Equitable Brownsfield Revitalization: Tools for Progress. Building Local Economies for Local Communities Tool Kit #3. Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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1 Equitable Brownsfield Revitalization: Tools for Progress Building Local Economies for Local Communities Tool Kit #3 Wednesday, May 15, 2013

2 PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY Mission: Partnership for Southern Equity pushes for policies and actions that promote equity and inclusive prosperity in metropolitan Atlanta. Through forums, research, and organizing efforts, we bring together our regional community to lift up and encourage just, sustainable, and civic practices for balanced growth and opportunity. Goals: Leverage our combined assets to advance and coordinate regional equity activities utilizing the Shared Prosperity framework as our platform. Influence how local and regional decisions are made as they pertain to growth, development, and opportunity structures in metropolitan Atlanta. Highlight and support opportunities for Equitable Development and their positive impact on low wealth populations and communities of color. Promote and encourage equitable opportunities for inclusiveness, quality growth, and regional competitiveness. Support, develop, and position a multigenerational cadre of leaders and policy innovations for Regional Equity. Grow a REGIONAL EQUITY MOVEMENT comprised of diverse stakeholders and organizations representing the ten (10) county metropolitan Atlanta region

Goals: Leverage our combined assets to advance and coordinate regional equity activities utilizing the Shared Prosperity framework as our platform.

3 Economic Opportunity and Jobs Circle

4 Promote a continuum of economic opportunity for vulnerable populations in metropolitan Atlanta: Leveraging partnerships among PSE membership to identify economic opportunity support among local/regional employers that will either experience large personnel loss due to retirement and/or witnessing a need for skilled labor. Organize place-based skill development hubs to advance education and training to low skill workers in the region: Framing a community college and non-profit training strategy to accelerate employment education, certification, and on the job training opportunities drawing on the importance of equity and regional competitiveness. Drive workforce development research, and public policy: Develop skill development research, data, and policy to create inclusive methodologies to employment for marginalized groups like veterans, youth, and reentry populations in the regional workforce.

Organize place-based skill development hubs to advance education and training to low skill workers in the region: Framing a community college and non-profit training strategy to accelerate employment

5 National Statistics for Young Men of Color - The twelfth-grade reading scores of African American males were significantly lower than those of men and women across every other racial and ethnic group. - Only 14% of African American eighth graders score at or above the proficient level. This fact reveals that millions of young people cannot understand or evaluate basic text, or provide relevant details about information they have read. - On average, African American twelfth-grade students Text read at the same level as White eighth-grade students. - 54% of African Americans graduate from high school, compared to more than three quarters of White and Asian students. - The majority of the 2.3 million people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails are people of color; people with mental health issues and drug addiction; people with low levels of educational attainment; and people with a history of unemployment or underemployment.

This fact reveals that millions of young people cannot understand or evaluate basic text, or provide relevant details about information they have read.

6 Metro Atlanta High School Graduation Statistics Cobb & Gwinnett Counties Gwinnett County had a 58% graduation rate amongst African American males, and Cobb County had a 51% graduation rate amongst African American males. Both were notably higher than the national and state average of 47% and 43% respectively. Dekalb & Fulton Dekalb County's graduation rate amongst African American males was 46%, which is 1% lower than the national average of 47% and 3% higher Text than the state average of 43%. Fulton County's graduation rate amongst African American males was 2% lower than the national average and also 2% higher than the state average, with a graduation rate of 45%. Clayton County & Atlanta In the Clayton County Public Schools, the graduation rate of African American males was 37%, 10% lower than the national average and 6% lower than the state average. Lastly, the Atlanta Public School System had the lowest graduation rates amongst African American males at 34%, which is 13% lower than the national average and 9% lower than the state average.

Dekalb & Fulton Dekalb County's graduation rate amongst African American males was 46%, which is 1% lower than the national average of 47% and 3% higher Text than the state average of 43%.

7 Organizations that provided information about economic barriers and opportunities for Young Men of Color in metro Atlanta The Atlanta Regional Commission Atlanta Area Technical College Georgia Power Impact Church The Atlanta Metropolitan Chamber The Center for Working Families The Urban League Year Up Atlanta 7

Commission Atlanta Area Technical College Georgia Power Impact Church The

8 Effective Strategies for Assisting Young Men of Color Collaborations with PSE and other workforce development programs to advocate for changes in policies that hamper our participants from obtaining employment are desperately needed. We are extremely interested in collaborating with organizations that have strong networks which will allow us to build our community service brand and recruit good employees. New and innovative entrepreneurship opportunities can not be offered to high wealth communities exclusively and access to reliable public transportation should not only be in metro Atlanta tourist districts. We need an equitable distribution of both jobs and transportation for metro Atlanta to be competitive. Partnering to create awareness about the value of young men of color to our economy and working to change the systemic policies that unjustly keep them in poverty is of great interest to our organization. 8

9 Network of Mutuality We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

10 Network of Mutuality Shared Destiny mantra serves as spiritual foundation of PSE Silo Busting promotes Text collaboration for systems change (Policy Change + Institutional Change) Power With (Partnership & Collaboration) vs. Power Over (Domination & Control)

systems change (Policy Change + Institutional Change) Power With

11 EQUITY ECO-SYSTEM A Equity Eco-System is formed when equity centered organizations and fairness champions coalesce as a community to influence the established systems that effect their social, political, economic and natural environments. -Nathaniel Smith, Chief Equity Officer for The Partnership for Southern Equity

established systems that effect their social, political, economic and natural

12 How Can PSE Support Your Organization? Advocate for Changes to Policies that Limit Employment Opportunities Share Community Data, Research and Resources Help Spread the Word about Economic Development Successes Help Organizations to Expand there Network Collaborate to Convene and Facilitate Conversations for Fair Economic Growth and Development in the Region

Data, Research and Resources Help Spread the Word about Economic Development Successes

13 References Fact Sheet: Outcomes for Young, Black Men Tavis Smiley... (n.d.). Retrieved from Graduation Rates Amongst African American Male Students in... (n.d.). Retrieved from african-american-male-students html 13

14 TOGETHER WE PROSPER!

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