Ultimately community engagement and support is crucial to gaining desirable social and environmental outcomes.  We are experienced in a range of methodologies and tools for facilitating community engagement and can tailor engagement strategies to suit the needs of different projects and different community and environmental contexts.

JSA has a team of facilitators and community consultation experts skilled at various methods of engaging local communities including:

• traditional surveys
• media campaigns
• focus groups
• community meetings andevents
• stakeholder forums

JSA specialises in innovative methods of engagement with disadvantaged, culturally and linguistically diverse, and Indigenous communities as demonstrated by our work with communities on the renewal of the Bonnyrigg and Minto Public Housing Estates in southwest Sydney.

• Bonnyrigg Phase 1 Community Engagement
• Bonnyrigg Phase 2 Community Engagement
• Leaving Minto
• What a Difference Participation Makes - Learning from the Minto Redevelopment

JSA also specialises in community consultation around Affordable Housing issues, strategies and projects.  Recent work includes:

• A community consultation program for the Byron Shire Council Draft Affordable Housing Strategy that included the preparation of information materials, media releases, and a series of information stalls and presentations in towns across the Shire. 

• An outdoor community consultation event on-site for a potential Affordable Housing Development on Council-owned land in Mullumbimby for Byron Shire Council designed with different activities and questions to engage participants with possibilities for the design of the future affordable housing development. 

In addition, JSA can develop high quality educational resources.  In the past, JSA has developed law courses and materials for universities in the areas of Introductory Law, the Philosophy of Law, Business Law, and Cross-Cultural Communication and Gender Issues. 

I Tried to Tell Them is a 50-minute educational video researched, scripted and directed by Dr Stubbs under a grant from the Federal Attorney General's Department as part of the Cross Cultural Communications and the Law Series (Runner up in the Australian Newspaper's Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing, 2000). The video examines difficulties faced by Aboriginal people in the NSW Criminal Justice System in relation to cultural/communication barriers, and has been used as a training tool in most Australian Law Faculties, as well as by the NSW and Family Law Court Judiciary. Click here for more information.