CENTERING RACIAL EQUITY

Why is this important?

Until we address Anti-Black Racism… (belief statements)

How racist issues impact communities beyond our black communities

Alive & Well Communities believes that there is no way to honestly address trauma in communities without talking about equity. Individual trauma, community trauma, historical trauma, and systemic oppression all actively affect people of color and minoritized groups. This process is continuous and requires us to be open to growth. We hope that you will take the journey of becoming actively anti-racist together with us.

Anti-Black racism affects all of us because the changes that need to be made in order to dismantle the systems of white supremacy are actually one that would benefit the community as a whole.

We cannot address trauma or instances of trauma and not address race.

We have used Forward Through Ferguson’s Racial Equity Framework to begin to develop our own racial equity lens.

Letter from our president

Creating a Shared Understanding

We recognize that when people talk about around racial equity and anti-racism, sometimes it can sound like they’re speaking a different language. We want to help all of our stakeholders to really understand the language of racial equity so they could work with us to utilize it in our daily lives. Making this language common will make it easier to create the change we all want to see.

https://www.racialequitytools.org/glossary#

Partnerships

Violence Prevention Commission

BCR - link to the racial equity toolkit - historical context

Prepare STL - link to the battling two pandemics flyer

WashU Brown School of Social Work

Khatib Waheed LLC

HOW WE (ADDRESS/CENTER/WORK-TOWARDS) RACIAL EQUITY IN OUR WORK

  • Ambassadors

  • Community Consultants

  • Community Empowerment works

  • Community trauma awareness

  • Schools Work

  • Youth Ambassadors

  • Schools Safety

  • Steering Committee

  • Trainings

BLACK LIVES MATTER : HOW HISTORIC AND SYSTEMIC TRAUMA HAVE CREATED COMMUNITIES THAT NEED HEALING

  • Ferguson Commission Report

  • For the sake of All Report

  • Videos from Von’s email - history of structural racism

LEARN MORE ABOUT MAJOR ISSUES DEBATED RIGHT NOW

blurb about - not whether or not we support them - they imact the commmunities historical truama/structural racism (how etc.)

https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/

  • Reparations

    • Ta-Nehisi Coates Youtube videos

  • Campaign also known as “Defund the police”

  • medicaid expansion

What we’re doing:

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RESOURCES

  • Reading List

  • Learn more at these websites