Brief Fostering Racial and Ethnic Equity and Inclusion (REEI)
Marla McDaniel, Amelia Coffey, Marcus Gaddy, Adaeze Okoli, Charmaine Runes, Susan J. Popkin, Theresa Anderson
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation launched Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC) in 2012 to support three local partnerships seeking to help parents and children in high-poverty neighborhoods succeed together. Recognizing the roles that inequity and exclusion play in the communities’ economic and social conditions, Casey provided each FCCC initiative with trainings on racial and ethnic equity and inclusion (REEI) beginning in 2015. This brief describes three communities confronting these problems—Buffalo, Columbus, and San Antonio—and the lessons they are learning about what it might take to reach true REEI. We begin first with Casey’s focus on equity and inclusion and then explore the FCCC communities’ reflections on the REEI trainings they received and what both Casey and the communities have learned as they attempt to apply REEI in FCCC.

Research and Evidence Family and Financial Well-Being Housing and Communities Work, Education, and Labor Tax and Income Supports Research to Action Upward Mobility
Expertise Thriving Cities and Neighborhoods Social Safety Net K-12 Education Higher Education Workforce Development Apprenticeships Labor Markets Upward Mobility and Inequality Early Childhood
Tags Poverty Child care Employment and education Head Start and Early Head Start School-based partnerships and services Early childhood education Beyond high school: education and training Child care workers and early childhood teachers Child care and early education Children and youth