What problem is being addressed?

Racial inequality.

What is their innovative solution?

• Action
  • Three Goals for the city:
    • Acknowledge the damage that systemic racism continues to inflict on our communities and develop deliberate institutional approaches to achieve and sustain racial equity in Boston policies, practices, and culture.
    • Facilitate an open, ongoing dialogue for healing, learning, and action to address racism and strengthen social cohesion in communities.
    • Advance the ongoing development of community training for healing, well-being, and preparedness in the face of chronic stresses and traumatic events.
  • In addition to increasing discussion, they are launching a program called the Racism, Equity and Leadership Resilience Program (REAL) that will incorporate racial equity into city policies and process through training, data collection, monitoring and sharing.
• People: The Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Racial Equity is the team that is spearheading this program and guiding it through implementation.

How can this be applied to Meadville?

Income inequality between races is extremely significant in Meadville, and if similar approaches are implemented here, we may attract a more diverse range of people to our community. Specifically, the discussion based approaches. These require little to no money, and only a place to be held. The ease with which they can be implemented is ideal and could have the capacity to change racial inequality in Meadville. A systemic approach is also beneficial for Meadville because it will then infiltrate into many different aspects of the community.