TRUTH, RACIAL HEALING & TRANSFORMATION CAMPUS CENTER PLANS

1. TRUTH, RACIAL HEALING & TRANSFORMATION CAMPUS CENTER PLANS “Changing the Austin Community College and Central Texas Racial Narrative” Community Advancement Network Board of Directors Stephanie Hawley May 11, 2018

2. Transforming the Racial Narrative Launched in 2016, Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) is a comprehensive, national and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism. It seeks to unearth and jettison the deeply held, and often unconscious, beliefs created by racism – the main one being the belief in a hierarchy of human value. https://www.wkkf.org/what-we-do/racial-equity/truth-racial-healing-transformation

3. Campus Centers’ Charge The TRHT Campus Centers received an initial award to develop and implement visionary plans to uproot the conscious and unconscious biases and misbeliefs that have exacerbated racial violence and tension in American society. https://www.aacu.org/trht-campus-centers

4. TRHT FRAMEWORK

5. COMMUNITY PARTNERS IMPACT HUB AUSTIN Life Anew Restorative Justice

6. COMMUNITY PARTNERS Texas After Violence Project

7. COMMUNITY PARTNERS

8. Kellogg Foundation’s Healing Circles • Required core tactic to be embedded in all initiatives • Engages participants in reflection • Promotes truth-telling about past and current conditions • Fosters relationship building • Requires time for genuine connections • Values mindful inquiry • Leads to self-understanding • Increases cross-racial understanding • Promotes racial consciousness • Fosters a culture of acceptance

9. ASSESSMENT & ESTABLISHING THE BASELINE NARRATIVE Quantitative Data Review (ACC Student Success Report, CAN Dashboard, E3 Blueprint) Mayor’s Institutional Racism & Systemic Inequities Task Force April 2017 Report Campus Conversations Community Dialogues Town Hall Meetings Organization Power Analysis Equity Scorecard ATD Diversity Survey Equity Planning Tools Student Focus Groups & Interviews Truth & Racial Healing Campus Stories Media Scan Quality of Life Reports Racial Climate Surveys

10. What racial narrative are we transforming at ACC?

11. VISION Austin Community College (ACC) envisions a community where race, ethnicity, and other human differences are no longer predictors of success and well-being in any sector of the community. This includes the elimination of barriers (policies, practices, attitudes and cultural messages) that reinforce differential outcomes by race.

12. MISSION The Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Center focuses on eliminating system-inflicted trauma and its long-term deleterious impacts on the community.

13. GOALS • Eliminate racial disparities and disproportionality in disciplinary outcomes across P-16 institutions. 2. Eliminate racial disparities and disproportionality in academic outcomes across P-16 institutions. 3. Eliminate racial disparities and disproportionality in regional criminal justice outcomes.

14. GUIDING PRINCIPLES

15. STRATEGY OVERVIEW Family Advocacy Collaborative Family Advocacy Collaborative Healing Circles Education History Undoing Racism Principles The Economy The Arts Intersectionality News Media Culturally Responsive Teaching Institute Youth Academy Community Leadership Institute

16. Youth Leadership Academy Educate, engage and empower students for self-efficacy and self-advocacy to help promote institutional and systemic transformation to drive policy change for racial equity, inclusion and accountability.

17. Family Advocacy Coalition Educate, engage and empower families to promote institutional and systemic changes that drive racial equity, inclusion and accountability for racial equity.

18. Community Leadership Institute Educate, engage and empower community actors to become accountable leaders in truth-telling, racial healing and transformation in the organizations, industries and institutions they lead or will lead in the future.

19. Culturally Responsive Teaching Institute Educate, engage and empower regional P-16 teachers and faculty to develop racial consciousness; facilitate culturally responsive learning experiences; change narratives and teaching tools to empower students; and engage in practices to eliminate disparate outcomes in achievement and disciplinary action.

20. Economic Development Identify partners across industries and professional networks who will partner with the TRHT Campus Center to engage in and fund equity and inclusion training. Create educational and job training opportunities. Leverage relationships to engage Historically Underutilized Businesses at ACC and in Travis Co. and, or offer sponsorship of in-kind and monetary donations for the TRHT Campus Center. Participate in a comprehensive economic development plan with community stakeholders.

21. EVALUATION • Narrative change • Positive change in individual views of racial hierarchy • Institutional histories inclusive of all races • Relationship building • Individual growth through interracial relationship experiences • Organizational growth in cross-racial relationship experiences • Change in systemic outcomes -- Organizational Power Analysis • Elimination of disparities in educational outcomes and disciplinary action • Elimination of disproportionality in jail bookings • Increase in numbers of community leaders engaged in leadership for equity • Increase in numbers of educators engaged in CRT Institute • Increase in policies and practices implemented to eliminate barriers at partner organizations and agencies

22. QUESTIONS & SUGGESTIONS Contact Stephanie Hawley at shawley@austincc.edu