Community Outreach

A well-coordinated, thoughtful, outreach program can save time and money by building community confidence in decision-making.  Effective outreach plays a vital role in soliciting and relaying information, promoting constructive discourse, developing community objectives, and reaching consensus.  Planwest works with communities and agencies to clarify local issues and concerns in order to improve and advance the planning process.  We use innovative, context sensitive approaches to effectively engage the public.  Planwest community outreach services include:

  • Community workshop process design
  • Certified small and large group meeting facilitators
  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Focus group recruitment and facilitation
  • Communication services
  • Survey research
  • Meeting recording
  • Community visioning