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CRIS is proud to have enabled a report which demonstrates that community-led truth-telling initiatives have contributed to a considerable shift in the national narrative about Australia’s history, including a growing recognition of the frontier violence that accompanied colonisation. The Recognising Community Truth-Telling: An Exploration of Local Truth-Telling report is based on a unique collaborative study with Reconciliation Australia documenting grassroots community truth-telling in Australia. Dr Vanessa Barolsky, the report’s lead author, said local communities across Australia had shown significant leadership in driving processes for truth-telling. “The majority of the work has been led by First Nations communities and has required sustained effort over many years, often with few resources. This is an exceptional achievement” Dr Barolsky said. “However, there is still much work to do, with many critical historical events and First Nations achievements remaining substantially unrecognised.” Thanks to the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and Reconciliation Australia for helping us develop and launch the report! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gJ8Ng-9E

Good-morning. We live in an interdependent world where the contribution provided by every member in society is crucial for a well-functioning community.

Today is World Day of Social Justice, reminding us we need to build fairer, more equitable societies. Literacy is a fundamental human right, and everyone should have access to the support they need to participate fully in society. #ILO #WorldDayofSocialJustice #UNInternationalDays United Nations

Enjoyed hearing important and timely contributions in place-based research-policy (and practice!)-community relationships from our roundtable panel given rise in child poverty and persistent health and wellbeing inequalities. Some key lessons for us on: 1. how can community research and research dialogue be better valued and resourced; 2. how partnerships can ben sustained through investments in regional and national knowledge-exchange infrastructures from Sarah Chaytor and Peter O'Brien; and 3. how to involve community researchers to bring evidence to life and to highlight how impactful research can change lives from Professor Sally Pearse, Jacob Coburn and Tania Carregha

Strengthening Community Associations: The Vital Role of a Comprehensive Assessment Recovery Policy and Procedure #condo #HOA #assessment #collections #assessmentrecovery #collectionpolicy #kamancus Read the full blog at: https://lnkd.in/eCUNkrMd

The US federal government has started integrating “community engagement” requirements in its own funding calls. It is a smart move which others could learn from, but only if action is taken on the findings. The “Build Back Better” programme, passed as part of the American Rescue Plan, is a prime example. In deciding its funding allocations, Build Back Better evaluates how “residents and community leadership will be engaged throughout,” meaning that states need to have in place structured processes for mapping and engaging residents and collecting impact data that enables evaluation. For example, research found that food insecurity was a top stressor for Brownsville residents, so the team tapped into networks to bring in food service providers, researchers and urban farmers all from within the community to think about how to address the issue. #inclusionmatters #socialimpact #embeddingsocialgood

Many of the World’s most urgent crises now require more profound and broader collective community-centred responses. Societies can only flourish or even endure with active citizens and their associations. Institutions shore up these fundamental civil pillars but can never replace them without causing harm. Sadly, the response-ability of the many is continually falling on the shoulders of the few. Whether we consider the “few” to be good actors or bad, there is a gateway crisis that underpins all other crises: citizenship is in retreat, and our shared social fabric is being systemically undermined when we need it most. This begs the question: how can we return citizens and their associations to the centre of democracy as the key actors in our troubled times?