支持公平决策和权力建设的行动
Policy Recommendations
1. Establish a state task force to assess historic harm to New Jerseyans who are Black and propose remedial steps
- The task force should include a diverse group, including community leaders and affected residents. To promote meaningful engagement, the task force should have authority to make recommendations to the legislature, governor, and departmental agencies.
- Cities and the state should consider adopting resolutions supporting a federal reparations study commission.
2. Create and fund an interagency equity working group to provide leadership on cross-sector collaboration
- New Jersey should join other states that have adopted cross-agency collaborative efforts to promote equity.
- As the Governor’s office updates New Jersey’s 2020 State Health Improvement Plan, a cornerstone should be the state’s “Health in All Policies” agenda—a strategy that strengthens the link between health and policies such as education, housing, and transportation to support health and wellbeing.
- In alignment with recommendations from the American Public Health Association, the Governor’s office should establish and lead an inter-agency workgroup to develop, govern, and create collaborative opportunities to help all New Jerseyans achieve their best health. New Jersey officials should coordinate with state systems outside of health, human services, and child and family sectors to include the state Departments of Education, Transportation, Community Affairs, Labor and Workforce Development, and Corrections.
- The state should provide sustainable funding for operations and pilot projects and develop performance metrics and accountability mechanisms, including a community-driven, jurisdiction-wide racial equity and social justice action plan to monitor progress toward goals.
3. Assess the impact of significant new legislation and regulations on racial equity within New Jersey
- New Jersey should expand its existing racial impact statement process by, for example, broadening the requirement for racial impact assessments for legislative and regulatory proposals to cover such areas as housing and health policy development and implementation.
- New Jersey was one of the first states to implement a requirement for racial and ethnic impact statements for specific proposed criminal justice legislation. It is the only state to require state agencies to prepare racial and ethnic impact statements for proposed rule-making. As of 2022, there has only been one such statement in New Jersey.
- Legislators should consider looking back at past effects of existing legislation in certain areas on various populations.
- Staff developing racial impact assessments must have adequate resources, including time, staffing, and technical support; assessments should be transparent and available to all interested parties—including constituents—early in the legislative process.
- Municipal officials should examine the use of racial impact assessments such as those used by the cities of Seattle and New York, and Montgomery County, Maryland in land use and zoning decisions.
4. Acknowledge the presence and effects of structural racism and plan action
- To promote conversation, New Jersey could issue gubernatorial executive orders, legislative and local government resolutions, and declarations of racism as a threat to public health. A growing number of state and city leaders in the U.S. have done so by declaring racism a public health crisis.
We hold ourselves accountable to inspiring New Jerseyans to take an active role in shaping policies affecting their health and wellbeing. Together, we can achieve a reality in which policies and practices welcome and include diverse perspectives.
" data-isabstract="false" class="cmp-text">当每个人都能自由表达自己的意见,并对影响他们福祉的政策施加影响时,新泽西可以成为一个更健康、更公平的州。
受体制障碍和不平等最直接影响的人最能确定推动变革所需的解决方案和行动。由于几代人的系统性排斥和撤资,许多人无法参与其中。新泽西州各个部门(商业、政府、医疗保健和其他部门)的领导者可以通过制定社区知情、多样化和有针对性的实施策略,以及有效的执行和问责机制,最大限度地发挥公共投资的影响。研究表明,实现公平的结果需要的不仅仅是强劲的投资。它要求在建立和与社区分享权力的每一步都注重公平。当人们聚集在一起采取行动推动结构变革并使决策者承担责任时,社区权力就实现了。
一个更健康、更公平的新泽西州的政策议程提供政策建议,以支持新泽西州的公平决策和权力建设。
政策建议
1.成立一个州特别工作组,评估对新泽西州黑人的历史伤害,并提出补救措施
- 该工作组应包括一个多元化的群体,包括社区领导人和受影响的居民。为了促进有意义的参与,工作组应该有权向立法机关、州长和部门机构提出建议。
- 各城市和州应考虑通过决议,支持联邦赔偿研究委员会。
2.创建并资助一个跨部门公平工作组,为跨部门合作提供领导
- 新泽西应该加入其他州的行列,通过跨部门合作来促进公平。
- 随着州长办公室更新新泽西州的《2020年州健康改善计划》,该州的“健康融入所有政策”议程应该成为一个基石——这是一项加强健康与教育、住房和交通等政策之间联系的战略,以支持健康和福祉。
- 根据美国公共卫生协会的建议,州长办公室应建立并领导一个机构间工作组,以发展、管理和创造合作机会,帮助所有新泽西人实现最佳健康。新泽西州的官员应该与健康、人类服务、儿童和家庭部门以外的州系统进行协调,包括州教育部、交通部、社区事务部、劳工和劳动力发展部以及惩教部。
- 国家应该为运营和试点项目提供可持续的资金,并制定绩效指标和问责机制,包括社区驱动的、司法管辖范围内的种族平等和社会正义行动计划,以监督实现目标的进展。
3.评估新泽西州重大的新立法和法规对种族平等的影响
- 新泽西州应扩大其现有的种族影响说明程序,例如,扩大对立法和管制提案进行种族影响评估的要求,以涵盖住房和卫生政策的制定和执行等领域。
- 新泽西州是第一个在具体的刑事司法立法提案中实施种族和民族影响声明要求的州之一。它是唯一一个要求州政府机构为拟议的规则制定准备种族和民族影响声明的州。截至2022年,新泽西州只有一个这样的声明。
- 立法者应考虑回顾过去某些领域的现行立法对不同人群的影响。
- 开展种族影响评估的工作人员必须有足够的资源,包括时间、人员和技术支持;在立法过程的早期,评估应该是透明的,对所有利益相关方——包括选民——都是可用的。
- 市政官员应该审查种族影响评估的使用,例如西雅图和纽约以及马里兰州蒙哥马利县在土地使用和分区决策中使用的评估。
4.承认结构性种族主义的存在和影响,并计划采取行动
- 为了促进对话,新泽西州可以发布州长行政命令、立法和地方政府决议,并宣布种族主义是对公众健康的威胁。美国越来越多的州和城市领导人宣布种族主义是一场公共卫生危机。
我们有责任激励新泽西人在制定影响他们健康和福祉的政策方面发挥积极作用。我们共同努力,就能实现政策和做法欢迎并包容各种观点的现实。
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