Reflection Blog - Josey

During the course of this challenge project I struggled quite a bit trying to come up with a way to engage with the community. At first I felt like I had all these great ideas where I was going to go help out at parks and be really encouraging to the community and everything was going to be super great. Unfortunately everything did not go exactly as planned. There were two main challenges I faced while working on my project. The first was getting into contact with people. I tried calling and emailing many times and would either not get a response, or would be told someone would try to get into contact with me, but never did. This was frustrating but I was extremely grateful for the two interviews I got and think they both gave me a good perspective. The second challenge I faced was trying to find a way to engage with people and encourage them to use the parks, while at the same time making sure everyone was still social distancing and not spreading the coronavirus. I decided on an infographic because they are effective ways of getting information accross and I realized I could put everything I wanted to share in different sections that would be easy to read and understand. 
I think long term I will always be encouraging people to go to parks and to get outdoors. Now that I know even more about all the benefits they provide I want other people to be able to experience those as well. I will be trying to send my infographic to lots more people and just see if I can spread it and even just encourage people to go for a walk. As I learned through my project civic engagement can be challenging and daunting. It can be difficult to come up with creative ways to engage and to work around obstacles that appear. I think civic engagement is very important for many reasons. It can help teach people about problems that they might not have become aware of otherwise, and it can also make people more likely to take action against a problem when it is coming from a civic level, or from someone they know and trust. Having a connection through a community or a city can make trying to solve a project more appealing and generate a bigger response from the community. This can also happen on a larger scale, and often things like this do begin as a community and more awarness is continued to be raised until it is a cause many more people are joining. 

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