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BETTER TOGETHER: A COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN FOR EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ENGAGEMENT PRESENTED BY THE BETTER TOGETHER LEADERSHIP CIRCLE AND THE ART OF COMMUNITY Thursday, November 12, 2015 www.decaturnext.com BETTER TOGETHER DECATUR Social Bingo

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BETTER TOGETHER:

A COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN FOR EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ENGAGEMENT

Thursday, November 12, 2015

PRESENTED BY THE BETTER TOGETHER LEADERSHIP CIRCLE AND THE ART OF COMMUNITY

www.decaturnext.com

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Social Bingo

  • Use your Social Bingo card to

meet as many new people as you can

  • When you have completed your

card, please place it on the projector table

  • Please take a seat with people

you don’t know well

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JIM BASKETT

MAYOR CITY OF DECATUR

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PEGGY MERRISS

CITY MANAGER CITY OF DECATUR

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MATTICE HAYNES ASHLEY COOPER

FACILITATORS THE ART OF COMMUNITY

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Our Aim Today 1. Reflect back what we’ve heard and what we’ve learned 2. Listen for which action items the community cares enough about to act on 3. Invite community members to step into shared leadership and accountability for the CAP

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Agenda

  • Social Bingo – prizes at the end!
  • Welcome
  • Introductions and Who’s in the Room
  • Better Together: What we’ve heard and

what we’ve learned

  • Leadership for Community Action
  • Charting Our Success
  • Commitments and Next Steps
  • Close
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WHO’S IN THE ROOM?

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Invitations

  • Participate fully!
  • Speak from your own experience
  • Be aware of your impact
  • Connect with new people
  • Listen deeply
  • Learn and unlearn
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Introductions

  • Share your name and where you

live or work in the City

  • Why was it important for you to

be here tonight?

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BETTER TOGETHER:

A COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN FOR EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND ENGAGEMENT

Thursday, November 12, 2015

PRESENTED BY THE BETTER TOGETHER LEADERSHIP CIRCLE AND THE ART OF COMMUNITY

www.decaturnext.com

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ALL PERSPECTIVES ARE NEEDED

some will see ways to SOLVE the PROBLEM some will see ways to ADDRESS the REASON

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Places of Worship

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EQUITABLE The Message “Bring your culture, values, heritage, voice, worldview, lifestyle - your whole self; we want to engage in truly mutual relationship.” The Goal Justice: community embodies and expresses the full range of voices and gifts present, including The Other The Effort Systems and programs in place to invite and welcome people, including those from the margins; to ensure their presence, gifts and perspective will be visible and valued; and to ensure that these communities, gifts and values influence the community’s identity, policies and structures The Result Transformed and transforming community with open doors and open hearts; different groups share power and shape identity, values, culture, leadership, structures and policies

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Source: Google Images

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Moving from Inviting to Equitable

Inviting Inclusive Equitable The Message “Come, join our community and share our cultural values and heritage.” “Help us to be diverse and share some of your cultural heritage.” “Bring your culture, values, heritage, voice, worldview, lifestyle - your whole self; we want to engage in truly mutual relationship.” The Goal Assimilation: community invites new people to enter and adopt dominant identity Incorporation: community welcomes marginalized groups, but no true shift in community’s cultural identity and practices Justice: community embodies and expresses the full range

  • f voices and gifts present, including

The Other The Effort Systems and programs in place to invite and incorporate newcomers into existing structures and identity; rejection or marginalization of those who do not assimilate Stated commitment to inclusivity, but less attention to

  • ngoing programs, systemic

analysis or power; emphasis on individual efforts Systems and programs in place to invite and welcome people, including those from the margins; to ensure their presence, gifts and perspective will be visible and valued; and to ensure that these communities, gifts and values influence the community’s identity, policies and structures The Result Healthy numbers (perhaps with some members who claim marginal identity) but community and its membership is

  • verwhelmingly monocultural

Revolving door, with people coming from margins only to stay on the fringe or leave; community remains monocultural, with some pockets of difference Transformed and transforming community with open doors and open hearts; different groups share power and shape identity, values, culture, leadership, structures and policies Adapted from Radical Welcome by Stephanie Spellers

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Leadership Circle

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Community Impact and Sustainability

Implementation

and Evaluation Community Engagement and Participatory Action Planning Asset Mapping and Process Design Mobilization

Community Action Planning Process Timeline

November 2014- June 2015 2016 and beyond January-June 2015 July-November 2015

  • 18 Leadership Circle members
  • 729 completed surveys
  • 250+ community conversation participants
  • 55 training participants
  • 30 participants in potential partners’ meeting
  • Phase 2 Recommendations Report + Participant Guide + Conversation Kit
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Equitable and Inclusive City

Community Participation and Engagement Racially Just Community Policing Diverse and Affordable Housing Welcoming and Inclusive Retail Environment Maximizing Use of Public Spaces

Transportation

Options for All

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Top Action Ideas 11/12/15

  • Advocate for GA approval of homestead exemptions
  • Host forums with experts to manage growth and maintain

diversity

  • Require Fair and Impartial training for officers
  • Produce guide covering tax assistance etc for seniors
  • Make Better Together permanent
  • Ongoing BT column in Focus and other media
  • Provide city leaders with support for equity lens
  • Host conversations on race, diversity and inclusion
  • Publish flyer with guidance on reporting suspicious activity
  • Convene task force for workforce housing
  • Develop Welcoming Decatur checklist for events
  • Invite more people of color to Citizen Police Academy
  • Make studio space available for adult and youth art
  • Attend public meetings and utilize local resources
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LEADERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY ACTION

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COMMITMENTS

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Next Steps

  • Monday, November 16th (6:30-7:30pm)

City Commission work session to present draft Community Action Plan

  • Monday, December 7th (7:30pm)

City Commission meeting to present final plan