advancing racial equity through community engagement in collective impact
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Today’s Agenda
1. Welcome & Overview
2. Panelists
a. Kirsten Wysen, Public Health-Seattle & King County
b. Dr. Frank Mirabal, Office of Mayor Richard Berry, City of Albuquerque
c. Nia Baucke, Strive Partnership (Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky)
d. Junious Williams, Urban Strategies Council (Oakland, CA)
3. Question & Answer
4. What Next?
5. Closing Thoughts
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
Panelists
Junious WilliamsUrban Strategies
Council
Dr. Frank MirabalOffice of Mayor
Richard Berry, City of Albuquerque
Kirsten Wysen Public Health-Seattle & King
County
Nia BauckeStrive Partnership
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
Today’s Agenda
1. Welcome & Overview
2. Panelists
a. Kirsten Wysen, Public Health-Seattle & King County
b. Dr. Frank Mirabal, Office of Mayor Richard Berry, City of Albuquerque
c. Nia Baucke, Strive Partnership (Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky)
d. Junious Williams, Urban Strategies Council (Oakland, CA)
3. Question & Answer
4. What Next?
5. Closing Thoughts
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
Join the conversation on Twitter using hashtag
#CEinCI
Kirsten Wysen Public Health-Seattle & King
County @wysenk
Nia BauckeStrive Partnership
@_nianicole
Dr. Frank MirabalOffice of Mayor Richard Berry, City
of Albuquerque @FrankMirabal
Junious WilliamsUrban Strategies Council
@JuniousWilliams
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
Panelists
1. Kirsten Wysen, Public Health-Seattle & King County
2. Dr. Frank Mirabal, Office of Mayor Richard Berry, City of Albuquerque
3. Nia Baucke, Strive Partnership (Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky)
4. Junious Williams, Urban Strategies Council (Oakland, CA)
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
Panelists
1. Kirsten Wysen, Public Health-Seattle & King County
2. Dr. Frank Mirabal, Office of Mayor Richard Berry, City of Albuquerque
3. Nia Baucke, Strive Partnership (Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky)
4. Junious Williams, Urban Strategies Council (Oakland, CA)
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
Who are you and your organization?
To protect and improve the health and well-being of all people in King County by increasing the number of healthy years that people live and eliminating health disparities. • 1,300 employees, 40 sites, budget of $300 million.• Serves 2.0 million people, with over 100 languages , and 30 million visitors annually. 1. Protect the public from threats to their health—tuberculosis, HIV, air, water quality2. Promote better health—healthy eating, active living, injury prevention 3. Assure that people are provided with accessible, quality health care—partnerships,
research, services
Kirsten Wysen, MHSAProject ManagerCommunities of Opportunity
How do you currently engage with communities in your Collective Impact work?
1. Place-based work, local cross-sector partnership, community driven
2. Countywide Governance Group for policy/systems changes and to shape and decide on funding
We are desperately trying to move from “involve” to “collaborate” in the IA2P spectrum
www.kingcounty.gov/elected/executive/health-human-services-transformation/coo.aspx
In what ways have you tried to advance equity through your CI work?
Determinants of Equity Report, Jan 2015
1. King County Equity and Social Justice framework
2. Data and maps3. Relationships4. Continual training and practice
www.kingcounty.gov/equity
What lessons have you learned? What are the current challenges and opportunities?
1. Go slow to go fast2. “Typical social sector mindset and behavior has it backwards.
It is not about pre-determined solutions and emergent interactions and relationships; It is about pre-determined interactions and the relationships and solutions that will emerge.”
--John Kania, FSG, October 2014, Tamarack Collective Impact Summit, Toronto
3. Food4. Change happens at the speed of
trust
A new metric for community engagement: • # of meals, # of beers, # of cups of tea shared
What advice do you have for other collective impact practitioners interested in partnering with communities to advance racial equity?
www.equitymattersnw.com
1. It takes time2. It isn’t free3. It’s fun4. It’s necessary5. The food is good6. Framing is important7. It takes practice
Panelists
1. Kirsten Wysen, Public Health-Seattle & King County
2. Dr. Frank Mirabal, Office of Mayor Richard Berry, City of Albuquerque
3. Nia Baucke, Strive Partnership (Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky)
4. Junious Williams, Urban Strategies Council (Oakland, CA)
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
Frank Mirabal, Ph.DDirector of Collective Impact
Office of the Mayor, Richard J. Berry City of Albuquerque
Meet people where they are
Cross-sector partnerships
Several vertebrae make-up “backbone”
Data Informed
Collective Impact WorkCity of Albuquerque
MBK Communities Challenge: Head, Heart, Hands
Creating Community Solutions: Deliberative Dialogue
Living Cities The Integration Initiative: 90-day cycles
Plan for Prosperity: Set-up system to disaggregate community data based on socioeconomic indicators
Small Business Deep Dives: Open-sourcing government
How we engage communities: Focus on Equity
Youth-voice is critical Race equity frame will only take you so far It’s easier to work in silos, but more
sustainable working collectively Ethos of “give before you get”
Lessons Learned
Always ask “who is missing from the table?” Make sure you “get back” to communities Integrate feedback into policy, programs,
partnerships Keep the conversation going!
Advice
Panelists
1. Kirsten Wysen, Public Health-Seattle & King County
2. Dr. Frank Mirabal, Office of Mayor Richard Berry, City of Albuquerque
3. Nia Baucke, Strive Partnership (Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky)
4. Junious Williams, Urban Strategies Council (Oakland, CA)
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
Excellence with Equity
Nia BauckeCommunication & Community Engagement Coordinator
The StrivePartnership
One West Fourth Street,#200
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Every ChildEvery Step of the WayCradle to Career
A subsidiary of
@StriveCincyNKY
strivepartnership.org
Engaging Communities
Engaging stakeholders: Using the Strive
Partnership Annual Report as a
launching pad for community
discussion.
Engaging partners: Building the capacity
of partners around continuous
improvement
Engaging the broader community:
Identifying clear calls to action for
partners and community members (“Cincinnati Preschool Promise” and
#readorpie).
@StriveCincyNKY
• Disaggregating data.
• Finding out “what’s working.”
(Glenn O. Swing Elementary)
• Incorporating an equity lens in our
collaborative efforts
(“The Persistence Project”).
Incorporating Equity
@StriveCincyNKY
• Getting every staff member, facilitator,
and leadership to adopt an equity lens.
• Identifying the “right” individuals to
convene.
• We have disaggregated data. Now what?
• Identifying what works.
This is really hard work.
Challenges
• Rebuild trust with stakeholders and within the
community.
• Establishing a new standard of how to approach
work.
(Immediately asking questions about marginalized groups).
• Targeted action with targeted data.
Opportunities
@StriveCincyNKY
Excellence with Equity
• Examine your table. Are there individuals at the table that have a decision making role? Have you assembled a table based on tokenism?
• Equity is a collective responsibility. It is the role of the entire collaborative to view all work through an equity lens?
• Develop a clear understanding • This work takes time, and that’s ok.
@StriveCincyNKY
Download Our 2014-15 Partnership Report
http://bit.ly/1GAYOKU
[email protected] 513.929.1145 @StriveCincyNKY Strive Partnership
Nia Baucke
513.929.1329
Panelists
1. Kirsten Wysen, Public Health-Seattle & King County
2. Dr. Frank Mirabal, Office of Mayor Richard Berry, City of Albuquerque
3. Nia Baucke, Strive Partnership (Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky)
4. Junious Williams, Urban Strategies Council (Oakland, CA)
#CEinCI@Living_Cities
April 30, 2015Presentation by: Junious Williams, CEO
Urban Strategies [email protected]
www.urbanstrategies.org
“BRINGING TOGETHER PEOPLE AND DATA FOR EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE”
Living Cities’ E-Course on Community Engagement in Collective Impact
Working with Communities to Advance Racial Equity and Eliminate Disparities
Urban Strategies Council…
• Our mission is to eliminate persistent poverty by working with partners to build vibrant, healthy communities
• We use tools of equity-focused data and policy analysis, collaboration and advocacy
“Bringing together people and data for equity and social justice”
Community Engagement Methods
Governance Structure Composition Extended Governance Structure Example: Opportunity Youth Incentive FundSteering Committee of Public Agencies,
Community Based Organizations, Young Adult Leaders
Program Work Group - Public Agencies, Community Based Organizations, Young Adult Leaders, Open to Volunteer Members
Young Adult Leadership Work Group - nominated by Steering Committee and Program Work Group members and stipended
Methods for Advancing Equity
• Data-Driven Equity Model - structural model
• Equity analysis broader than race • john powell’s Targeted
Universalism approach• Example: Boys and Men of Color
culturally-focused manhood development work
Lessons, Opportunities & Challenges
• Need more methods to engage broader community in collective impact work
• Need to engage base-building groups (organizers) in collective impact work to address power issues
• Need to convince people that goal of equality can only be achieved through the practice of equity
• Strike balance between hearts and mind interventions and structural, policy interventions
• Keep focus on reducing disparities and improving outcomes for all
• Find an “early, tough” equity win
Advice to Practitioners on Advancing Equity
For More Information
• Data Driven Equity Model
http://www.urbanstrategies.org/equity/#.VTpyFZPrXSc
• Culturally-Focused Manhood Development
http://www.urbanstrategies.org/bmoc/culturallyrooted.php
• Boys and Men of Color
http://www.urbanstrategies.org/bmoc/index.php
• Targeted Universalism
http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/facpubs/1633
Facilitated Q&A
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Now what?
Complete one of the following statements:• One way I can use what I’ve learned today is….• One step I can take to practice what I’ve learned today
is…
Submit action statement via email to [email protected] or via twitter using hashtag #CEinCI.
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