City of San Luis Obispo Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Funding Received for High-Impact Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program for the 2020-2021 Funding Year

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November 19, 2020

City of San Luis Obispo Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Funding Received for High-Impact Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program for the 2020-2021 Funding Year

San Luis Obispo, Calif.,⸺The Central Coast Coalition for Undocumented Student Success (CCC-USS) is pleased to announce that we have been awarded $10,200 in funding from the City of San Luis Obispo for programming that advances diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the City. 
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With this funding, CCC-USS will be convening an Undocu Community Summit in the fall of 2021. The Summit will bring together college dream centers, K-12 educators, organizations, and community members within the city of San Luis Obispo and neighboring communities including north and south county partners.  

The Undocu Community Summit will be a phased event beginning in Spring 2021 where the coalition will bring together key stakeholders for discussing and developing the full program for the summit. The one-day summit will take place in fall of 2021, either virtually or in-person at a sensitive location such as Cal Poly, Cuesta College, or another educational facility depending on COVID guidelines.

Goals of the summit: 

1. Raise awareness of and address issues facing the undocumented community in San Luis Obispo
2. Celebrate undocujoy and hear from the undocumented community directly
3. Bring together the undocumented community and allies in one place (virtual or physical) in order to collaborate, build community, and help all organizations and individuals working with the undocumented community to achieve goals that will have a lasting impact on community
4. Explore opportunities to integrate organizational data and community knowledge to form a more holistic understanding of the range of undocumented experiences in our community, as well as specific barriers that we can collectively address in future work together

The coalition building that the Undocu Community Summit will afford, provides us a moment to gather and form strategic partnerships to collectively identify solutions to best support and address the needs of the undocumented community. 

Look for updates on this work on our website: https://www.ccc-uss.org 
 
About CCC-USS
Founded in 2015, the Central Coast Coalition for Undocumented Student Success (CCC-USS) is a collective of advocates and educators that challenge anti-immigrant and oppressive ideologies, institutional practices, and everyday actions that threaten undocumented and historically marginalized communities. Through our work together, our vision is to create social change to ensure educational equity for all students and build capacity to support undocumented students in our region. CCC-USS was founded by staff and faculty from Allan Hancock College, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), and Cuesta College and includes K-12 representatives and other community partners in San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara counties.