Community Engagement

About the community engagement Program

Our Community Engagement Program directs our best practices for community engagement. Our engagement is focused on building meaningful relationships with diverse communities across Puget Sound that are most affected by environmental injustices. This work is essential to our agency because it allows for community solutions to shape our agency’s direction, policies, and programs.

Are you interested in learning more about our community engagement work or collaborating with us on a community engagement project? Are you a community leader or community-based organization looking for assistance or opportunities to share feedback on our work? Please reach out to our Community Engagement Coordinator.

Community Engagement Guide

The environmental justice law (SB 5141) known as the Healthy Environment for All Act (HEAL), passed in 2021. Part of this law requires our agency (and six others)  to create and adopt community engagement plans.

The community engagement plan that Puget Sound Partnership uses is called the Community Engagement Guide. We call it a guide rather than a plan because this document is designed to help staff walk through their own unique community engagement processes.

The guide includes:

• Context about how our agency approaches community engagement work.
• An eight-step process for community engagement.
• An accompanying “Toolkit” of worksheets to support staff as they design, conduct, and report about community engagement work.
• Helpful resources.

Last updated: 04/27/26