The staff and Board of Directors of Arm In Arm continues to educate themselves on the experiences and history of racial discrimination in our nation’s history. We offer education and racial sensitivity training for board members and for staff. As a community we have open discussions on race, inequality and injustice among staff and board members and we will continue to prioritize this in a regular way.

We are committed to increasing diversity in the composition of our Board of Directors to reflect the population we serve. We have added a former client, as well as two members of Latin American descent.

We formerly had a committee dedicated to helping us fulfill our commitment to educate our staff, clients, and stakeholders on issues regarding racial injustice and discrimination with a specific focus on how the experience of our clients give rise to food, housing, and employment insecurity. Our Social Justice Committee did some incredible work which you can see Here, and we now commit to continuing to educate ourselves, engage in open conversations, and honor our heritages and histories.

Though we are not an advocacy organization and are committed to serving all humans with equal dignity and respect, we will nevertheless encourage members of our community to act, in accordance with their individual values, to seek out ways to be part of positive social reform that would help address the root cause of food, housing, and employment insecurity. We understand that these reforms require the best efforts of a diversity of experts, but we support the efforts of our elected officials of any political party to make reforms a top priority, for the betterment of Black Americans, of those who have been marginalized and of all people.

Arm In Arm leadership will continue to seek concrete ways that we might be a bridge between the neighbors we serve and our local government and law enforcement officials to end discrimination and to make our communities places where people, especially those most historically marginalized, might thrive. Arm In Arm recognizes, and is grateful to, law enforcement personnel who endeavor to serve our communities without bias so that the members of our community might live more safely. As a part of this community, we support any reforms that would better realize an end to the tragic miscarriages of justice and institutional violence.