- Racial Equity
- Justice for All
- Authorizing Appropriate Use of Force
- Conducting Just Use of Force Investigations
- Encouraging Appropriate Use of Technology in Citizen-Law Enforcement Interactions
- Encouraging Efficiency and Transparency
- Expanding Civilian Oversight
- Facilitating Efficiency Through Consolidation of Police Departments
- Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness Through Consolidation of Municipal Courts
- Improving Officer Training
- Increasing Awareness of Rights and Procedures
- Preventing Conflicts of Interest
- Promoting Officer Wellness
- Protecting Rights and Effectively Administering Courts
- Re-Envisioning Response to Demonstration
- Redefining Courts’ Response to Nonviolent Offenses
- Restoring Relations Through Community Policing
- Strengthening Anti-Bias and Cultural Competency
- Summary of Terms
- Utilizing Community-Based Alternatives to Traditional Sentencing
- Youth at the Center
- Building Safe and Trauma-Informed Environments
- Ending Childhood Hunger
- Enhancing Auxiliary Services’ Ability to Support Youth
- Enhancing College Access and Affordability
- Fostering Innovation and Organizational Capacity
- Increasing Access to Care for Children
- Monitoring Child Well-being
- Optimizing School Accreditation and Transfers
- Promoting Lifelong Wellness and Personal Development
- Providing Quality Early Childhood Education
- Providing Rigorous Primary and Secondary Education
- Reforming School-Based Discipline
- Summary of Terms – Youth at the Center
- Supporting Career Readiness
- Opportunity to Thrive
- Bolstering Employer-Educator Collaboration
- Building Equity through Enhanced Access to Banking
- Ending Poverty
- Enhancing Access to Transportation
- Ensuring Communities’ Ability to Advocate for Equity
- Ensuring Robust Minority Participation in the Job Market
- Increasing Access to Care
- Optimizing Existing Housing Support
- Prioritizing Youth-Focused Job Creation and Training
- Promoting Asset Building
- Realigning Incentives and Funding to Improve Job Training and Creation
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Calls to Action
Promoting Lifelong Wellness and Personal Development
Calls to Action Within This Area of Focus
Ensure Employer-Educator Collaborations Build a Love of Learning
Ensure all efforts and models designed to align K-12, higher education and workforce development support the social and emotional development of children, youth and young adults and broadly build life-long skills and a love of learning.
Develop School Leader and Teacher Support Infrastructure
Create a school leader and teacher cohort model that promotes well-being by building connectivity and support among peers, facilitates lifelong learning and idea exchange and a ensures a personal experience within an environment of trust, respect and confidentiality Model:Young Presidents Organization (YPO)
End Shame and Stigma
Develop a media campaign to minimize stigma/shame as a singular issue:A vast number of issues (hunger, mental health/illness, homelessness, obesity, poverty, incarceration, etc.) are compounded by the presence of stigma and shame. Showcase the fact that we all suffer from some stigma/shame and through these shared stories and conversations we can become more compassionate,…
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