Step 1: Implement Outreach Plan

• Implement your plan, prioritizing outreach 
• Ensure targeted audiences are represented (authentically) within your plan
  • Double check with local leaders to ensure authentic voices are reached

Step 2: Implement Public Engagement Approach

• Execute your plan; ensure roles are clear adjust as appropriate
• Public Engagement Approach Template

Step 3: ‘Reality Check’

• Are there internal organizational ‘politics’ or challenges that have changed and need to be considered? 
• Check in with key community leaders on a regular basis to understand new or coming issues; mitigate accordingly 

Additional Resources

• Broadening Public Participation Using Online Engagement Tools 
• Dealing with Deeply Held Concerns and Other Challenges to the Public Engagement Process 
• Effective Public Engagement Through Strategic Communication 
• Increasing Access to Public Meeting and Events for People with Disabilities