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Building a Relational Culture

City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative
Use this resource for reflection and action, a guide toward building practices for ourselves, on our teams and across our organizations that create changes that are part of a larger movement that’s committed to liberation for all. Each manifestation of relational culture contains practices…

Appendix B - Sample Certification Policy - .docx (word)

Alexandra Bonazoli, Julie Dahlstrom, Emily Leung, Sarah Leidel, Jennifer Ollington, Ashleigh Pelto, Jamie Sabino
Attached please find Appendix B Sample Certification Policy - .docx (word), which is part of "A Guide for Certifiers: MGL 258F Certification for Victims of Violent Crime and Human Trafficking." 

A Guide for Certifying Agencies: MGL 258F Certification for Victims of Violent Crime and Human Trafficking

Alexandra Bonazoli, Julie Dahlstrom, Emily Leung, Sarah Leidel, Jennifer Ollington, Ashleigh Pelto, Jamie Sabino
This guide provides information to certifying agencies about the new law, M.G.L. 258F Certification for Victims of Violent Crime and Human Trafficking, which went into effect on July 1, 2021. The law provides victims of violent crime and human trafficking equal access to justice throughout the…

Appendix G Sample Tracking Spreadsheet (.xlsx - excel)

Alexandra Bonazoli, Julie Dahlstrom, Emily Leung, Sarah Leidel, Jennifer Ollington, Ashleigh Pelto, Jamie Sabino
Attached please find Appendix G Sample Tracking Spreadsheet (.xlsx - excel), which is part of the "Guide for Certifiers: MGL 258F Certification for Victims of Violent Crime and Human Trafficking."

Appendix D Sample Designated Certifier Letter - .docx (word)

Alexandra Bonazoli, Julie Dahlstrom, Emily Leung, Sarah Leidel, Jennifer Ollington, Ashleigh Pelto, Jamie Sabino
Attached please find a .docx (word) version of "Appendix D Sample Designated Certifier Letter," which is part of the "Guide for Certifiers: MGL 258F Certification for Victims of Violent Crime and Human Trafficking."

Supporting the Economic Security and Health of Older Women of Color

Justice in Aging
From the introduction to this Issue Brief: Women of color confront systemic discrimination–on the basis of race, gender, and other characteristics like sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration or disability status–throughout their lives. It is important to understand that…

Fear of the Black Child

Kristin Henning
We live in a society that is uniquely afraid of Black children. Americans become anxious — if not outright terrified — at the sight of a Black child ringing the doorbell, riding in a car with white women, or walking too close in a convenience store. Americans think of Black children as…

Building Partnerships & Community Connections

COVID Eviction Legal Help Project
  Tenants who face housing insecurity do not always know about free legal aid or where to find it. Many have trouble accessing free legal aid once they know it is available.  This toolkit offers legal aid organizations ideas they can use to connect with tenants — both directly…

The Fruits of the Past The Unfair Consequences of Excluding Massachusetts Farmworkers from State Labor Law Protections and How the Fairness for Farmworkers Act Will Remedy That Injustice

The Fairness for Farmworkers Coalition
Farmworkers across Massachusetts plant and harvest fruits and vegetables, raise livestock, and tend to orchards and nurseries.It is both highly skilled and often back-breaking work. Yet, Massachusetts law excludes farmworkers from important labor protections afforded the rest of the…

Race Equity in Legal Advocacy: Moving from Theory to Practice (Webinar)

Columbia Legal Services
A panel of Columbia Legal Services (CLS) advocates share their experiences on the journey towards race equity.

Building Racial Equity into Emergency Rental Assistance Programs An Equity Checklist for Program Administrators

Urban Institute
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the disproportionate housing stability challenges faced by Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people, and its health and economic effects made those disparities even worse. State and local governments are now distributing the almost $47 billion in emergency rental…

These 4 phrases are sabotaging your DEI efforts

Mita Mallick
While these commitments are critical, the hard work of building inclusive cultures comes down to the conversations happening every day in boardrooms, in virtual team meetings, and in one-on-one interactions. The language we use when discussing our DEI efforts matter. The words and phrases we use…

Personal Self-Assessment of Anti-Bias Behavior Worksheet

Anti-Defamation League
Link to a checklist for assessing individual attitudes and behaviors for bias.  As “unlearning” prejudice is a life-long process, it is useful to periodically reflect on our attitudes and behaviors regarding issues of bias.

Most Adults Who Feel Treated or Judged Unfairly by Health Care Providers Report Adverse Consequences (Fact Sheet)

Laura Skopec, Dulce Gonzalez, Genevieve M. Kenney
From the introduction to the report: Black and Hispanic/Latinx adults report experiencing discrimination when seeking health care at higher rates than white adults, which raises the question: How might these reported experiences adversely affect health care? The Urban Institute’s…

Perceptions of Unfair Treatment or Judgment Due to Race or Ethnicity in Five Settings (Brief)

Dulce Gonzalez, Genevieve M. Kenney, Marla McDaniel, Laura Skopec
This paper looks at  the extent of perceptions of unfair treatment or judgment due to race and ethnicity across five domains during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics of Both Inpatients and Outpatients with Positive Testing for SARS-CoV-2

Jason H. Wasfy et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine
From the article: Positive SARS-CoV-2 tests are highly correlated with race and poverty. Black and lower income patients tested positive more than double the proportion of White and higher-income patients. Patients in zip codes with higher proportions of service sector workers had more than…

4 Types of Racism

Race and Social Justice Initiative (RSJI) & Seattle Office for Civil Rights
Definition of basic concepts of racism such as interpersonal, institutional, structural and internalized racism. 

Hispanic LGBTQ Individuals Encounter Heightened Discrimination

Lindsay Mahowald, The Center for American Progress
The 2020 CAP survey shows disparities in access to services, benefits, and mental health care for Hispanic LGBTQ individuals.

IT’S TIME-PUSHING THE ENVELOPE: CENTERING RACIAL JUSTICE IN CIVIL LEGAL AID ADVOCACY

JANET CHUNG, COLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES & ROBBIE MCEWEN, NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
PowerPoint Presentation on how to begin to center racial equity in civil legal aid work.

Antiracism & Immigration: People First

Be Antiracist with Ibram Kendi
As a 2020 presidential candidate, Julián Castro proposed radically reforming United States immigration policy by putting people first. Previously he served as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and spent three terms as mayor of San Antonio, Texas. In…

How to Close the Digital Divide in the U.S.

Bhaskar Chakravorti, Harvard Business Review
From the summary of the report: The U.S. government is negotiating a plan to address one of the most important — but overlooked — problems facing the country: the digital divide. While this problem is often talked about as a simple problem of access to broadband internet service, it…

MassHealth Estate Recovery webinar for assisters & legal aid July 22, 2021

MLRI
MassHealth Estate Recovery A webinar for enrollment assisters & legal aid advocates July 22, 2021, 2-3 pm Recording & slides of July 22 Estate Recovery webinar now available. If you missed the July 22, 2021 Estate Recovery Webinar, the recording is posted here on the…

Inclusive and Empathetic Language Use Guidelines

Alliance for Healthier Communities
Referring to people as the vulnerable, the poor, the homeless, drug addicts, mentally ill, disabled, etc., is common in policy documents, media and our own communications. Unlike derogatory terms or slurs, these words are not meant to be intentionally harmful. More often than not they are used out…

Approaching Consumer Law with a Racial Justice Lens

The Shriver Center and the National Consumer Law Center
The Shriver Center and the National Consumer Law Center offered a series of free webinars featuring Legal Impact Network members and other advocates discussing strategies for applying a race equity lens to consumer law advocacy. In the first session, they discussed why race is a critical part…

Black LGBTQ Individuals Experience Heightened Levels of Discrimination

Lindsay Mahowald, Center for American Progress
The compounding effects of discrimination for Black LGBTQ Americans are evident in the workplace, health care systems, and police interactions, leading to gaps in economic advancement and mental and physical health outcomes.

Race Equity at the Core of Consumer Law

The Shriver Center on Poverty Law
The report highlights consumer advocates who are seeking to actively acknowledge and directly confront the ways in which racism impacts their consumer clients and consumer advocacy

Race Equity at the Core of Consumer Law

The Shriver Center on Poverty Law
This report is a collection of chapters written by consumer advocates across the country making the case that consideration of race should be central to the practice of consumer law. Within, readers will find concepts and case studies that the authors hope will assist consumer advocates…

The Problem(s) of Broadband in America

Sean Gonsalves
From the introduction: It has become a truism that high-speed Internet connectivity in a 21st century economy is not a mere luxury, but a necessity, nearly as important as electricity. Yet, a common misunderstanding of exactly where the digital divide is located has led to faulty assumptions…

Centering Racial Equity in Measurement and Evaluation: Emerging Lessons and Guidance from Human Service Nonprofits

Leiha Edmonds, Clair Minson, and Ananya Hariharan (Urban Institute)
Many nonprofit organizations that provide direct human services are exploring how racial equity and inclusion (REI) and performance measurement collectively inform decisionmaking and strategies that affect their core mission. Human service nonprofits often hold an explicit charge to increase the…

Center for Research on Unemployment Insurance Systems Website

Center for Research on Unemployment Insurance Systems
Visit the Center for Research on Unemployment Insurance Systems to find data items and tools related to Unemployment Insurance (UI).

Life On Hold: Black Immigrants & the Promise of Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness

The Federal Legislation Clinic (FLC) at Georgetown University Law Center and The UndocuBlack Network (UBN),
From the introduction to the report: This report intends to provide those interested and invested in the livelihoods of Black immigrants with knowledge and advocacy tools. The report begins with a broad discussion of the Black immigrant experience in the United States, along with descriptions of…

It’s Time to Retire “Vulnerable Communities”

Communicate Health
In public health, dear readers, talking about “vulnerable” communities, populations, or individuals is standard fare. We’ve all said it many times when referring to communities we’re prioritizing with our communications or programs. But this week, we wanted to make a case for retiring it from our…

Racial Impact Statements

Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project
Racial impact statements are a tool for lawmakers to evaluate potential disparities of proposed legislation prior to adoption and implementation. Analogous to fiscal impact statements, they assist legislators in detecting unforeseen policy ramifications.  ractically speaking, it is…

Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Health Care Coverage and Access 2-13-2019

Jesse C. Baumgartner, Sara R. Collins, and David C. Radley
This Data Brief examines coverage/access inequities for Black and Latinx/Hispanic adults, with a focus on effects of Medicaid expansion on equity at the state level.  

Do No Harm Guide: Applying Equity Awareness in Data Visualization

Jonathan Schwabish and Alice Feng, Urban Institute
In this guide and its associated toolkits, Urban Institute focus on how data practitioners can approach their work through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion. They conducted over a dozen interviews with nearly 20 people who work with data to hear how they approach inclusivity in their…

Race Equity Organizational Readiness Assessment

Shriver Center on Poverty Law
An assessment tool to gage an organization's alignment with racial equity principals. 

Black Wall Street’s Second Destruction After the Race Massacre, Greenwood rebuilt strong. Then came “urban renewal.”

Carlos Moreno, Next City
Article on how the 1921 Tulsa race massacre was followed by many of the "legal massacres" described in the Color of Law (redlining, highway and ring road destruction of neighbood, urban renewal, zoning abuse, eminent domain abuse, loss of generational wealth and…

White Supremacy Culture – Still Here

Tema Okun
From the article website: This article is an update of the original White Supremacy Culture article published in 1999. While I wrote the words on the pages that became the White Supremacy Culture article all those years ago, I want to make it clear that I do not consider the original article, or…

The Color of the Capital Gap

Boston Indicators, the Economic Inclusion Strategy team at the Boston Foundation and in partnership with the Coalition for an Equitable Economy
A report analyzing troubling racial gaps in access to small business capital and explore a range of local strategies for expanding access.

Immigration and Blackness: What’s Race Got to Do With It?

Karla McKanders
Failing to pay attention to the nuances of immigration law and policy and its impact on immigrants of African descent is dangerous in that it hinders a comprehensive understanding of how racism has operated in the U.S. legal system and how it continues to operate in many facets of immigration laws.…

Questions and Answers About Guardianships of Adults/ Incapacitated Persons

VLP
Brochure:  Questions and Answers About Guardianship of an Adult in Massachusetts English brochure Spanish brochure

Senate Ways and Means FY 22 Budget Proposal: MLRI's Preliminary Analysis of Selected Issues

MLRI
On May 11, 2021, the Senate Committee on Ways and Means released its budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 (FY 22), Senate 3.  MLRI offers this preliminary analysis of selected budget topics affecting low-income residents of the Commonwealth. Download the document below.

Questions and Answers About Guardianship of a Minor in Massachusetts

VLP
Brochure:  Questions and Answers About Guardianship of a Minor in Massachusetts English brochure Spanish brochure  

Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB)

MLRI
An introduction to the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program for Massachusetts advocates and community partners.  Applications for EBB open on May 12, 2021. Learn more and apply at GetEmergencyBroadband.org.   

The Difference between Hispanic and Latino

Nicki Lisa Cole, Ph.D.
Hispanic and Latino are often used interchangeably though they actually mean two different things. Hispanic refers to people who speak Spanish or are descended from Spanish-speaking populations, while Latino refers to people who are from or descended from people…

MA Bullying Report of Massachusetts Muslim Youth: Standing Up & Speaking Out Standing Up & Speaking Out

The Council on American-Islamic Relations
In this report, the Massachusetts Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MA) presents its analysis of a 2019-2020 school climate survey of Massachusetts Muslim Youth. The survey was administered to 190 students across the Commonwealth. The purpose of this report is to understand…

Diversity Recruiting Strategies: 8 Diversity Recruitment Best Practices for 2021

Jess Stanier
From the article: This article will help you understand the steps you can take to improve diversity through recruitment. We cover the 20% of diversity recruitment strategies that can yield 80% of the results including: Setting the right goals Collecting and understanding equality…

Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi (Podcast)

Ibram X. Kendi
Be Antiracist imagines what an antiracist society might look like and how we all can play an active role in building one. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the author of How to Be an Antiracist, the book that spurred a nationwide conversation redefining what it means to be antiracist, and in this podcast, he…

House Ways and Means FY 22 Budget Proposal: MLRI's Preliminary Analysis of Selected Issues

MLRI
On April 14, 2021, the House Committee on Ways and Means released its budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 (FY 22), House 4000.  MLRI offers this preliminary analysis of selected budget topics affecting low-income residents of the Commonwealth. Download the document below.

Civil Rights and the Impact of Native American Names, Symbols, and Imagery in School Mascots

A Briefing Report of the Nebraska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
This report begins with a brief background of the issues to be considered by the Committee. It then presents an overview of the testimony received. Finally, it identifies primary findings as they emerged from this testimony, as well as recommendations for addressing areas of civil rights concerns