Addressing Anti-Black Racism Special Advisory Committee

The application period for the Special Advisory Committee has closed. The deadline to apply was Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. All applications will be reviewed, and selected applicants will be invited to an interview. The successful candidates will be notified by the end of October 2022.

The City is committed to developing an Addressing Anti-Black Racism Action Plan in collaboration with diverse Black communities living in Vaughan and the Black organizations that serve them. The mandate of the Special Advisory Committee is to:

• provide advice on the project.
• facilitate community connections.
• advise and guide the community engagement process.
• provide feedback on the reports in each phase of the project.
• provide feedback on the recommendations and action plan.

The Special Advisory Committee will have up to 10 diverse Black community members and policy leaders with lived experience and/or expertise. The committee will exist for the length of time it takes to complete the Addressing Anti-Black Racism Action Plan project, which will be approximately 15 months. The required time commitment will be five to 15 hours per month. An honorarium will be provided to all committee members to compensate for their time, effort and contribution to this project.

Addressing anti-Black racism is a key priority in the City’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy and multi-year action plan (PDF).

Anti-Black racism is perpetual, pervasive and systemic in Canada. It is entrenched into societal practices that reflect and reinforce oppression, marginalization, prejudice, discrimination and/or exclusion directed at people of African descent across all institutions and structures, and is rooted in their unique experiences of colonization in Canada.

The City recognizes that creating equity and inclusion requires an active, intentional, and continuous process that challenges and eliminates existing oppression, inequity and discrimination in policies, practices, processes and outcomes for underrepresented and marginalized groups at all intersections of their identities.

Direct and indirect experiences of hate, prejudice, oppression, discrimination and exclusion are on the rise toward the Black community. It is important, now more than ever, to address anti-Black racism as the first step of many to address colonialism and oppression towards all equity-deserving groups across Vaughan.

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