In order to transform the St. Louis region towards Racial Equity, we need to understand the history and context behind harmful systems and learn best practices for working against and dismantling those systems. FTF’s community accountability and advocacy tools give an overview of the systems we’re attempting to change that is grounded in the lived experience of people most impacted by systemic racism and injustice. Our tools offer original data and research, policy recommendations, best practices, and storytelling to inform and empower Racial Equity advocates. Use and share FTF’s advocacy tools below.
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Forward Through Ferguson (FTF) creates tools and resources for advocates seeking to transform our signature priority areas: Youth At The Center, Justice For All, and Opportunity To Thrive.
Transforming 911
Transforming 911 is a report that provides an overview of our region’s 911 landscape by analyzing 911 calls made to St. Louis County Police Department
Still Unequal
Still Unequal focuses on the ways our education system is still separate and unequal in many ways even 60 years after Brown vs the Board of Education
Still Compromising
The pandemic and its disproportionate effects on Black St. Louisans pulled back the veil on our broken and inequitable systems. In this series we explore how COVID-19 has laid bare the ways we continue to compromise on our shared values and how we can use this crisis as an opportunity to catalyze Racial Equity. #StillCompromising
State of the Report
State of the Report is Forward Through Ferguson’s first report tracking the 189 calls to action in the original Ferguson Commission Report
State of Police Reform
The State of Police Reform is the follow up to the State of the Report, and focuses specifically on the successes and challenges of police reform in our region
Power Behind the Badge
The Power Behind the Badge series seeks to demystify the power of scope of the police through budget analysis and power mapping
Falling Through Cracks
“Falling Through the Cracks: Disparities in Out of School Suspension in St. Louis at the Intersection of Race, Disability, and Gender” investigated how race, sex, and disability came together to affect risk of out of school suspensions (OSS) for kindergartners through 12th graders in the St. Louis region. This report used data from the 2015-16 school year.
Equity Indicators
The Equity Indicators Project is in response to the Ferguson Commission’s call to action for a racial equity benchmarking process. The Project will quantify the state of racial equity in St. Louis and measure progress over time
#STL2039 Action Plan
The #STL2039 Action Plan shared Forward Through Ferguson’s Three Action Strategies and Equation for Equity that defined our work between 2018 and 2021, to move the region closer to #STL2039. #STL2039 is our goal to achieve “A transformed St. Louis region where, regardless of race and ZIP code, there is justice for all, the opportunity to thrive, and boundless possibility for all of our youth.”
Advancing Positive Change Toolkit
The Advancing Positive Change toolkit seeks to map out the underlying conditions that led to the events in Ferguson in August 2014, highlight the community’s response, and share some of the key lessons learned in the process. This toolkit was created for the 2017 National Urban League Conference in partnership with the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis.
Ferguson Commission Report
The Ferguson Commission report is a report for St. Louis residents and policymakers alike; a study of underlying issues that contributed to the events in Ferguson, the Ferguson uprising, and the response that followed; a narrative that outlines a path and is the beginning of the work ahead; and an invitation to be unflinching in addressing the realities and struggles in St. Louis in order to move forward towards Racial Equity.