Racial Equity, National Models, Focus at Meeting

Post author:independentnws
Post published:March 27, 2015
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The Ferguson Commission held its eighth public full commission meeting on Wednesday, March 25 at the Sheet Metal Workers’ Hall on Chouteau Ave.

The meeting focused on racial equity and reconciliation. Racial equity is one of the five areas of focus identified through community feedback in early Commission meetings – the others being citizen-law enforcement relations, municipal courts and governance, economic inequity and opportunity and child well-being and educational equity.

As already begun in the other focus areas, the Commission will gather data, testimony, best-practice models and insight from national and local leaders to inform the Commission’s recommendations on the infrastructure needed to promote and sustain racial equity in the St. Louis region.

William Buster, Kellogg Foundation Director of Mississippi and New Orleans Programs, spoke at Wednesday’s meeting, offering an overview of how Kellogg’s America Healing model has been implemented elsewhere. Following the presentation, meeting attendees broke off into facilitated small groups to discuss local insights and feedback on the America Healing model. Report outs of group discussions and Commission business closed out the meeting.

9^th Ferguson Commission Meeting Set For April 13

The ninth Ferguson Commission meeting will also focus on racial equity and reconciliation and will be held on Monday, April 13, from 5 to 8 p.m. at a location to be determined. Working group meetings and all Commission meetings are listed on the Commission website.