Community engagement
RMAPI utilizes a community-driven process where those with lived and living experiences of poverty equitably and actively participate in decision-making processes in Rochester and Monroe County.
RMAPI Community Engagement
RMAPI is a community-driven process where those with lived and are living the experiences of poverty have voice and choice to equitably and actively participate in RMAPI collective decision making so that Rochester and Monroe County has less people living in poverty and more people living self-determined lives.
In order to promote upward mobility in Rochester, we need active community engagement from both Content Experts and Context Experts.
Content Experts refers to the community of professionals, staff in organizations, service providers, and leaders with formal power who have knowledge, tools, and resources to address the issue.
Context Experts are community members with the lived experience. They are the people who experientially know about the issues RMAPI is working to solve.
COMMUNITY COHORTS
The Single Female Head of Household cohort
The Single Female Head of Household cohort has been building and increasing community capacity to participate in RMAPI collective decision making. The group is made up of mothers in the Rochester community, hoping to advocate on behalf of their families, and for themselves.
We are actively recruiting for a few new members for our Single Mother’s Cohort. Please fill out the attached application and we will be in touch soon.
Community Advisory Council
Community Advisory Council (CAC) is a group of highly engaged community residents involved in the decision-making, priority-setting, and advocacy of community-based decisions that impact City and County residents’ social and economic well-being. Community can be a physical place or it can be the group or “community” you may represent (youth, impacted incarcerated, etc.).
This Council will build and increase RMAPI’s community capacity to participate in RMAPI collective decision making. Members of the Council will help with the following: