Find the key to help you engage residents and manage issues more effectively; create a brighter future for your community and your staff.

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Community Problem Solving

We combine mediation, facilitation and restorative practice to create robust processes that work amidst challenging situations while helping all parties to be informed and involved, as they wish. Our expertise in both in-person techniques and online tools will provide an asset to your team for obtaining, recording and managing many layers of community input; enabling you to create more effective systems and processes.

Set Up Consultation

How Can We Help?

 

Project Management

So many projects, such busy staff…

Invite us in as a contract or short-term project management aid to move things along more quickly and focused. Rely on our experience to conduct the research you need, involve the community as they wish and produce results that will satisfy everyone involved. We excel at pulling all the pieces together into a package that works.

Facilitation

A third party neutral helps in every discussion…

Be it an internal process or a community-based conversation, we can assist with pre and post interviews, inclusion of innovative conflict resolution strategies, agenda design, and the addition of creative process to enhance your outcomes—all while creating an environment where all parties feel included and able to provide input.

Program Design

We can take your ideas (and needs) to fruition…

Having created long-lasting programs that range from police mediation and restorative justice to neighborhood block parties and community summits, we are a great resource to listen to organizational and community ideas and build a prototype design, or two, for testing. We understand local government and community needs. Try us.

 
 

Unlocking Government exists to help local governments (and quasi-governmental entities) to identify and modify barriers, bad habits and perpetual hang-ups that lead to organizational and community frustration. We can unlock your potential to better lead your communities by educating your team on how to build inclusive and comprehensive community engagement practice.

The Intersection of Organizational Development and Community Engagement

Given the attention on police services across the United States, there is perhaps no other entity that stands to gain more from increased community engagement and public involvement. Amanda has a decade of experience in law enforcement and understands the issues from an internal perspective. Unlocking Government can assist departments in those efforts by helping you create a restorative, online environment to share your story, explain your services and engage the public you serve in pro-active, meaningful dialogue.

“Going through a strategic training process as a part of our approach to creating community engagement practice and policy revolutionized what we do and how we do it.”

— Alison Ream, Communications Director, City of Cedar Hill, Texas