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The California Department of Public Health has awarded The Arc of California a grant as part of the California Equitable Recovery Initiative (CERI), a program to advance an equitable pandemic recovery through policy, systems, and environmental changes.
The funded project, named the “Colaboración Comunitaria para Acción Colectiva,” will create an equitable and resilient future for Spanish speaking Californians with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, and do so by building political power through community organizing and cross-organizational collaboration. The effort will build upon and scale the actions of El Arc de California to launch a fully statewide movement that is native in language and culturally aware in outreach for the community.
This El Arc de California statewide coordinating project proposes to fill an important need in the Spanish speaking disability community by creating an organizing platform for all local and regional efforts to coordinate a movement across the state that achieves the goals as established at our first statewide summit:
- Eliminate disparities in health and social services by improving our systems of support and services so that it prioritizes quality, inclusion, and equity for ALL Californians with disabilities;
- Organize political power for the Latino disability community.
WE ARE HIRING for a Director of El Arc de California who will oversee this grant project and more. Click HERE to download job description.
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