DEFINITIONS
The official authority to decide what is best for others.
Institutional Power
Programs and services designed to move clients through a progression of steps, supporting them to achieve positive outcomes.
Pathways
People with the power to make decisions and enact your change.
Primary Targets
Creating talking points for your coalition members.
Shifting the conditions that are holding the problem in place.
Systems Change
A movement building framework that centers the lives and leadership of disabled Black, Indigenous and people of color and/or queer, trans, Two Spirit, and gender nonconforming people.
Disability Justice
The context in whcih pathways are constructed; typically out of the control of the people who are working in the system.
Institutional Structures
People who vote for those in power.
Constituents
Gathering data to tell a compelling story.
Research
Institutional power is traditionally held by people who have the _______ and make the _________.
Resources and Rules
The experience of repeated, widespread, systemic injustice.
Oppression.
Ineffective and inequitable policies, practices and resource flow.
Structural Barriers.
The people who will take action to support your change.
Coalition
Giving a presentation to a group of potential coalition members.
Outreach & Education
Ineffective pathways are characterized by...
Limited capacity and poor connection
Prejudice that we are not consciously aware of that we hold against a specific social group.
Implicit Bias
Shifting mental models is how we achieve ___________ change.
Transformative
People with influence who encourage your change.
Champions
Urging a legislator to vote in support of a specific bill.
Lobbying
DAILY DOUBLE
Clients are ready to engage and lead systems change when they feel ___________ and ___________.
Empowered and Connected
The complex and cumulative ways that multiple marginalized identities, such as race, gender, and disability, compound discrimination or disadvantage.
Intersectionality
Influencing relationships and power dynamics is an example of ___________ change.
Relational
People who can influence those with power.
Secondary Targets
DAILY DOUBLE
Holding a rally outside city hall calling for more accessible bus routes.
Direct Action
Although implicit bias is __________ and ________, it still affects our judgments, decisions and behaviors toward that group.
Automatic and Intentional