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<br />- integrate community and have elected officials step forward <br /> <br />- diversity Training at City Council – next step to educate City Council <br /> <br />- “Diversity Training” and “Cultural Competency” - too broad, too encompassing, too <br />inclusive <br /> <br />- <br /> yes but mechanism of discrimination is similar <br /> <br />- but race gets grouped with so much and lost in the discussion <br /> <br />Emerging “issues” on wall-chart from earlier discussion: <br /> <br />1.Limitations of the City – what are the legal boundaries <br /> <br />2.Truth and Reconciliation Council <br /> <br />3.Create opportunities for experiential learning <br /> <br />4.City staff, City Councilors go through discernment process (history of city and <br />organization) <br /> <br />5.Including diversity and cultural competency as part of job skills and include as <br />part of evaluation <br /> <br />6.Establish group to inventory and evaluate county/City/State for diversity <br />implementation <br /> <br />Next Steps <br /> <br />1.Each City department diversity program report to the community <br /> <br />2.More coming together of all groups in continuum – not only crisis driven <br /> <br />3.Elect more people from Communities of Color <br /> <br />4.Elected stand up for critical issues – push forward <br /> <br />5.Similar groups stand up for critical issues – push forward <br /> <br />6.Diversity training for City Councilors (including discernment and understanding <br />of institutional history) <br /> <br />a.Define diversity <br /> <br />b.Give focus to Communities of Color <br />Communities of Color 35 July 12, 2006 <br />