Whose Voice?
In today's world, developing and nurturing vibrant and trusting relationships with the people you serve is critical.
Not only is it expected by the people you serve, it's also necessary to engage the staff providing the services, and the wider community and stakeholders. In many cases, it is also legislatively mandated.
But it's much more than just bringing a token voice or two to the table. People have varied interests, needs, capacities and life experiences. Savvy leadership welcomes and uses broad-based input to develop effective programs, policies and services.
Advancing Voices offer professional consultation that can help you find the experts, and build and maintain the strong relationships necessary to authentic citizen engagement.
“Citizenship is more than an individual exchange of freedoms for rights; it is also membership in a body politic, a nation, and a community. To be deemed fair, a system must offer its citizens equal opportunities for public recognition, and groups cannot systematically suffer from misrecognition in the form of stereotype and stigma.”
― Melissa V. Harris-Perry, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America