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<br />• Build intergenerational alliances, coalitions, and campaigns
<br />(like the Caring Across Generations campaign) to move
<br />forward these efforts.
<br />• Support measures that ensure that employees have the
<br />opportunity to take time off from work to care for
<br />themselves or their families without the risk of losing their
<br />jobs, so that they can balance work and family obligations.
<br />Ensure diverse civic participation and leadership
<br />Given the region's rapid demographic shifts that are being
<br />driven by the increasing diversity of the youth population, it is
<br />important for regional leaders in every sector to proactively
<br />take steps to ensure opportunities for communities of color to
<br />participate in decision making and leadership. Strategies to
<br />build diverse leadership include the following:
<br />• Create a durable regional equity network or collaborative of
<br />leaders across race, age, issue areas, and geography to
<br />advance equitable growth strategies and policies.
<br />• Facilitate active engagement by all racial and ethnic
<br />communities in local and regional planning processes by
<br />implementing best practices for multicultural engagement
<br />(e.g., translation services, provision of child care during
<br />meetings, etc.).
<br />• Support leadership development programs (such as the
<br />Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute), including
<br />youth- focused programs, to help neighborhood,
<br />organizational, and civic leaders build their leadership and
<br />capacity to serve in government and on decision - making
<br />bodies.
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<br />Conclusion
<br />Across the region, leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit
<br />sectors are already taking steps to connect its more vulnerable
<br />communities to educational and economic opportunities. To
<br />secure a bright future, the Research Triangle region needs to
<br />implement a growth model that is driven by equity — just and
<br />fair inclusion into a society in which everyone can participate
<br />and prosper. Through concerted investments and proactive
<br />policies, the region can leverage its rising diversity as an
<br />economic asset, and prepare all of its workers to lead it into the
<br />next economy.
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