{"id":831,"date":"2016-01-25T03:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T03:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/?page_id=831"},"modified":"2018-03-30T06:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:15:01","slug":"strategies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cadre-la.org\/newhome\/whatwedo\/strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1729&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Base Building<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Community-based engagement and recruitment \u2013 door-to-door and community (churches, shopping centers) canvassing in targeted neighborhoods to engage and recruit parents in independent setting and manner that reaches parents who do not frequent school campuses<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Community-based human rights documentation \u2013 organizers and trained parents going door-to-door to survey and conduct in-depth interviews regarding experiences with parent participation and school discipline<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">House meetings \u2013 targeted meetings after relationships are built with parents who live near each other and share CADRE\u2019s vision for more in-depth discussion and sharing of stories<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Coalition Building<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Effective movement-driven coalitions &#8212; bringing organizational allies together, or acting as a committed ally around long-term solidarity, political vision and purpose, and shared analysis; providing co-founding \u00a0strategic thought leadership and facilitation so that these coalitions are built with values and principles that elevate the voices, leadership, and power of those most impacted by the issues our movement is addressing at any given moment in time. <font size=\"4\"><br \/>\nThese include:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dignityinschools.org\/\">Dignity in Schools Campaign &#8211; National<\/a> (co-founder)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DignityinSchoolsCalifornia\/\">Dignity in Schools Campaign &#8211; California Chapter<\/a> (co-founder)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dignity in Schools Campaign &#8211; Los Angeles Chapter (co-founder)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Leadership Development<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Empowerment Academy &#8212;\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">year-round monthly self-empowerment trainings for new members and core leaders to hone their personal practices of goal-setting, leadership, relationship-building with their children, and educational advocacy, aligned with the academic calendar<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Membership development meetings \u2013 holding Parent Action Meetings every 4-6 weeks to provide information, generate parent feedback, activate parents in events, and build relationships with one another; providing members with critical services as needed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Core leadership groups \u2013 implementing parents as organizational and campaign-specific decision-makers through regular meetings that entail political education, strategic planning, and consensus-building<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">New knowledge\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through participatory action research<\/span> \u2013 transcribing community-based documentation <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and community based data analysis\u00a0<\/span>into call to action reports\/policy demands with parent voices<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parent-centered<\/span> organization \u2013 engaging members and core leaders in the development of organizational values and principles in order to build a parent-led, union-like entity that can alter the balance of power between South LA schools and parents long-term<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Policy Change<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parent-led<\/span> policy solutions \u2013 drawing analysis of problem and ideal solutions from parents, engaging feedback on solutions, and identifying policies versus practices, identifying responsible parties, and developing demands (action committees, leadership groups)<\/li>\n<li>Engagement of public officials \u2013 engaging school, District, or State-level officials as needed in order to share community-based research, policy solutions, and demands<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring policies and practices \u2013 training core leaders and new members to monitor, share results, and assess accountability gaps<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Campaigns &amp; Movement Building<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n \t<font size=\"4\"><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Right to Education Campaign &#8212; long-term, systemic campaign with multiple phases that chip away at structural racism in public education, namely through disruption of the school-to-prison pipeline and student pushout through harsh discipline and criminalizing school climates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parent Monitoring Team &#8212; campaign leadership team on which parents make decisions, conduct monitoring, learn and carry out strategies for holding systems accountable, do participatory action research, and engage decision-makers; involves core leaders as well as member leaders<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased political will &#8212; building effective movement-driven coalitions (see below); through the framing and messaging in our publications, electronic and \u00a0social media communications, annual fundraiser, and convenings, changing and developing new bottom-up, community-led narratives about parent participation in schools; staff and parent leaders serving on committees\/task forces with systems leaders open to negotiating bottom-up community-led change; and special projects that help us redefine and redesign power relations between Black and Brown parents and schools, all with the express purpose of: <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">disrupting, interrupting, and humanizing the broader public\u2019s perceptions of Black and Brown parents, racial disparities in public education, systemic anti-Black racism, \u201csafe schools\u201d, and school climate<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Community Resiliency<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deepening parents\u2019 understanding of mind and body wellness as a practice for building resilience in response to community violence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building awareness about the intersections between community violence, school climate, and other environmental stressors and their impact on parent and student engagement in schools<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Providing parents with a structured way of accessing peer support to help work through challenging personal and social conditions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1729&#8243; 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