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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute agreements, and all necessary documents or subsequent amendments, including amending the award amount, with Kresge Foundation provided as a sub-award from the University of South Florida, College of Public Health, to accept and expend grant funding in the amount of $100,000 for the Public Health Regenerative Leadership Synergy initiative, for the period of October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024, with the option to extend the agreement for three additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager; and
Increase appropriations in the Health Fund Group in the Health and Human Services Department by $100,000, offset by grant revenue. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the City of Long Beach (City) released a Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative as a framework for recognizing, listening to, and convening with stakeholders to develop equitable policies and ideas. The four goals of this initiative include: 1) Ending systemic racism in Long Beach, in all local government and partner agencies, through internal transformation, 2) Designing and investing in community safety and violence prevention, 3) Redesign police approach to community safety, and 4) Improving health and wellness in the City by eliminating social and economic disparities in the communities most impacted by racism.
The Long Beach Filipino Community Collective (LBFCC) will focus on the Filipino community, which has been a presumably overlooked and underserved population. Filipinos make up 35 percent of the Long Beach’s Asian population, making them the largest Asian ethnic community in the city. Due in part to a lack of focused data collection and the common practice of grouping Asian subgroups into a single broad category, there has been limited investigation of the unique health inequities experienced by the Filipino community in Long Beach, which has resulted in ve...
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