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Environmental Justice Outreach
Environmental Justice, as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is:
(1) The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. (2) Potentially affected community residents are meaningfully involved in the decisions that will affect their environment and/or their health.
We harness the voice of under-represented populations and link progressive initiatives to create thriving, transformative win/win community alliances through:
Assisting Local Government
To mobilize stakeholder collaboration and public engagement plans.
Public Involvement
We help prepare and execute goals and objectives for outreach on the project
Educate and Communicate
We seek to provide essential and objective information for the public with regard to an issue, program, project plan, or study.
Establish
Open Dialogue
By providing a variety of effective approaches to share information and listen to stakeholders.
Build Relationships
To earn trust and acceptance within local communities by working with those who like, dislike, or want to modify a proposal.
Gather Timely Input
Before decisions are made, to ensure citizens have ample opportunity to share their knowledge, perceptions, concerns, and preferences in regard to a project.
Virtual Public
Engagement
Virtual Public Involvement
or VPI is the use of digital technology to engage individuals or to visualize projects and plans
We Remove Barriers
to using only traditional public involvement methods: Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams virtual technology platforms are used to help us reach as many populations as possible to obtain diverse viewpoints.
We Evaluate
stakeholder work, family and social schedules to provide options for virtual meetings. Modern expectations of today’s population Stakeholders and interested groups, including special populations such as the elderly, college students, business owners, or (EJ) Environmental Justice groups need flexibility for communication.
Stakeholder Outreach
PROVIDE
We provide strategic community planning efforts and gather public input toward guidelines and stakeholder outreach.
INFORM
To provide the public with impartial and objective information to assist them in understanding the situation, alternatives, opportunities, and/or solutions.
CONSULT
To obtain public feedback on analysis, alternatives, and/or decisions.
INVOLVE
To work directly with the public throughout the process to ensure that public concerns and aspirations are consistently understood and considered.
COLLABORATE
To partner with the public in each aspect of the decision including the development of alternatives and the identification of the preferred solution
EMPOWER
To place final decision making in the hands of the public.
Meeting Logistics
Public meetings are essential to the public involvement process because they introduce the project or issue to the community and allow stakeholders to provide input on the subject.
Meeting Facilitation & Building Alliances
Preparation and organization
are required before a meeting commences. We facilitate with excellence in meetings and have inclusive and supportive participation from all stakeholders. We’re leveraging active listening to measure involvement effectiveness toward goals.
We utilize carefully planned
and well-written comment card/forms to allow stakeholders to express their opinions and provide valuable feedback on projects.
Documentation & Data Driven Advocacy
It is important to maintain current and detailed records for transportation projects. We provide Environmental Justice Outreach documentation and key milestones for federal and state-funded transportation projects. Our staff efficiently delivers important documents and demonstrates ongoing compliance with applicable public involvement requirements and the details provided in a project’s Public Involvement Plan (PIP).
Tate Analytics
As quantitative researchers we provide our clients with our Tate Atlas © to showcase that we are strategic in delivering organizational results “That work.” Our leadership competency-based assessments show the impact of our professional development curricula and provide the necessary evaluation metrics to ensure that you team is growing in their respective roles.
We are Myers Briggs and DiSC certified which is important to view learner influence, how they manage time, make decisions, approach problems. In sum, we can evaluate what they need to do to adapt to the styles of others to bring out the best in each and every employee in their charge.
NCDOT Pre-Qualified Firm
What makes our firm unique is that Tate brings leadership, skilled facilitation, curricula design, research, and strategy into community engagement excellence. In addition, we use a philosophy that brings winning collaborations across cultures and a community engagement philosophy that is focused on building trust.
What makes our firm unique is that Tate brings leadership, skilled facilitation, curricula design, research, and strategy into community engagement excellence. In addition, we use a philosophy that brings winning collaborations across cultures and a community engagement philosophy that is focused on building trust.
CODE #00079: Value Management Assessments, Guideline Improvements, Engineering Efficiency Insights, Best Demonstrated Practices
CODE #00171: Public Involvement Environmental Analysis
CAGE CODE: #7R2S1
NAICS CODES:
#611430 Professional
#541612 Human Resource Counseling
#611710 Educational Support Services
SOCIAL PROOF
Our Clients
Because of our expertise as qualitative and quantitative benchmark curricula designers, Tate has created and successfully demonstrated environmental justice practices. It is because of this; Tate has been selected by the North Carolina Department of Transportation for Public Involvement and Value Management.
Contact
1922 S. Martin Luther King Dr. Suite 242
Winston-Salem, NC 27127
336-464-3130 x 1242
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