This document outlines an agenda for a panel discussion on advancing racial equity through community engagement in collective impact work. The agenda includes an overview, four panelists from different organizations, and a question and answer session. The panelists discuss their experiences engaging communities and advancing equity in their collective impact work, including lessons learned and advice for other practitioners. They emphasize the importance of relationship building, disaggregating data, youth engagement, and addressing power imbalances to do this work effectively.

1. Advancing Racial
Equity through
Community
Engagement in
Collective Impact
April 30, 2015

2. 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
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@Living_Cities

3. Panelists
Junious Williams
Urban Strategies
Council
Dr. Frank Mirabal
Office of Mayor
Richard Berry, City
of Albuquerque
Kirsten Wysen
Public Health-
Seattle & King
County
Nia Baucke
Strive Partnership
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4. 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

5. Join the conversation on Twitter using hashtag
#CEinCI
Kirsten Wysen
Public Health-Seattle & King
County
@wysenk
Nia Baucke
Strive Partnership
@_nianicole
Dr. Frank Mirabal
Office of Mayor Richard Berry, City
of Albuquerque
@FrankMirabal
Junious Williams
Urban Strategies Council
@JuniousWilliams
#CEinCI
@Living_Cities

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 quality
2. 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, MHSA
Project Manager
Communities of Opportunity

9. 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

10. 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 maps
3. Relationships
4. Continual training and practice
www.kingcounty.gov/equity

11. What lessons have you learned?
What are the current challenges and opportunities?
1. Go slow to go fast
2. “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. Food
4. Change happens at the speed of
trust
A new metric for community engagement:
• # of meals, # of beers, # of cups of tea shared

12. 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 time
2. It isn’t free
3. It’s fun
4. It’s necessary
5. The food is good
6. Framing is important
7. It takes practice

13. 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

14. Frank Mirabal, Ph.D
Director of Collective Impact
Office of the Mayor, Richard J. Berry
City of Albuquerque

15.  Meet people where they are
 Cross-sector partnerships
 Several vertebrae make-up
“backbone”
 Data Informed
Collective Impact Work
City of Albuquerque

16.  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

17.  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

18.  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

19. 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

20. Excellence with Equity
Nia Baucke
Communication & Community Engagement Coordinator
The StrivePartnership
One West Fourth Street,#200
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Every Child
Every Step of the Way
Cradle to Career
A subsidiary of
@StriveCincyNKY
strivepartnership.org

21. 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

22. • 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

23. • 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. April 30, 2015
Presentation by: Junious Williams, CEO
Urban Strategies Council
Juniousw@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

28. 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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30. Community Engagement
Methods
 Governance Structure Composition
 Extended Governance Structure
 Example: Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund
 Steering 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. • 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

34. For More Information
• Data Driven Equity Model
http://www.urbanstrategies.org/equity/#.VTpyFZPrXS
c
• 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

35. Facilitated Q&A
Submit questions:
– via twitter using hashtag #CEinCI
– via GoTo Webinar using the Questions box
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36. 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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37. Closing Thoughts
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