Advancing Racial Equity through

Community Engagement in

Collective Impact

April 30, 2015

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

info@strivepartnership.rog 513.929.1145 @StriveCincyNKY Strive Partnership

Nia Baucke

baucken@strivepartnership.org

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 CouncilJuniousw@urbanstrategies.org

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”

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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

Submit questions: – via twitter using hashtag #CEinCI– via GoTo Webinar using the Questions box

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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 jarias@livingcities.org or via twitter using hashtag #CEinCI.

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Closing Thoughts

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