PSAD 414 Developing the Local Stakeholder Community in Public Safety Administration
Explores community relations theory and explains why positive community perception is critical to operational effectiveness during a crisis event. Presents the executive-level core competency of facilitating community risk ownership and analyzes how differing governance structures affect community response. Students will gain the skills necessary to be effective communicators and educators to the public in times of crisis and in their daily role as public safety administrators.
Cross Listed Courses
N/A
Prerequisite
Admission to the Public Safety Administration BAS program
Offered
Fall, Spring
Outcomes
- Students will analyze that to be effective, public safety officials must engage and partner with trusted members of the community. Meaningful community engagement starts with recognizing the power and voices of the people who live in the community.
- Students will understand the importance of engaging the entire community when creating a needs assessment.
- Students will evaluate the benefits of including the complex and interconnected geographic, racial, socioeconomic, and associated identities within the population while developing a public safety model.
- Students will research how the private-sector community utilizes strategic and effective decisions regarding the recruitment and retention of personnel to guide organizational transformation.
- Students will explain how effective partnerships are essential for community-based solutions for advancing public safety equity by making it a shared vision and value, increasing the community’s capacity to shape outcomes, and fostering multi-sector collaboration.
- Students will associate how effective stakeholder engagement relies on strong leadership in selecting the right audience to participate in the group’s work.
Area of Study:
Career Education
Instructional Mode:
In-person