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It has come to our attention that certain links in the previous newsletter were broken. We apologize for the inconvenience and have provided the corrected language and links below. Please email RaceEquity@minneapolismn.gov with any questions.
Last week, over 40 City staff and external subject matter experts completed two full days of work on both the Housing and Economic Development policy priorities for the Strategic and Racial Equity Action Plan. The work sessions were facilitated by external consultants using the Metrics of Urgency/Vital Few process, which is a problem solving approach designed to identify vital projects that will improve outcomes for residents in each of the three policy areas of the Strategic and Racial Equity Action Plan. Building off the important work that happened in these sessions, City staff will be refining and developing the following components for the final plan to be adopted in July 2019:
- Strategic need with rationale
- Key lagging indicators
- Problem statement
- 3-year SMART goals
- “Metric of Urgency” – highest impact lagging indicators
- “Vital Few” projects - 1-3 projects that will impact goals
- Workplan (City staff actions at high-level)
About the Strategic and Racial Equity Action Plan
The goal of the Strategic & Racial Equity Action Plan is to prioritize and guide City work to eliminate racial disparities in three targeted policy areas. The strategic need for each policy area is outlined below:
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Housing: Reduce involuntary displacement in rental housing for Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Immigrant communities that are disproportionately impacted.
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Economic Development: Increase the entry and sustainability of businesses in Minneapolis owned by people of color so that the disparity between Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Immigrant communities and white people is eliminated.
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Public Safety: Eliminate the disproportionate impact of violence in Black, Indigenous, People of Color communities.
You can find more information on the Strategic and Racial Equity Action Plan on the City’s website. Additionally, if you’d like to provide input on any of the three policy areas of the plan, you can submit comments using the Strategic & Racial Equity Action Plan Community Survey.
About ReCAST Minneapolis
The Resilience in Communities After Stress & Trauma (ReCAST) Minneapolis Program is funded through a multi-year grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). ReCAST Minneapolis is intended to assist high-risk youth and families, and promote resilience and equity in communities that have recently faced civil unrest through the implementation of evidence-based violence prevention and community youth engagement programs, as well as linkages to trauma-informed behavioral health services. SAMHSA created the ReCAST Program to support communities that have lived through demonstrations of mass protest in response to police-involved shootings of unarmed African-American males.
For more information, please email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov.
This update was developed [in part] under grant number 1H79SM063520-01 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS.
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