{"id":134,"date":"2024-04-27T16:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2024-08-19T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T00:11:03","slug":"6-2-community-engagements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/core-competencies\/competency-six-engage-with-individuals-families-groups-organizations-and-communities\/6-2-community-engagements\/","title":{"rendered":"6.2 Engage with systems utilizing evidence-based practice strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <strong>engaged<\/strong> with community members and organizations while with the American Red Cross concerning fire safety and disaster preparedness. While working with the HAM Radio Club, I was engaged with community members as an educator, teaching evacuation plans and fire safety. This allowed me to use my <strong>active listening skills<\/strong> and<strong> paraphrasing<\/strong> to ensure I <strong>understood<\/strong> their concerns and could successfully help them formulate a plan. I also had the opportunity to educate elementary school children, older adults, and deaf and hard-of-hearing community members. While working with the deaf and hard of hearing, I had the experience of using an interpreter for the first time. I had to be <strong>conscious of my bias<\/strong> to ensure I <strong>focused<\/strong> on the community members instead of the interpreter.\u00a0 I successfully <strong>taught<\/strong> an <strong>engaging and informative<\/strong> preparedness class by treating everyone in attendance with <strong>respec<\/strong>t.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-202\" src=\"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/Pillowcase-Project-289x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/Pillowcase-Project-289x300.jpeg 289w, https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/Pillowcase-Project-985x1024.jpeg 985w, https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/Pillowcase-Project-768x798.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/Pillowcase-Project-1478x1536.jpeg 1478w, https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/Pillowcase-Project.jpeg 1687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_7399-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_7399-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_7399-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_7399-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_7399-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/files\/2024\/08\/IMG_7399-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I engaged with community members and organizations while with the American Red Cross concerning fire safety and disaster preparedness. While working with the HAM Radio Club, I was engaged with community members as an educator, teaching evacuation plans and fire safety. This allowed me to use my active listening skills and paraphrasing to ensure I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions\/600"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swpro.org\/angelasparks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}