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Racism is everywhere and many of us are experiencing the impact daily. This racial equity work is personal and professional. We need to feel deeply, in a mindful accepting and nonjudgmental  way. Keep showing up, keep speaking up, keeping encouraging and supporting each other, and keep doing the work.

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Racism is everywhere and many of us are experiencing the impact daily. This racial equity work is personal and professional. We need to feel deeply, in a mindful accepting and nonjudgmental  way. Keep showing up, keep speaking up, keeping encouraging and supporting each other, and keep doing the work.

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Diversity and equity benefits everyone.

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Most commonly seen in my work in recruitment - access to resources and opportunities.

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Don't just preach to the choir - but spread these messages to leadership

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These presentations help me understand history and recognize that though we've made some strides, we have a long way to go.

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We start with each individual person to share their story and collectively work together to learn about racial equity to hep us inform our work and service to the field. We are embarking on a journey, as a team of agents of change, to go through a CoP and complete a D&I and Equity certification with eCornell. We also are committed to continued learning together, speaking truth to power, being accountable to one another, and the commitment to change, when necessary, so we can stay ready for the work.

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Being intentional about lifting the territories, their history, the current inequities and the many things that they bring to the child care system.

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Have been generalized as a group - asked to represent all Natives

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were taught to believe we are ALL from the Creator.  Complex and foreign to understand the concept of racism.  Taught that we are all in this together

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working at the state systems level, our work is to support states in examining and revising structurally racist systems and meeting them where they are, e.g. "we treat everyone the same" so we don't need to worry about racial equity

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how much the narrative and stories have changed

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Even reaches spaces we don't often think about - like environmental and facilities

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feeling fortuntate to be part of Head Start historically created in response to inequities

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far-reaching nature of inequity

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Protective factors - we are still playing the game

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intentionality - how can we have impact in our work