A Reflection on Community Engagement Placement

Running head: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLACEMENT
A Reflection on Community Engagement Placement
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Executive summary
The main purpose of this report is to understand community engagement with the help of food-
aid services by firms such as Foodbank warehouse in this report. The paper with the help of my
experience of working as a volunteer and with reference to journals and websites articles discuss
a few important things regarding food-aid services. Food-aid services as found in this report
addresses the issue but not to its causes. Additionally, it also does not provide an utmost support
to the needy people.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
2. The experience of an engagement with people during the placement.........................................3
3. The purpose: the kinds of disadvantage observed, and/or the client needs addressing during the
placement.........................................................................................................................................4
4. Aligning the community engagement theory with the practice...................................................5
5. Recommendations for improving community engagement in the Placement Organization.......6
6. Reflection on your own values, assumptions and attitudes and the skills developed through
the placement...................................................................................................................................7
7. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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1. Introduction
Community engagement placement is a process through which agreed goals are achieved
by its stakeholders. The stakeholders of a community engagement are universities, the
community, and organizations that collaborate to fulfill their distinguished but agreed goals.
Universities send their staffs and students to work as volunteers to support a community with the
available resources. Organizations both multinational corporations and not-for-profit firms help
such organizations with foods, which are being supplied to the selected community group.
Community groups are the population of Australia that has no food (Acu.edu.au 2018). A
collaboration of this kind does not only provide the food to needful people but also provides a
learning opportunity to students and staffs of universities. These are also some real opportunities
that firms can utilize to become social entrepreneurs. The main purpose of this report is to
conduct a reflection of mine working as a volunteer with the Foodbank warehouse.
2. The experience of an engagement with people during the placement
The community that I engaged with while working as a volunteer is the selected
Australian population, which do not have sufficient food. In fact, a food crisis like Australia is a
global issue. The number of people facing food insecurity at some point in a year is close to
above 3.6 million in Australia (Foodbank 2018). Children make 27% of the stated figure
(Foodbank 2018). Additionally, the demands for food relief rises on an average at 10% every
year (Foodbank 2018).
Communities those that are prime targets of food relief campaigns are many. There are a
certain group of people in Australia that are relatively more susceptible to food insecurity such as
unemployed people, low-income earners, single-parent households, young people and rental