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How do we raise up community leaders who can serve on parent advisory committees? Take my place when i step aside? Ford for a long time would do leadership training, that has gone by wayside. Something similar in school systems. Help admin identify potential leaders among parents. Strong parent leaders. support interested parents, mentoring, meet with established leaders.

Strong Parent Advisory Group = parents who aren't afraid to speak up for the needs of their children, what a quality education should consist of. Feel welcomed, affirmed. Equal opportunity to share opinions no matter how outlandish appear to educators. Administration who understands value of parent involvement.

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Parent leadership council: have parents involved, inclusive of our community and reflective of our community and local culture while embracing differences across the region. Our group understands these different priority areas have different cultures and different communities and priorities. Same community, different lived experience.

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Community Leadership Development
The next five - ten years will see a generational shift among the community leaders in my community.
Vision:
People that are constantly refreshing a vision for a flourishing community, giving all an opportunity to be welcome at every level of participation.

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Refining Vision: gaps and opportunities: STEVE

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Refining Vision: gaps and opportunities: STEVE

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Gaps: lack of communication. With no local media (ie newspaper, radio) relying on social media is challenging - a significant # of area residents have no access to reliable internet, and among those who have access their ability is limited by many factors: fear of 'breaking' their hardware/software; fears of being tracked; poor time management in general...
Gap: failure to define 'community.' Without a shared vision communities flounder or flock to the loudest voices.
Gap: no clear leadership development track. While on the job training is effective, people should have opportunity to learn and grow into roles they feel comfortable with.

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Professional advisory committees - normalizing equity. To each of us as individuals and as collective. Different cultures represented, normalize different cultures. Something like this group. Group embracing and tackling hard equity issues. Being sensative and noticing in day to days.

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Diversifying our staff - we will have staff in each class room that look like children, speak their language, including having male staff. Children and families feel welcomed and supported and accepted. Be more naturally occurring.

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We have English speaking and bilingual English/Spanish staff. However we aren't able to hire staff that solely speak Spanish or other languages than English, as we have to be able to communicate with them and have them be able to communicate with families and children without using a device. We also don't have enough bilingual staff to be in every classroom that has Spanish speaking children.

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We don't have enough Spanish bilingual staff to have them in all classrooms that have Spanish speaking children and families. We don't have bilingual Ukranian staff to work with our Ukranian speaking families, or any other languages that staff are bilingual in.

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Attendees have chosen to come to the table.  Whose voices are we not hearing?

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Attendees have chosen to come to the table.  Whose voices are we not hearing?

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Building Family Leadership Council as we have identified parents are a missing link in our equity work.  To be able to address equity appropriately, we need to have parent voice more centered in the work.

Our committees often look similar. Having new insight and more diverse representation is a gap and a goal of our current work.

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What kind of outreach do we need to try?  How do we know what we don't know about possibilities?

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What kind of outreach do we need to try?  How do we know what we don't know about possibilities?

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The vision I have as it relates to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is to have an increased level of parent voice/input/activity in our program.
Why: This effort will assist our program in reducing assumptions we have regarding the families we serve, assist us in knowing/understanding our families needs, and increase representation/voices.

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How do we start with the members we currently have to explore what's possible as far as representation from other cultures?

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How do we start with the members we currently have to explore what's possible as far as representation from other cultures?

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Assess barriers to hiring a diverse pool of staff.
Advertise specifically for bilingual staff in the languages our children and families speak.
Research applications for learning to speak a second language.
Reach out to UCC instructors who teach English Language, could there be a partnership for recruitment?

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What do current members think about diverse input?

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What do current members think about diverse input?

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Too few people engaged in far too many community groups. those engaged in leadership and support are VERY similar in lived experience. Currently there is no strategy for identifying individuals with different lived experiences, people from different cultures who might be interested in serving.
There is a lack of communication between various groups. Some groups are working on essentially the same project/idea.

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What will be added to the collective with diverse voices?

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What will be added to the collective with diverse voices?

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How to balance the state ELD requirements for diverse voices and the current status of local participants mindset?

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How to balance the state ELD requirements for diverse voices and the current status of local participants mindset?

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No effective way to communicate betwen groups.
Lack of clear and consistent vision of our community - what is the heart and soul of the Winston area?
Lack of consistent messaging. The city officially has a vision statement, but it is not often communicated with the various community groups working on projects in the community.

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We elicit very little input, if any, from our families with the exception of periodic surveys that are required. The past 2-3 years only encouraged and potentially provided an excuse for this gap as engagement was never stellar to begin with.

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Explore the Gap questions and progress to include more information.

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Explore the Gap questions and progress to include more information.

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Staff are comfortable not having parent input - talking with adults isn't an easy task when you simply love working with children.
We have (potentially) created an environment where families do not feel welcome or as if their voice has power

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People have different backgrounds and are thoughtfully engaged at their place of need based on race, class, or other differences. Whatever their needs are, whatever they are struggling with – there is a resource I can connect them to. Anybody wanting childcare or preschool is able to access it.

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Create a welcoming community where we engage in authentic conversation with our families.
Take items our families shared and implement those ideas, address their concerns, invite them to come share with our staff and children.

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Work with community partners to reach diverse families to have representation for our priority populations and that is reflective of our regional community and population.