Synopsis
This engagement plan addresses a difficult institutional question: how a domestic-violence and human-trafficking coalition can work with bars, breweries, wineries, clubs, and other alcohol-serving venues without minimizing the relationship between alcohol, violence, exploitation, and public harm. The plan treats the issue as a deliberative design problem rather than a simple communications dispute.
The problem it responds to
Nightlife venues are both potential partners in prevention and fundraising and spaces historically implicated in risk, trafficking, alcohol-related harm, and survivor concern. Different stakeholders carry valid but competing interpretations of institutional responsibility.
What the work contributes
- Maps relevant stakeholders, concerns, public context, and facilitation capacity.
- Frames the priority question as how engagement should occur rather than whether disagreement exists.
- Defines evaluation measures around opinion change, understanding, commitment, and perceived discussion quality.
- Connects academic public-participation theory to a live organizational decision.
Development
- Written as a complete citizen-engagement plan.
- Related to the operational development of Raise the Bar.
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