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- Title
Central Coast Regional Equity Initiative: Co-Creating and Actionizing a New Community-Led Equity Framework.
- Authors
Knight, Kathleen; Love, Morgan; Williams, Jonnie; Vargas, Marcos
- Abstract
We present a community-led equity framework as a foundation for promoting equity on the Central Coast of California. We discuss the key elements of a participatory, community-led evaluation and planning approach for the Central Coast Regional Equity Initiative, which aims to advocate for social, health, environmental, and economic equity through region-wide cross-sector collaboration, community and research-informed action, and an indigenized and decolonized approach. Through a systematic mixed-methods evaluation and planning approach, including Community Consultations and Strategic Action Planning, we found that our community's lived experience contributes to a deeper understanding of inequities, and that engagement in cross-sector collaboration empowers our community to bridge data with action organizing. The findings demonstrate that engagement in community-led evaluation and planning contributes to a greater readiness for cross-sector collaborative action and a sense of community ownership of solutions to equity issues, and sets the stage for deeper-rooted, long-term success built on genuine reciprocity and trust. We present our community-led equity framework inviting others to adopt systematic community knowledge-base-building that values community wisdom, identifies power imbalance, promotes trust-building through healthy discomfort, and encourages reflective action.
- Subjects
CENTRAL Coast (N.S.W.); PREPAREDNESS; COLLECTIVE action; STOCK ownership; COASTS; TRUST; STRATEGIC planning
- Publication
Social Sciences (2076-0760), 2023, Vol 12, Issue 8, p441
- ISSN
2076-0760
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/socsci12080441