City Council Meeting
February 8, 2022
Item 3.4
Office of Racial Equity
Workplan Update
Presenters:
Zulma Maciel, Director
Andrea Truong, Racial Equity Manager
Chris Cambises, Immigrant Affairs Manager
Background
Purpose:
To inform the San Jose City Council on the accomplishments of the Office of Racial Equity to-date and path forward for FY 2021-2022 • Status report includes both racial equity and immigrant affairs work
Racial Equity: GARE Framework
Normalize Organize Operationalize
Racial Equity: Objectives
Develop +
Implement
Training + Applied
Practice Program
Build ORE Team +
Citywide
Infrastructure
Support
Reimagining
Community Safety
Project
Support
Community +
Economic Recovery
Work
Embed Equity
in Budget
Process
Goal: Enable the City organization to embed a racial equity practice that will examine and improve San José’s internal policies, programs, and decision-making so that, ultimately, we improve outcomes for communities of color.
Racial Equity: Objectives July-December 2021
Develop +
Implement
Training + Applied
Practice Program
Build ORE Team +
Citywide
Infrastructure
Support
Reimagining
Community Safety
Project
Support
Community +
Economic Recovery
Work
Embed Equity
in Budget
Process
Objectives
Develop + Implement
Training + Applied
Practice Program
(Normalize)
Build ORE Team +
Citywide Infrastructure
(Organize)
Embed Equity in
Budget Process
Racial Equity: July-December 2021 Accomplishments
▪ Executed 2
Senior & Exec
Staff Racial Equity
workshops
▪ Completed a
Request for
Proposal for
Citywide Equity
and Inclusion
trainers
▪ Hired and onboarded
1 Assistant to the City
Manager and 1
Senior Executive
Analyst
▪ Created an internal
Equity Council
▪ Coordinated with City
GARE group and
GARE workgroups
▪ Partnered with Budget Office and completed 2 Results
Based Accountability Training for 10 CMO Office &
Departments
▪ Completed 25+ ad-hoc consultations with City
Departments
▪ Revised and launched a Budgeting for Equity tool for FY 2022-23 in partnership with the Budget Office
▪ Promoted racial equity principles and implementation in response to COVID-19 recovery efforts
▪ Developed a Community Engagement framework
▪ Advisory and Leadership Team engagement in Trauma
Informed Resilience Oriented
Support Reimagining
Community Safety
Project
Support Community
+ Economic
Recovery Work
(Operationalize------------------------------------------------------------------------------) Completed In progress Not started
What is in progress in Racial Equity?
Normalize
Organize
Operationalize
● Develop training videos for City staff on racial equity terms/concepts ● Coordinate and launch Citywide Racial Equity training opportunities ● Host 2 additional racial equity workshops for Senior and Executive Staff ● Partner with Human Resources and complete a training & organizational development procurement for July 2022-June 2025
● 100% of Departments in complete a Racial Equity Action Plan • 50% of Departments establish Racial Equity Action Teams ● Consultations on Budgeting for Equity worksheets (20 hours) ● TA on Department specific racial equity action plans (60 hours) ● TA on Department specific racial equity action teams (20 hours) ● Complete 5 Results Based Accountability “Turn the Curve” plans with City Depts ● 100% Departments submit a Budgeting for Equity worksheet Immigrant Affairs: Objectives
Leadership &
Communications
Access &
Engagement
Safe CommunitiesEducation and
Economic
Opportunity
Goal: To facilitate and accelerate immigrant inclusion in civic, economic, linguistic, and social aspects of life in San José.
Immigrant Affairs: Objectives July-December 2021
Leadership and
Communications
Access and
Engagement
Safe CommunitiesEducation and
Economic
Opportunity
Objectives
Leadership and Communications Access and
Engagement
Safe CommunitiesEducation and
Economic
Opportunity
▪ Expanded local
Refugee Quarterly Consultation
Meetings to incorporate City
departments and stakeholders
▪ Drafted and introduced
Federal Immigration Reform
Council Resolution
▪ Established bi-weekly Immigration
Briefings
▪ Monitored, analyzed, and
supported 25 federal bills and 5
major administrative/regulatory
policy changes, including the
Build Back Better bill, TPS, and
Afghan resettlement
▪ Launched educational campaign
for the Central American Minor
(CAM) Program
▪ Established monthly Facebook
Live series to amplify priority
immigration issues and
service providers
▪ Developed educational
campaign on
Documented Dreamers
▪ Supported the development of
a needs assessment of City
community engagement staff
on outreach to
immigrant communities and
language access needs
▪ Partnered w/ USCIS to
develop additional workshops
for CSJ employees
and families
▪ Conducted preliminary
assessment of adult schools,
labor unions, partners to
evaluate programs being
offered to create framework
for more efficient referral
network
▪ Collaborated with MOTI to
support a pilot project to
assist with resume
preparation and job
mentoring for Afghan
refugees
▪ Developed initial
collaboration with OED
to develop long term
effort and recovery work with
immigrant communities
▪ Began implementation of 6 of
15 strategies to address anti-
Asian hate crimes
▪ Led City participation in United
Against Hate Week and
supported the introduction of
Council proclamation
▪ Hosted a UAHW panel
discussion to discuss lived
experiences and ways
to address hate crimes on a
local level
▪ Established partnership with
PD to provide trainings during
refugee cultural orientations
Immigrant Affairs: July- December 2021 Accomplishments
Completed In progress Not started
What is in progress in Immigrant Affairs?
Leadership and
Communications
Access and
Engagement
Education and
Economic
Opportunity
Safe Communities
• Collaborate with resettlement agencies on implementation of the community sponsorship program
• Draft initial plans for participation in California Immigrant Day 2022 and for City Hall Immigrant Advocacy Day
• Monitoring ongoing federal legislation and introduced bills in the new state legislative session • Supporting creation of framework for tracking metrics for city wide usage of language services • Drafting of initial plans for supporting 2022 naturalization workshops • Draft LOI for Open Society Foundation funding opportunity to support Afghan resettlement • Promote Immigrant Rising SEED Grant entrepreneurship program • Develop preliminary plan to partner with banks/credit unions to launch financial literacy training • Promote immigrant entrepreneurship through the “Eat Around the World” initiative in San Jose • Launch educational campaign to expand awareness of support services to foreign victims of human trafficking
• Review emergency preparedness plans with OEM to ensure linguistic and cultural competency
• Launch expansion of Red Cross preparedness training to immigrant communities and support the expansion of Red Cross Latino Engagement Teams
• Collaborate with CADRE to begin development of local rapid language bank for use in emergency contexts
Recommendation:
Accept the status report of the Office of Racial Equity.
Questions & Answers