Build your skills at the 2019 Annual Meeting- Register now for Advancing Racial Equity in Local Justice Reform Initiatives Pre-meeting!

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GARE Members: Build your skills at the 2019 Annual Meeting!

The 2019 GARE Membership Meeting is in Albuquerque April 16 to 18. This annual event is open only to members, so if your jurisdiction has been considering joining GARE, now is an opportune time. If you aren’t a member, there will be opportunities to participate in workshops on April 16^th. We are pleased to announce the latest, a new special workshop from the National League of Cities:

Advancing Racial Equity in Local Justice Reform Initiatives

A workshop for elected officials, judges, law enforcement leadership, and local leadership with interface and decision making authority regarding criminal justice related policy, practice, procedure, or initiatives.

Building upon a foundational understanding of the Government Alliance on Race and Equity framework, this workshop, will enable participants to explore the opportunities, challenges, and best practices for advancing racial equity through criminal justice focused policies, practices and initiatives. Specialists from National League of Cities ’ Race, Equity, and Leadership (REAL) and Justice Reform and Youth Engagement teams will navigate you through case studies of what municipal governments can do, at varying levels of intervention, to reduce criminal justice system interactions overall and support racially equitable outcomes within these efforts.

Additional Pre-meeting workshops

In addition to the Advancing Racial Equity in Local Justice Reform Initiatives pre-meeting workshop, GARE is happy to host a variety of pre-meeting workshops designed to help our participants advance racial equity (these workshops are open to people who are not participating in the membership meeting):

Advancing Racial Equity: The Role of Government-This workshop provides an introduction to the role, responsibilities and opportunities for government to advance racial equity.
Train-the-Trainer: Advancing Racial Equity- This workshop includes an introductory 4-hour curriculum that you can use in your own organization, as well as specific exercises, and strategies for dealing with challenging situations. **
Train-the-Trainer: Using a Racial Equity Toolkit- This workshop includes an overview of the Racial Equity Tool training that you can use in your own organization, as well as specific exercises and strategies for dealing with challenging situations. **
Practices for Racial Equity in Supervision and Human Resource Advising -A Workshop for Supervisors, Managers and Human Resource Professionals.

**Participants must complete requisite trainings before registration.

For more information about the membership meeting, or any of our pre-meetings, click here.

Member Update

Creating and Sustaining a Racial Equity Core Team: Members Discuss Challenges, Successes and Key Insights-

Race Forward recently launched the Racial Equity Core Team guide, which provides jurisdictions and organizations with the tools and strategies to establish and scale a cross-departmental Core Team. As a special GARE Webinar, Terry Keleher, Director of Strategic Innovation of Race Forward, and Gordon Goodwin, GARE Midwest Region Project Manager, spoke with three GARE Members featured in the guide who have successfully convened Racial Equity Core Teams in their jurisdictions. The discussion highlighted the successes and unique challenges of several teams working to implement their organizational racial equity plans, including Kimberlee Archie (Director, Office of Equity & Inclusion, City of Asheville, NC), Lisa Ramadhar and Nannette Blaize (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene), and Matias Valenzuela (Director of the Office of Equity and Social Justice, King County, WA).

To watch a recording of the webinar, download the Racial Equity Core Team guide, or to learn more about racial equity core teams, click here.

In the News

Houses Divided, series on segregation in Illinois, (01/23/2019)

Minneapolis wants to tie funding of neighborhood groups to their diversity, (01/28/2019)

Portland City Council Introduces Resolution Condemning White Supremacy and Alt-Right Hate Groups. (02/07/2019)

GARE Welcomes its Newest Members:

The California Department of Social Services

The City of Vancouver Washington

The Virginia Department of Health

For more information on these, or any of our GARE members, click here.

Help us meet our goal of getting 1,000 organizations across the country make a commitment to advancing racial equity!

Are you committed to Racial Equity?

Join Racial Equity Here, GARE's new, cross-sector platform to align efforts across the country! Racial Equity Here is a movement of jurisdictions, community groups, foundations, businesses and schools committed to three steps forward on racial equity: to LEARN, ACT, and PARTNER, with tools provided.

For more information about our Racial Equity Here, Commit to Action site, or to join the more than 500 organizations that have committed to advancing racial equity, click here.