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Policy Agenda

We embrace diversity, inclusion, and equity at all levels in fulfilling our mission. Our policy agenda acknowledges the adverse effects of childhood experiences shaped by community environments such as poverty, discrimination, violence, and lack of opportunity.

The Building Community Resilience Pair of ACEs model guides our efforts to improve health and life outcomes through education, programs, advocacy, and coalition-building. Using an advocacy framework, we integrate public awareness campaigns, participation in forums, community organizing, coalition-building, and community mobilization to create lasting change.

Current advocacy priorities include:

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (negative childhood experiences, including physical, sexual, emotional abuse, violence, neglect; substance use; violence, loss that harms healthy development of children and families; mental illness)
• Adverse Community Environments / Social Determinants of Health (poverty and discrimination, food, education access and quality, access to healthcare, housing stability, neighborhood and built environment, economic stability)
• Resilient Communities / Community Health and Safety (emergency and disaster preparedness, public health emergencies, climate-change action)

Marin Promise Partnership

Racial equity for students in Marin will be achieved when race and ethnicity no longer predict the outcome of a young person’s educational future.

As a Marin Promise Partner, North Marin Community Services commits to identify and dismantle racial inequities, and to provide equity-based supports, so that our most vulnerable children can achieve their full potential.