Resource Spotlight: Community Listening Sessions

It’s a new year! If you’re looking to make your community more livable in 2022, holding a community listening session is a great place to start. But how?

Focus groups and larger community listening sessions allow local leaders and livability teams to engage directly with residents and stakeholders to learn what they want and to identify and solve problems. Such gatherings enable the team to collect information from a cross-section of the community to guide planning and develop a broader base of support. For more information, AARP has produced a “how-to” guide for conducting a community session. Download your copy at https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/livable-communities/livable-documents/documents-2018/Book-2-Roadmap-To-Livability-Listening-21318-lr.pdf.