC? Should it be different? Are we leading with DEIJ, incorporating DEIJ or something else, or all?

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As we think about doing something with, rather than for, and broaden our culture we will need to be open to new perspectives. Being open and accepting will likely mean change for us as well. Change can create discomfort

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Build more relationships with diverse community members.

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Build more relationships with diverse community members.

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Get out to more diverse cultural events.

Have board members attend diverse cultural events.

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Better idea of how to improve our strategic plan, and programs to achieve it

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Better idea of how to improve our strategic plan, and programs to achieve it

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Who lives in the watershed.  What are all of the different cultures.  What do they know about the river and their drinking water.

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Who lives in the watershed.  What are all of the different cultures.  What do they know about the river and their drinking water.

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There may be a disconnect because we may have not asked the communities' about what they value before we developed our values and priorities. We did the work internally without an external voice?

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Informed Action can be used to engage community members we have not historically interacted with.

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I think organizations are structured to look at things big picture. But many people are feeling individualized impacts of different activities or decisions in the watershed. Connecting those and recognizing how individual experiences play into the larger picture is important.

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I think organizations are structured to look at things big picture. But many people are feeling individualized impacts of different activities or decisions in the watershed. Connecting those and recognizing how individual experiences play into the larger picture is important.

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Openness to change purpose/mission/values/projects...etc to reflect a more DEIJ mindset.

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Invest time in building relationships, even beyond the organization, but also personally.

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Invest time in building relationships, even beyond the organization, but also personally.

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As an organization I think we value a sense of volunteerism and stewardship of our shared natural resources. This could pose a future barrier to access any field-based events for communities that don’t have time, access to transportation etc. Also, in the urban areas where many diverse community members live, work and play, waterways are sometimes difficult and dangerous to access and many streams are piped into culverts, making waterways a challenging thing to see and experience. Clean, healthy urban streams (and waterways in general) may not be valued if they are not readily tangible in a day to day lived experience.

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The watershed council works on restoring habitats for species such as salmon, steelhead and lamprey that may not resonate as important to communities that are not from the PNW.  Does this matter, or how can we engage in a meaningful way with diverse communities.

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The watershed council works on restoring habitats for species such as salmon, steelhead and lamprey that may not resonate as important to communities that are not from the PNW.  Does this matter, or how can we engage in a meaningful way with diverse communities.

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Taking time to slow down and set aside time to get to know each other in meetings is a new concept, and one that should happen intentionally to build trust in future relationship building work.

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Watershed Council funding has been based on benefits to salmon/steelhead. If this is of little importance to Tualatin basin residents, do we pivot our organization away from this focus?

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Board members represent organizations and industries. We are focusing on how to better connect with cultural groups, but no matter how diverse our Board is, organization/industry representation does not equal cultural representation.