Facilitate a set of strategic planning sessions with the BIPOC community including youth-serving community-based providers, community leaders, and others representing the Indigenous, Black, and immigrant communities statewide. These planning sessions will help to inform the strategic priorities detailed above and should be designed to produce actionable, written recommendations and a related action plan for policy, practice, and funding changes to present to the SAG and other agencies and/or committees, as applicable. Help the SAG to advance the action plan developed from these strategic planning sessions, which could include any of the following: o Collecting, aggregating, and sharing information about available community-based prevention services and supports, particularly those targeting the BIPOC community. o Directly engaging with BIPOC youth and families with lived experience in the juvenile justice system to obtain their feedback on community-based prevention goals, strategies, and opportunities for improvement. o Identifying and sharing funding and capacity-building opportunities with the BIPOC community in order to expand and strengthen prevention services. o Developing pilot programs to address barriers to service access and engagement. o Convening and engaging the BIPOC community in ongoing discussions around juvenile justice diversion and community-based prevention services, including supporting meetings with the SAG, law enforcement, ND Department of Health & Human Services, schools, and the ND Juvenile Court. o Providing training to public and private agencies on cultural competence and equity research and best practices. o Encouraging and supporting public and private agencies to adopt their own equity and cultural competence goals including through policy improvements, training, hiring, community outreach events, pilot programs, and initiatives. Support the SAG in developing and/or refining its three-year strategic plan, including key activities around reducing racial and ethnic disparities. Support the SAG in reviewing funding priorities, requests for funding proposals, and applications for funding to ensure they sufficiently reflect equity and cultural competence goals and priorities. Attend meetings of the SAG and other related entities as requested.
