CCISCO EXPLORATORY

TRAINING

Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization

Welcome

Spiritual Reflection

CCISCO

RICHMOND

PINOLE

SAN PABLO

ORINDALAFAYETTE

CONCORD

PITTSBURG ANTIOCH

OAKLEY

BRENTWOOD

Contra Costa County

CCISCO Leadership Summit Structure

El CerritoLafayette/

OrindaPinole/

HerculesRichmond

Countywide Leadership Summit

Leadership Summit WestLeadership Summit East

AntiochBrentwoodConcordOakleyPittsburg

Structures channel power.

PICO National

Selected PICO collective victories

GROUND RULES & GUIDELINES

• Respect yourself and one another• Practice self-focus• Difference between impact and intent• Step up, step back• Try on: take risks• Maintain confidentiality

I. Why Organize?

I. Why Organize?

Love without power is sentimentality. Power without love is despotism.

Paul Tillich

Justice is what love sounds like when it is spoken in public.

Michael Eric Dyson

I. Why Organize?

HOPE WITHIN HISTORY: STAGES OF FAITH DEVELOPMENT

Contra Costa

Contra Costa

Children in Contra

Foreclosure Filings 2005-10

Map of Foreclosures in Richmond

Bank profits are up, while the economy is down

Polluters

Example:Foreclosure

Crisis

…to Reverse Redlining

A Geography of Credit…

From Redlining…

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: POWER FOR

COMMUNITY

A NEW STORY

OUR RESPONSE:

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIP

Preparation Action Reflection

Next Steps Next Session: Tuesday, March 22

at 7:00pm at Temple Baptist Review Robert Linthicum article on

“Systems As God Intends and Humanity Corrupts”

Have a one-to-one conversation with one member of your congregation about their vision/

Social InequitiesHealth Inequities

Segregation Income & Employment Education

Housing Transportation Air Quality Food Access & Liquor Stores

Physical Activity & Neighborhood Conditions Criminal Justice

Access to Healthcare Social Relationships & Community Capacity

Social Inequities

When the external becomes internal: How we internalize our environment

Allostatic Load

Inadequate Transportation

Long Commutes

Housing

Lack of social capital

High Demand-

Low Control Jobs

Lack of access to

stores, jobs, services

Crime

Stress

Stress

Stress

Stress

Stress

Stress

CRH

AFFECTS MULTIPLE ORGANS & SYSTEMS

STRESSOR

CORTISOL

Hypothalamus

Pituitary Gland

Adrenal Glands

ACTH

Stress pathway from brain to body

Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of CA, San Francisco

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Poverty Rate

Bay Area Poverty vs. Life Expectancy

Race and Racism Matters: Health Inequities by Race/Ethnicity

2.3 years4.9 years

7.8 years

Cost of Poverty in San Francisco Bay Area

• Every additional $12,500 in household income buys one year of life expectancy

• (Benefit appears to plateau at household incomes above $150,000)

• Similar gradients in Baltimore, NYC, Philadelphia, Hennepin County (Minneapolis-St. Paul), Colorado, California, AND Cuyahoga County ($6304/year of life)