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Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Work Session Copyright 2014 City of Dubuque Work Session # 1. ITEM TITLE: 5:15 PM- Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Work Session SUMMARY: City staff and partners to present on the quarterly accomplishments and actions of Inclusive Dubuque. SUGGESTED DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENTS: Description Type Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Work Session-MVM Memo City Manager Memo Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Update Staff Memo Inclusive Dubuque Presentation Supporting Documentation THE CITY OF Dubuque UBE I erica .i Masterpiece on the Mississippi 2007-2012-2013 TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members FROM: Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager SUBJECT: Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Work Session DATE: April 12, 2016 Human Rights Director Kelly Larson is transmitting information for the Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Work Session. // S4-Z�2=" Micliael C. Van Milligen MCVM:jh Attachment cc: Barry Lindahl, City Attorney Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager Teri Goodmann, Assistant City Manager Kelly Larson, Human Rights Department Director THE CITY OF Dubuque DT TIR F �J L L 1111 enIa II 1IIIh' Masterpiece on the Mississippi 2009.2012.2013 TO: Mike Van Milligan, City Manager FROM: Kelly Larson, Human Rights Department Director DATE: April 12, 2016 RE: Inclusive Dubuque Quarterly Work Session A work session has been scheduled for the evening of April 18, 2016, for the purpose of providing an Inclusive Dubuque quarterly update to the Council. This memo provides a written background of Inclusive Dubuque accomplishments as a supplement to the Monday evening presentation. 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 50 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. Inclusive Dubuque Network — Accomplishments this Quarter: 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 have been established around each of the core areas of the equity profile: economic wellbeing, housing, health, education, neighborhood safety, Arts & Culture, and transportation. Over 90 community members are participating in these groups. In November and December, the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, and the City of Dubuque partnered to bring Dan Duncan with the 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. Since that time, each working group has applied Results Based Accountability (RBA) to identify a community-wide result (or outcome) for their focus area and key indicators that can assist us in tracking our progress over time. Dan Duncan will be returning to Dubuque on April 28 and 29 to continue working with the network partners. Detailed information on working group progress is available on-line at http://inclusivedbg.org/workinq-groups/. A brief update also will be provided at the work session. City as a Network Partner— Accomplishments this Quarter: Intentional efforts have been made inside the organization to engage City staff in the Inclusive Dubuque efforts as well. 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. A core team of staff from within the City organization has developed a template for department level equity plans and is in the process of developing proposed outcomes, indicators, and performance measures that can be used by departments to develop strategies and track their progress. The indicators and performance measures being proposed include disaggregating data by race, as data collected during the equity profile 2 and concerns raised by the Voluntary Compliance Agreement demonstrate the need for a targeted focus on race at the current time. Departments are being encouraged to develop equity plans around three goals: 1) advancing racial equity by recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce within their departments; 2) advancing racial equity by ensuring their department's services are delivered in equitable ways; and 3) advancing racial equity by partnering with others to impact priorities identified by Inclusive Dubuque. In March of this year, the National League of Cities awarded a first-place award to the City of Dubuque as part of the 2016 National League of Cities (NLC) City Cultural Diversity Awards. The City of Dubuque was recognized for the role City Council and staff played in supporting Inclusive Dubuque through significant leadership and financial support, and successful efforts to engage a diverse group of staff and residents in the initiative. Actions by Other Network Partners Each network partner determines how they can contribute to the Inclusive Dubuque vision by "doing what they do best." A few examples of early actions of other network partners will be provided by those partners as part of the work session presentation. Action Requested This memo is background for the work session on April 18 and is being provided for your information. No action is requested. cc: Eric Dregne, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Community Foundation Katrina Ferren-Eller, Inclusive Dubuque Coordinator, Community Foundation 3 INCLUSIVE dubuque Connecting People * Strengthening Community Inclusive Dubuque is a local network of community leaders from faith, labor, education and government dedicated to advancing justice and social equity in our community. - - - - - - - - - - - - economicr AL Inclusive Dubuque is a peer- learning network of partners committed to needs DubuqueInctusive Network Partners 365ink Operation New View 4 the People, Inc. John Deere Dubuque Works Alliant Energy Julien's Journal Boy Scouts of America Kendall Hunt Publishing Company Children of Abraham Loras College City of Dubuque LULAC Clarke University Medical Associates Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque Mercy Medical Center D5 Mississippi River Museum Diamond Jo Casino Multicultural Family Center Diversity Focus Mystique Casino Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce NAACP - Dubuque Branch Dubuque Area Congregations United NAMI Dubuque Dubuque Area Convention and Visitors Bureau Northeast Iowa Community College Dubuque Area Labor Management Council Opening Doors - Maria House/Teresa Shelter Dubuque Community School District Progressive Processing LLC Dubuque Community YMCA and YWCA Project Concern Dubuque Franciscans Prudential Dubuque Racing Association Sisters of Charity, BVM Dubuque Museum of Art St. Mark Youth Enrichment Everyday Democracy Surdna Foundation Government Alliance on Race and Equity The Grand Opera House Greater Dubuque Development Corporation TH Media Helping Services of Northeast Iowa United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States Hillcrest Family Services UnityPoint Finley Hospital IBM University of Dubuque Interactivity Foundation University of Wisconsin-Platteville Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Wartburg Seminary " Equality is the idea of everyone getting a shirt ; equity is the notion that everyone gets a shirt that fits . " Gene Batiste ` ► 0� +� 7 0 R o Al 110, History of Dubuque Community Mobilization Sep: Chamber launches Minority and Planning Business Council @ Chamber Diversity Summit Oct: Community Equity Profile —10 complete Early Warning CVB integrates cultural Nov: Working Groups form competency into around Equity Profile priorities com Business leaders P Y identify opportunity training modules Community July: NICC expands Equity Profile minority outreach begins Au GDDC Gathering of Implementation g' Partners rGovernment joins Implements Inclusive Dubuque Alliance Entrepreneur Strategy Launched ace Et Equity MOBILIZATION CTION ' Inclusive Dubuque 1 . Organizes people • Inclusive Dubuque network • Community members 2 . Identifies opportunities • Community equity profile • Results Based Accountability 3 . Takes action to challenge and change social and economic structures • Working groups • Equity action plan • Strengthening the network Community Equity Profile FIB: ECONOMIC rot JUNE: SAFE WELLBEING tfZ NEIGHBORHOODS MARCH: JULY: HOUSING TRANSPORTATION APRIL: AUG: EDUCATION ARTS/CULTURE MAY: rl HEALTH a * ty Profi I e Strong community participation : COMMUNITY 1 , 995 24 ENGAGEMENT Community members Facilitators have been completed online surveys trained as of July 1 Community 584 305 60 dialogues have been held Community members Community members have attended dialogues signed up to stay connected Community Equity Profile Summary Equity • website od .q 1 Working Groups • Over 90 participants are involved in working groups . • Housing, transportation, health , economic wellbeing, education, thriving/ safe neighborhoods, and arts and culture • Groups are establishing their population result and indicators, and will be using collective impact and collaboration with other groups to move the equity and inclusion needle in their focus areas. 6 Health Equity Working Group • Purpose • Membership • Data Sources • Process Health 1uity Working Group Preliminary Findings : • Access to mental health services • Central information source • Affordable options for health and wellness • Gaps in substance abuse services Result: There is safe, affordable, and accessible housing for all . Indicators: 1 . % of population that owns a home 2 . % of population paying more than 30% of income on housing (cost burden ) 3 . % of neighborhoods that are affordable 4. # of homeless 5 . % of homes with housing problems ( HUD) 6 . % of vacant homes by neighborhood FM Economic Wellbeing Result : Every individual has equitable opportunity to reach their full potential that leads to equitable life outcomes. Education Result: A community-wide system that supports educational success that leads to equitable life outcomes. Indicators: 1 . Less barriers to this community wide system that leads to educational success 2. Career path employment 3 . Increase engagement (orgs in the community) with participating in educational opportunities, volunteer hours 4. HS grad rates 4college grad 5. Access to the Internet Arts and Culture Result: All people are empowered to engage comfortably in experiencing, developing, and expressing creativity, their own and that of others. Indicators: 1 . % of groups who participate in arts and culture events 2. % of new participants in events from different groups 3 . % or # of new creations/events 4. % of groups aware of where to find arts and culture information 5. # or % of events reflective of groups in the community 6. # or % of arts and culture events used as an intervention to community problems L Transportation Result: All who live in Dbq have access to bus stops, sidewalks, or shared use paths within a 5 minute (quarter mile) walk at all times. Possible Indicators: 1 . Increased ridership of the Jule 2. Less cars on the road 3. Less parking permits 4. # of bike racks in the city 5. # of bikes on a bus 6. # of people using the trails 7. # of miles of bike lanes, shared roads 8. Policy knowledge (everyone knows the bike rules) ThrivinglSafe Neighborhoods Result: In a thriving and safe neighborhood, all residents accept shared responsibility for the wellbeing of their neighborhood . Indicators: 1 . Basic needs are met, including food, shelter, work, greenspace, health, education, etc. 2. Community leaders (advocates) who are representative of the neighborhood . 3 . Clean and well maintained 4. Positive outside perception of neighborhood (all feel welcome to go there) 5. Low crime rate The Network @ Work Sharon Covey: Restorative Strategies Matt Daughenbaugh : Safe Zone Training/ Generational Concerns Peter Smith : UD recruitment and retention Erin VanLaningham : Cultural Competency Honors Program Pauline Chilton : 4 the People Stacia McDermott: Children of Abraham Art Roche: Marshallese Project Kelly Larson : City of Dubuque LORAS COLLEGE HONORS PROGRAM Dr. Erin VanLaningham, Director • Fosters Independent, Creative Research beyond Academic Majors • Provides experiences that cultivate skills professional, community ties, real world problems • 3 year interdisciplinary group project (14 projects, approximately 60 students) • Community Based partnerships o Non-profits, schools, businesses, community groups • Cultural Training and Experiences • Sample Projects: 1). Sustainable Dubuque Grant: Dual Flush Toilet Converters 2). Maker Space Technology and Youth Education (Carnegie Stout Library Grant) 3). Mental Health and Middle School Youth (Mazzuchelli Middle School) 4). Solar Power/Loras College, Veterans Issues, STEM Education, Dream Park for Special Needs Kids 4 THE PEOPLE Supports solutions for enhancing the quality of life for diverse communities. ABOUT SAFE PASSAGE: SAFE PASSAGE KEY BENEFITS: Military veterans — Building positive relationships to serve as mentors, between students and caring adults stand at bus stops, — Reduce opportunities for violence and ride public — Safer healthier neighborhoods buses with students — Students excelling academically in order to mitigate and showing improved attendance and prevent violence among — Helping veterans pay down student children and teens. loan or medical debt f�,A Ckjldrcn o Akrakam Mission Statement: Dubuque's Children of Abraham creates an atmosphere of civic life that builds inter-religious solidarity, cooperation, and friendship. It does so through regular monthly topical conversations, service, activities, education outreach, and expressions of cross-cultural hospitality in sacred spaces. Children of Abraham Conversations: (Thursdays at fpm) • September 17: Angels, Demons, and Jinn — Loras College • October 15: Scripture Study — Qur'an — Wartburg Seminary • November 19: The Purpose of Life — Temple Beth-EI • January 28: Scripture Study — Torah — Clarke University • February 18: Coming of Age — Tri-State Islamic Center • March 10: Scripture Study — Bible — University of Dubuque • April 21: Faces of our Faiths — St. Luke's United Methodist Church, 1199 Main St Children of Abraham Activities & Hospitality Festivals: • September 27: Peace/Anti Gun Violence Rally - UD Blades Chapel Speakers include Rev. Jeremy Brigham • September 29: Sukkoth — Tuesday. Temple Beth EI at 5:30pm includes dinner. • October 24 (in conjunction with Make-a-Difference Day): 10th of Muharram. • January 31: Songs of the Soul: an Interfaith Celebration of Chant, Sinsinawa Mounds, 3 pm. • April 10: Pan-Orthodox Lenten Vespers, Wartburg Seminary, 5:30 pm. To learn more about Children of Abraham : • www.cofabraham .org • https ://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=sHWg4Xfmwk o (search Children of Abraham Dubuque on YouTube) �e y '3 t._ t Dubuque Marshall IslandsHealth Project The Challenge : • Poverty • Diabetes, Hypertension * Language • CO FA Dubuque Marshall IslandsHealth Project lam M The Response : • Bok Eddos (Community Health Workers) • Improved interpretation/translation • Advocacy for improved benefits City of Dubuque • Results Based Accountability • Department equity plans: - Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce - Delivering services in equitable ways - Partnering to impact Inclusive Dubuque priorities " People need to play an active role in addressing the issues that affect their lives . " Grantmakers for Effective Organization - Do Nothing About Me Without Me: An Action Guide for Engaging Stakeholders 'r► M� notN% AA , - ,! ..�