25th Anniversary Racial Justice in Motion

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For 25 years Catalyst California has advanced racial justice through building multiracial solidarity, forging deep connections with people across geography and identity, and believing that truth is the basis for transformative social change that makes the lives of Californians better. 

We kicked off the 25th Anniversary at Race & Politics – Solidarity in Movement in March.


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Accountability Systems

Babies and Toddlers

The Early Years are Critical to Setting a Strong Foundation

Babies are Rapidly Acquiring Language and Knowledge of the World Around Them

Supporting Babies to Thrive Gives Them Opportunities to Succeed and Build Resilience

Babies and Toddlers in LA County Report

Building California's Future: Tackling the Facilities Challenge for Our Youngest Learners

Uplifting the Assets of California's Dual Language Learners in the Early Years

Uplifting Family Voices: Family Engagement in California’s Rate Reform & Quality Initiative

The research is clear that the healthy growth, learning, and overall well-being of our babies and toddlers is directly connected to the well-being of their families and community. Supporting babies and toddlers to thrive means supporting families and communities to thrive. It is critical that the state intentionally centers whole child, whole family policies and resources for our babies’ and toddlers’ healthy development and growth.

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Bringing Up California

Built Environment

California Partnership for the Future of Learning

California Racial Equity Coalition

California Redistricting

Care First

Centering Equity for L.A. County’s Redistricting Cycle

Community Safety Solutions

Decrease the Role of Law Enforcement

Dual Language Learners

ECE Facilities

Early Care & Education

Equitable Economic Investments

Equitable Funding

Equitable and Common Sense Charging Policies

Fair Redistricting

About the Program

Funding Racial Justice- Local Budget Basics

That's a Wrap: Inaugural Funding Racial Justice Budget Advocacy Training Program

Funding Racial Justice: Budget Advocacy Training for Community Power

Government Responsiveness to Racial Inequity

Healthy Built Environment

Justice Reinvestment

K-12 Education Policy

Los Angeles Office of Racial Equity (ORE)

The LA City scandal has caused deep wounds across communities and exposed inequities in how city government operates. While the political and civic leaders involved in the scandal must be held accountable, intercommunity healing and a more equitable future will require more than just resignations. A new vision of city governance is needed, and that vision needs to be rooted in and shaped by the perspectives of BIPOC and low-income Angelenos. In collaboration with residents, OUR LA will work to realize this vision and advance a community-based reform agenda. 

OUR LA - Organize | Unite | Reform LA

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This November, LA County voters will have the option to begin a process of fundamentally reshaping how the County Government operates. Unlike the City of Los Angeles, which took a methodical approach over nearly two years to identify modest governance reforms, the County has brought sweeping reforms to voters in less than a month with Measure G. Like many others, Organize, Unite, Reform LA (OUR LA) is still analyzing these reforms and their potential implications on our communities. 

OUR LA Statement: County Governance Reform Measure G

Participatory Budgeting

Police Reform

Prosecutorial Reform

Quality in Early Care and Education

Racially Just Schools of Belonging

California’s public schools and early childhood learning spaces serve children of all races, religions, and economic backgrounds, so they can grow and thrive. As advocates, we have long worked to make these spaces safe, inclusive, and affirming where joyful learning can happen for every child. But under the Trump administration, this diverse education system is under serious threat. 

Resources for Safe Schools in Challenging Times

Student Equity Need Index

Furthers LCFF’s vision by prioritizing the allocation of resources to high-need schools to better address inequities.

Strengthens shared-power and shared-decision making between district and community.

Provides additional flexible funding for school sites.

Equity Alliance for LA's Kids

SENI in the Context of COVID

LAUSD's SENI Website

Racial Justice Equity Plan to Recovery

On a Podcast: Budgeting for Educational Equity

Transparency

Whole Child

Youth Development

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Race Counts

Reimagining Justice & Safety

Two years ago this week, we launched RACE COUNTS with our partners. It was dedicated (then and now) to helping community leaders and elected officials envision, measure, and fight for racial equity. The innovative web tool was the first to rank California’s counties by racial disparity across a comprehensive set of issue areas and indicators. We’re thankful for those who’ve used RACE COUNTS to advocate for more equitable policies in their communities.

In year one, we built upon the performance, disparity, and impact framework we developed for counties and rolled out similar data for the 135 most populous cities in the state. In year two, we took a step back and asked advocates what they liked most about the tool and what changes they’d make. In year three, we’re implementing that feedback to make RACE COUNTS better than it’s ever been before. To date, we’ve:

Added a state profile page, enabling comparisons with counties and soon with cities.

Added new indicators, including chronic absenteeism, got help, arrests for status offenses, and use of force. These indicators reflect the importance advocates place on school connectedness, mental health, and policing of our youth and communities.

Added new linkages to the site. For example, it’s now easier to move from a scatterplot of data to its related bar chart and to get data by state, county, and city for the same issue area.

RACE COUNTS isn’t only for community activists and elected officials; we use it, too, to fuel our own work. For example, our RACE COUNTS research found that criminal justice was the most racially disparate issue area among all seven reviewed. As a result, we’ve dedicated a lot of thought and work to criminal justice campaigns in the years since.

We’ll continue to improve RACE COUNTS next year for both internal and external work. Here are some upcoming highlights:

An easier to use website with more straightforward context, navigation, and linkages to data

Data for new geographies, including State Senate and Assembly districts

More indicators, including in the Housing and Democracy issue areas

Thank for your support, and we look forward to sharing the results with you and finding out what you think!

Two years ago this week, we launched RACE COUNTS with our partners. It was dedicated (then and now) to helping community leaders and elected officials envision, measure, and fight for racial equity. The innovative web tool was the first to rank California’s counties by racial disparity across a comprehensive set of issue areas and indicators. …

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Happy Anniversary to RACE COUNTS!