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Community Leadership Team 2022-2023
The Community Leadership Team is a group of community members in our region interested in building their capacity to advocate and organize around racial justice health equity. The CLT met virtually, from October 2022-June 2023.
During this time, OHEA staff provided assisted with the following objectives: Deepened their racial justice health equity analysis skills via trainingsand community conversations around topics like data justice andpolicy and advocacy work. Learn about strategies around advocating and organizing aroundracial justice health equity principles policies and actionCoordinated events and/or projects that engage their communitiesaround racial justice health equity work
This group of community members were interested in developing their existing analyses around policy, systems, and environmental change work, political advocacy, and/or learning about ways to engage in strategies within their own communities, networks, or institutions, for change. This cohort focused on building the capacity of young folks of color (ages 18-26) in Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington County in Oregon.
During the duration of the program, CLT members gained the following: Enhanced discussion and development of racial justice informed health equity analysis. Stronger understanding and confidence in pushing for racial justice health equity policies and practices within their positions of influence. Opportunities to develop relationships with professionals dedicated to racial justice health equity as well as connections to sit on decision-making spaces in our region. Connections with other amazing advocates working to further their racial justice health equity informed analyses, support from OHEA staff and partners
HOW CLT MEMBERS DESCRIBE THEIR PROJECTS
"My project involved fund redistribution to HOLLA mentors for their Joy Fund. The other organization that received funds to help their current project of a Houselessness Comic was the “Changing the Narrative” project."
" My project focused on providing low-income refugee children in Southeast Portland with the school supplies necessary to make it through the school year. My project also aimed to identify
the need for school supplies and other resources within the community."
"This project helped me get a better
understanding of what it means to have a community-driven approach, and it was an experience I would want to do over and over again if given the opportunity! "
"We created a financial literacy workbook called the Family Love Fund FOR the immigrant and refugee community BY the African immigrant and refugee community. The workbook is centered on the act of remittance, which we refer to in our workbook as the Family Love Fund. Remittance is the practice of sending money or resources from people living abroad to their communities and loved ones in their country of origin. The Family Love Fund workbook provides a space for people to read wisdom from the African immigrant and refugee community in regards to the family love fund and to reflect upon their own Family Love Fund and their general budget."