Racial Equity and Social Justice

Summary of objective implementation status (achievements or progress over last year; significant delays or issues, etc.)

The way the County has established publicly available reports on racial equity in County policies, programs, and services, is through the racial equity analysis for significant board items process. Each item designated as having a potential significant impact on community, is required to do a racial equity analysis, which becomes part of the publicly available board item.  

Since October 2023, this effort has been staffed through an OOE Strategic Planning analyst, who has been able to focus racial equity analysis implementation efforts, ex. creating a new and consistent, fillable racial equity analysis template, following the questions in the GARE Racial Equity Toolkit, which was previously approved by the Board of Supervisors; create and facilitate racial equity analysis toolkit trainings and workshops; and offer one on one consultation and drop in hours for County employees and departments.

Key milestone update (include relevant metrics, if applicable)

In 2024, the OOE provided technical assistance and recommendations for sixteen racial equity analyses, which are publicly available on Legistar, and provided additional racial equity consulting and guidance to five county divisions.

Coordination and partnership update

The Office of Equity is in close collaboration with the County Administrator’s Office to provide technical support for the utilization of the GARE Racial Equity Toolkit Analyses (REA) for significant Board items.

The Office of Equity also works closely with inter-departmental partners, providing guidance, assistance and other support, in order to weave the racial equity analysis findings back into program design.

Community, equity and climate update

The reports on racial equity in County policies, programs, and services can be found in the Legistar board item, and look for the attachment titled, Racial Equity Analysis.

If this objective received Strategic Plan funding, please provide amount spent to date for non-position related funding.

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