COVID-19 Racial Equity & Community Engagement

During the COVID-19 response, RECERT publishes a periodic check-in report with the following:

1. Updates on work tasks during the past week that relate to the team’s areas of focus.
2. Create a proposal of work for the week ahead that relates to the team’s areas of focus, with descriptions for how the team will work with the Incident Management Team and the rest of Ramsey County to make progress on each work task.
3. Highlight areas of significant community concern that will require attention.
4. Outline areas of progress that provide opportunities for future momentum.

Archive

Summaries are available in PDF format.

• Racial Equity and Community Engagement Team update September - October 2020
• Racial Equity and Community Engagement Team update five - work summary for the period of June 20-July 3, approved July 15
• Racial Equity and Community Engagement Team update four - approved for the period of June 14-27
• Racial Equity and Community Engagement Team update three - approved for the period of May 15-29
• Racial Equity and Community Engagement Team update two - approved for the period of April 27-May 4
• Racial Equity and Community Engagement Team update one - approved for the period of April 20-27

The COVID-19 Racial Equity and Community Engagement Response Team has hosted several virtual community meetings have been held to share an overview of COVID-19 services and answer community questions.

View video recordings and presentation slides from past town halls.

Equity mapping tool

• Ramsey County racial equity analysis map

Information

• COVID-19 health inequities impact on Minnesota's Black and Hispanic residents (Pioneer Press)
• COVID-19 affects on Black people (News One)
• Racial wealth gap and the COVID-19 pandemic (Center for American Progress)
• Xenophobia (NPR News)
• Minnesota, racial inequality and coronavirus (Star Tribune / MSN News)
• Coronavirus impact on Native Americans (Washington Post)
• The census and racial disparities (MinnPost)
• MN DEED addressing racial disparities amid COVID-19 (Mshale)
• White privilege and COVID-19 (Star Tribune)
• COVID-19 Real Talk series (Urban Leage Twin Cities)
• Ensuring racial equity during COVID homeless response (National Alliance to End Homelessness)
• Centering race equity during COVID response (Independent Sector)
• COVID-19's threat to Native American communities (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health)
• COVID-19: A conversation with U.S. Indigenous leaders (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
• Confronting xenophobia (Massachusetts General Hospital)
• United against hate: Discussion on anti-Asian racism (NBC News)

Resources

• League of Minnesota Cities race equity resource
• NAACP: Ten COVID-19 equity considerations (PDF)
• Government Alliance on Racial Equity (GARE): COVID-19 racial equity rapid response
• Racialequitytools.org: COVID-19 resources
• Center for Urban and Racial Equity: Equitable response to COVID-19