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Saint Paul Racial Equity Toolkit Training. Welcome. Training Objectives. Create context for understanding why we need to work to achieve racial equity. Introduce the Racial Equity Assessment Toolkit. Provide an opportunity to practice using the toolkit.

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  1. Saint Paul Racial Equity Toolkit Training Welcome

  2. Training Objectives • Create context for understanding why we need to work to achieve racial equity. • Introduce the Racial Equity Assessment Toolkit. • Provide an opportunity to practice using the toolkit.

  3. Saint Paul’s Racial Equity Vision St. Paul will achieve its full potential when we realize the strength of our dynamic diversity. We will be a city where race does not predetermine opportunities in education, employment, housing, health and safety. People will realize their potential and fully contribute to city and neighborhood life. Our government will have a workforce that reflects the diversity of our city.

  4. Saint Paul’s Racial Equity Goals • Workforce & organizational culture. • Services, programs, policies; engagement • The community.

  5. Kinds of Racism • Individualracism • Pre-judgment, bias, or discrimination by an individual based on race. • Institutional racism • Policies, practices and procedures that work better for white people than for people of color, often unintentionally or inadvertently. • Structural racism • A history and current reality of institutional racism across all institutions, combining to create a system that negatively impacts communities of color.

  6. Interrupting racism

  7. The Toolkit Package

  8. When to use the racial equity toolkit? • Know or suspect there’s a problem. • Want to see if you have a problem. • Want to analyze a new service, policy, procedure or budget decision.

  9. Step I: Set Outcomes • Identify your department’s most important racial equity outcome related to this issue? • Issue aligns with outcomes. • Department approval. • Do you have a proposal?

  10. Step II: Data + stakeholders • What is the relevant data related to your analysis? • Service records. • Participation data. • Fees and fines. • Complaints.

  11. Data + stakeholders • Who is affected? • What is their experience? • Formal strategies. • Informal strategies. • Multiple voices.

  12. Data + stakeholders • What do data and your conversations with stakeholders tell you about existing racial inequities and how they impact peoples’ lives?

  13. …for new understanding.

  14. Step III. Benefit or burden • Benefits • Aligns with outcome. • Achieves hoped for equitable results. • Burden • Unintentional negative consequences. • Budget or other constraints.

  15. Step IV. Short, long-term strategies • Short- and long-term strategies? • Benchmarks and indicators of success? • Partnerships to ensure success.

  16. Step V. Awareness, Accountability • Share with your department? • With other departments? • Share with community? • Retain their participation. • Unresolved issues? • What needed to make the changes?

  17. Small group work • Benefit or burden. • Alignment with desired outcome. • Unintended negative consequences. • Short- and long-term strategies • Benchmarks for success. • Awareness & accountability. • Department and city. • Community stakeholders. • Unresolved issues.

  18. Debrief • Groups share. • How might you use the tool in the near future? • Next steps?

  19. Institutional change

  20. Thank you! Questions.

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