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ITEM TITLE: Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Work Session
SUMMARY: Inclusive Dubuque network partners will report on activities
and accomplishments since December 2016.
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TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT: Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Update
DATE: April 19, 2017
Human Rights Director Kelly Larson is transmitting background information on Inclusive
Dubuque accomplishments since December 2016, which serves as a supplement to a
presentation that will be offered by Inclusive Dubuque network partners.
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FROM: Kelly Larson, Human Rights Department Director
DATE: April 19, 2017
RE: Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Update
This memo provides a written background of Inclusive Dubuque accomplishments since
December 2016, and serves as a supplement to a presentation that will be offered by
Inclusive Dubuque network partners at a work session on April 24.
Background
Launched in 2013, Inclusive Dubuque is a local network of leaders from faith, labor,
education, business, nonprofit, and government committed to a common cause: a
community where all people feel respected, valued, and engaged. The network began
informally in early 2012 with less than a dozen community organizations and
businesses beginning a conversation about the need for a collaborative effort around
inclusion and equity in Dubuque. Today, the network consists of over 60 organizations
and individual community members. Partners gather monthly to share their
perspectives on diversity, equity, and inclusion in Dubuque, to learn from one another,
and to connect with each other on projects. The network also works to identify
opportunities through data collection and dialogue, and to take action on those
opportunities.
The Inclusive Dubuque vision is to have a community where people feel respected,
valued, and engaged. Partners are committed to supporting an equitable and inclusive
culture to meet the economic and cultural needs of our diverse community. As a
network, Inclusive Dubuque organizes people around the vision, identifies opportunities,
and takes action to move us closer to our vision.
Inclusive Dubuque strives to operate using the concept of collective impact. Partners
within the network come together around a common agenda, identify a set of shared
measures, continuously communicate with one another, identify a backbone
organization to keep everyone organized, and then each contribute what they do best in
the form of mutually reinforcing activities designed to move the needle on the shared
measures.
One of the first major projects undertaken by Inclusive Dubuque over the past year has
been the development of an equity profile - an extensive process to discover how
diverse groups are affected by various systems in our community that impact economic
wellbeing, housing, education, health, safe neighborhoods, transportation, and arts &
culture.
The process of developing a community equity profile included numerous components
and spanned February through October 2015. While a portion of the process involved
gathering readily available quantitative data from sources such as the U.S. Census, we
intentionally supplemented this with community surveys, community dialogue sessions,
and facilitator training. Inclusive Dubuque also implemented a thorough marketing &
communication plan. The surveys, dialogue sessions, facilitator training, and
associated marketing have served a purpose beyond data collected, as they have
helped to catalyze a larger community conversation about equity issues that extends
beyond those of us working in a professional capacity. The hope is that this will
encourage ongoing input and actions by community members.
Working groups were then established around each of the core areas of the equity
profile: economic wellbeing, housing, health, education, neighborhood safety, Arts &
Culture, and transportation. In November and December of 2015 and in April 2016, the
Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, and
the City of Dubuque partnered to bring Dan Duncan with Clear Impact (formerly Results
Leadership Group) to Dubuque to work with City and community partners to begin
applying results based accountability thinking to equity profile action planning efforts.
Inclusive Dubuque Network —Accomplishments this Quarter:
Tools have been made available to Network partners and are available online at
www.inclusivedbq.orq. In addition, this year's Equity Report was completed during this
quarter and will be available online near the end of April. The report is the mechanism
Inclusive Dubuque uses to capture the degree to which network partners are using tools
and taking actions to advance equity. As sector groups refine their work, additional tool
use may be implemented.
The Network Impact Council (NIC) finalized the Incident Response Plan based on input
from the full Network. The plan includes proposed role(s) for network partners in the
event of a hate or bias incident in our community. The NIC is also working on clarifying
roles and the distinctions between individual, institutional, and systemic interventions for
partners.
The Peer Learning Council planned and implemented a series of community
conversations this quarter, which will continue into next quarter. The conversations
focused on building community and on highlighting youth needs. The PLC also is
working with network partners to host a free showing of the documentary "I am Not Your
Negro," along with a presentation and a workshop with Dr. Jennifer Harvey on racial
identity and social structures. The Peer Learning Council continues to investigate
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options for facilitator skill building, and also encourages individual network partners to
offer learning activities as part of monthly network partner meetings. Learning
opportunities offered at monthly meetings this quarter included: 1) highlighting the
importance of understanding community climate when designing equity and inclusion
interventions, 2) learning about the opportunities and challenges presented by having
multiple generations in the workplace, and 3) learning foundational non-violent
communication skills.
Inclusive Dubuque and the City of Dubuque joined other Iowa partners in co-sponsoring
and presented at a conference by the Government Alliance on Race and Equity in Iowa
City on April 7 called "Advancing Racial Equity: The Role of Government— Iowa."
Sector groups continue to meet, with the Arts and Culture Sector group working on a
toolkit on using Arts and Culture to advance equity and inclusion, the education group
focusing on cultural competency training, and the Housing and Safe Neighborhoods
groups recently merging to examine collaborative strategies. Detailed information and
meeting notes are available on-line at http://inclusivedbq.org/working-groups/.
City as a Network Partner— Accomplishments this Quarter:
Intentional efforts continue to be made inside the organization to engage City staff in the
Inclusive Dubuque efforts. The monthly newsletters, snapshots, and weekly e-mails to
network partners are shared throughout City departments, and several City staff are
serving on Inclusive Dubuque Working groups. In addition, each department is
expected to contribute to advancing equity and inclusion through the work within their
department. The Equity Core Team leads these efforts.
This past quarter we continued for focus on building the infrastructure for advancing
equity: Intercultural teams have been reconstructed to focus on using intercultural skills
for the specific purpose of advancing equity through workforce development, service
delivery and community engagement, purchase of service agreements and grants, and
cross-sector partnerships in the community. Internal team infrastructure is below and is
designed to provide cross-department support so we collectively impact equity
advancements as an organization:
Equity Core Team — serves as central coordinator of advancing equity within
government and in partnership with community, and is taking the lead on
analyzing programs and services and piloting department equity plans in their
departments
Recruitment and Retention Team —strategizes on workforce needs and models
application within departments
Communications team — communicates accomplishments and tips related to
equity and inclusion.
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Cash Out team — works with grantees and contractors to advance equity and
inclusion
Facilitation team — delivers annual Foundations and Advanced workshops,
continues their own skill development, and takes learning back into departments.
Department Level Equity Plans: The six pilot departments (Police, Planning, Public
Works, Housing, Leisure Services, Human Rights) have achieved the following this
quarter related to the four goal areas for City equity plans:
Equitable workforce development:
• targeted/expanded recruitment efforts for open positions, such as through
partnership with the Multicultural Family Center and the Black Men Coalition;
• built staff skills around developing equity plans through facilitation and
participation in the four-day Advancing Equity Workshop;
• attended Race, Equity, and Inclusion webinar;
• attended community events with Marshallese and Latinx communities;
• began gathering workforce data on race/ethnicity, gender, age, and wage;
• proposed apprentice program (not funded);
• began to develop an equity education curriculum for seasonal staff.
Equitable service delivery and community engagement:
• community engagement strategies used targeted outreach, relationship
building practices, and varied locations and options to expand participation;
• began identifying services and data sources for analyzing equitable service
delivery.
• the Police Chief continues to partner with several community groups through
the Chief's Forum. The Chiefs Forum includes representatives from
numerous community based groups including Transgender Dubuque, Black
Men Coalition, National Alliance on Mental Illness, League of United Latin
American Citizens, 4 the People, Children of Abraham, Co-Dubuque,
Dubuque Area Congregations United, African Diaspora, Tri-State Islamic
Center, the Dubuque branch of the NAACP, and Dubuque Downtown
Christians United. The group meets on a monthly basis and this quarter they
participated in a police use-of-force simulation.
• the City continues to work with the NAACP and the Dubuque Police/City
Community Relations Committees established under the agreement between
the City and NAACP.
• the Human Rights Department continues work on the Cultural Snapshots
program, which is designed to connect cultures and subcultures to the
broader community. Marshall Island community members have been linked
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with various institutions and are working collaboratively to address inequities
impacting the Marshall Island community.
Advancing equity with grantees and contracted/purchase of services partners:
• infused questions and suggestions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
into grant applications and presentations to grant and purchase of services
partners;
• supported individuals from the following POS/Grant partners in developing
equity plans as part of the four-day Advancing Equity Workshop: ECIA,
Dubuque Main Street, GDDC, Arts & Cultural Affairs Commissioner;
• supported Purchase of Services recipient St. Mark Youth Enrichment in
continued work to champion equity in Grade Level Reading, Inclusive
Dubuque Education Sector, and My Brother's Keeper.
Advancing equity through collective impact initiatives:
• continued work with Inclusive Dubuque Housing/Neighborhoods/Education
sectors and with the Campaign for Grade Level Reading.
• work continues with My Brother's Keeper Network. Members associated with
this initiative include the Dubuque Community School District, University of
Dubuque, Loras College, NICC, Clarke University, the Dubuque Dream
Center, St. Mark Youth Enrichment, the Dubuque Black Men Coalition,
LULAC, and the Dubuque Branch of the NAACP.
Action Requested
This memo is background for the presentation that will be offered to the City Council by
Inclusive Dubuque network partners on April 24 and is being provided for your
information. No action is requested.
cc: Katrina Farren-Eller, Inclusive Dubuque Coordinator, Community Foundation
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Inclusive Dubuque is a local network of community leaders
from faith, labor, education and government committed to
supporting an informed, equitable and inclusive community
where all people are respected, valued and treated fairly.
Inclusive Dubuque is a peer-learning network that:
•Is a resource for data and information
•Supports equity learning opportunities
•Creates and shares equity tools
to support having an informed, equitable and inclusive community where all people
feel respected, valued and engaged.
No single organization can address systems change to
affect complex issues like:
•Eliminating racism in a community
•Educating the community’s children, or
•Ensuring a skilled workforce
A network takes a broad view of community problems,
engages all sectors, uses long-term strategies, builds trust
and encourages participation in decision-making to achieve
systems change.
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Create Urgency:In January of 2012,local business leaders began to recognize the need to create a
more welcoming and inclusive community in order to attract and retain a diverse work force.
Form a Powerful Coalition:In the spring of 2012,business and government leaders,including
CFGD,began to meet regularly in order to discuss how they might work on inclusion efforts.
Create a Vision for Change:The group engaged an outside consultant firm to work on
leadership and executive alignment to create values and strategies for the initiative.
Communicate the Vision:Network launched publicly in October 2013,and
continues to publish updates,utilize social media,and holds events that
communicate the vision of a welcoming and inclusive community.
Remove Obstacles:Continuous revisiting of processes,structure,or
relationships that may impede the work.Hiring a full time coordinator to
help move the work forward.
Create Short-Term Wins:Publishing a yearly Advancing Equity
Report .Using RBA to track progress.
Build on the Change:Always working toward continuous
improvement,analyzing what is working and not working,
bringing in new change agents and leaders with fresh ideas.
Anchor Changes in Corporate Culture: Vision
is embedded in core values of partner
organizations.
•City of Dubuque
•Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque
•Dr. Liang Chee Wee
•Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce
•Dubuque Racing Association
•Greater Dubuque Development Corporation
•IBM
•John Deere Foundation
•Mercy Medical Center
•Northeast Iowa Community College
•Surdna Foundation
Funders
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Diversity: the unique perspectives and life experiences an
individual or group brings to our community
Equity: everyone has access to opportunities and the resources
they need to thrive
Inclusion: engaging and supporting diverse needs to ensure all feel
welcome
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“Equality is the idea of everyone getting a shirt; equity is the
notion that everyone gets a shirt that fits.”
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3 levels of Network equity education goals and strategies
Individual Level:
Foundational Shifts
in Thinking
Institutional Level:
Embedding Shifts in
Thinking within
Institutions
Systems Level:
Institutions
Collaborating around
a Specific QOL Need
•Building Equity and
Inclusion Skills
•Cultural Competency
Training
•Implicit Bias Training
•Network Partner meetings
•Speaker Series
•Community Conversations
•Media Campaigns
•City’s ICC train the
trainer
•Institutional Self-
Assessments
•Toolkits
•Speaker Series
•Business Cohort
•Partner Stories
•Advancing Equity Report
•Institutional Climate
Survey
•Sector groups
•Network Health
Survey
•City-wide
Climate Survey
•Incident
Response Plan
Polarity Between Individual and Institutional Levels
•Individuals are empowered to act
•People influence institutions and systems
•Government needs residents who understand
value of addressing the system
•Create an inclusive environment
•Authentic community engagement
•Addresses and prioritizes needs
•Bigger impact
•Faster change
•Can influence people
•Addresses complexity and the wholeness
of people’s lived experience
•People get the message that they are the
problem or the only solution
•Movement is slow and people are harmed in
the meantime
•Dependent on people’s willingness to learn
and change
•People resist compliance
•Attitudes don’t change so systems
depend on the people in power
•Value of individual diversity and skills is
diminished
•People lose sight of their own
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Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
The Dubuque School District: Cultural Competency Training for Staff
•Alica Ries and Shirley Horstman
Loras College: Religious/Inclusion Climate Survey
•Dr. John Eby and Loras Students
City of Dubuque: Department Equity Partnerships
•Kelly Larson and Katherine McFarlin
Sam Giere in collaboration with Telegraph Herald: I’m a Dubuquer
Education Sector
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Collaborative Effort
Inclusive Dubuque Education Sector
•Partners who serve a range of ages from Early Childhood to College Students
•Multiple Educational Institutions and Organizations
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Vision
Increase Equity in Education
•Increase Cultural Competency of Educators and Adolescents
•Replicate working Models
•Collaborate with Other Sectors
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Current Focus
Obtain Funding : Service Grant
•Cultural Competency Training
•Equity Self-Assessments of Organizations and
Individuals
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Collective Impact
•Increased Numbers of Locally Trained Individuals
to deliver Training and Analysis
•Increased Individual Growth and Understanding of Cultural Competency
•Moxie Squad Model in ALL Dubuque
Middle Schools
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Community Climate Survey
Loras College Interfaith Research Team
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Objectives -The Dubuque Community Climate Survey seeks to:
•Inform the city’s efforts to create a welcoming environment by
collecting information on attitudes towards difference.
•Promote awareness throughout the Dubuque community of the diversity
of our population in terms of heritage, culture, religious orientation,
philosophy, politics, sexual orientation, and gender.
•Gauge intercultural relations in the Dubuque community and identify
areas of tension, anxiety, discrimination, and lack of understanding.
•Identify populations experiencing unequal opportunities in the
community
•Produce ongoing data collection on changing demographics and evolving
community attitudes.
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
The Survey
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Areas of Interest for Inclusive Dubuque
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Network Partners Working at the Individual and Institutional Levels
Data collected:
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
How we plan to do this
•Electronic Survey
–Generic Survey
–Customizable
•Phone Survey (if funded)
•Network Partner
Participation
•Research Team Analysis
–Areas of Strength
–Areas of Concern
•Presentation to the
Inclusive Dubuque Network
–Update in May
–Results in September
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Next Steps
•We need a few individual volunteers to take the initial
draft of the survey and give us feedback
•Organizational sign up to participate between now and
April
•Administer in April and May
•Promote to your organization
–We will give you a link to send to employees
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
Questions and Feedback?
Contact us: dbqinterfaith@gmail.com
Sign up now or contact
•Loras College Interfaith Research Team
(email above)
•Katrina Fahren-Eller
•Jasmine Sronkoski (Inclusive Dubuque
intern)
Network Partners Working at the Individual and
Institutional Levels
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Network Partners Working at the Individual and Institutional
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Infrastructure
Core Team
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Communications
Cash Out
Facilitation
Goal Areas
Workforce
Grants/Contracts
Services/Community
Engagement
Collective Impact
Partnerships
Iowa Campus Compact
Dubuque VISTA Program
The Iowa Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA Program over
the last four years has been a partnership between:
•Iowa Campus Compact
•Loras College
•The City of Dubuque Human Rights Department
•Operation New View
•The Circles Initiative
•Project Concern (Before Disbandment)
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Collective Impact of Dubuque
VISTAs
The VISTAs in Dubuque have worked to:
1.Cut barriers of limited resources
2.Provide an avenue for collaboration and communication among
agencies
3.Maintain shared measurements through monthly reporting.
4.Foster synchronization and respect among partnering agencies.
Four years of
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1.Resource Leveraging Between Agencies
2.Shared Definitions Established
3.Community Partnership Bridge Building
4.Higher Education Outreach and Partnership
Building
5.Internship and Volunteer System Creation
6.Recruitment Process Creation
7.Internship and Volunteer Manual Creation
8.Road To Success Event
9.Leadership Development Modules for
Circles
10.Community Resource Guide Development
11.Community Outreach and Education
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•Assisted 494 economically disadvantaged
individuals with accessing job training and
developing awareness of existing development
services.
•Facilitated or assisted with 163 education and
outreach events and opportunities to engage the
community. These included Circles meetings,
presentations to College/University classes, Road
to Success and Poverty Simulations
Utilizing IACC Shared Measurement
MPRs, We Can See That Over the Last
Four Years in Dubuque, VISTAs Have:
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Dubuque VISTA’s Fours Years of Advancing
Economic Opportunity
•188 system processes were put in
place or enhanced as a result of
capacity building services
•474 economically disadvantaged
individuals received financial literacy
services
•60 economically disadvantaged
individuals were placed in jobs
VISTA’s Recruited and Managed 2,208 Volunteers Who Served a
Total of 26,679.77 Hours During the Last Four Years.
$628,575.38
Dollar Value of Volunteer Time
The VISTA Program Has Made a Measurable Impact on Dubuque
Initiatives Focused on Economic Opportunity Over the Last Four
Years.
The Program Hopes to Make an Even Greater Impact as The
Focuses Shifts to Academic Achievement
Academic Achievement Focus and My Brother's
Keeper (MBK)Initiative
The shift from economic opportunity to academic achievement
ultimately means shifting the future Dubuque VISTA’s efforts to
programs and initiatives that have an education focus.
The success of this transition is one that the previous VISTAs have
been laying the groundwork for. The MBK initiative, whose
partnership has an education focus, has been geared to reap the
benefits of the work being done by the economic opportunity
focused VISTAs.
Key Developmental
Groundwork Has
Been Established to
Further the Success
of the Dubuque
VISTA Program as
it Shifts to
Academic
Achievement.
Resources to Further The My Brother's Keeper Initiative
and its Academic Achievement-Oriented Goals:
1.Construction of an internship and volunteer manual
2.Development of MBK-oriented internship system and
positions
3.Establishment of a communication resource to tell the
story of the initiative and its successes
4.The development of the communication resource
system manual
5.Established shared event calendar among MBK network
partners
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“People need to play an active role in addressing the
issues that affect their lives.”
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