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1/30/24, 2:24 PM HSOA-24-48 <br />https://chapelhillnc.workflow.opengov.com/#/explore/records/63424/react-form-details/63424 6/17 <br />Describe how the agency incorporates racial equity into its goals. (150 word limit) <br />Describe how the intended beneficiaries of the proposed project(s) were involved in the planning and design <br />process. (150 word limit) <br />Percent (%) of Staff who attended racial equity <br />trainings. <br />100 <br />Percent (%) of Board Members who attended racial <br />equity trainings. <br />100 <br />Anti-racism is a keystone of Boomerang's work and mission. The student population <br />we serve is disconnected or at-risk for disconnection from school, and are adjudicated <br />or otherwise court involved. Pulling from the Chapel Hill/Carrboro and Orange County <br />school systems that demonstrate alarmingly disproportionate rates of out-of school <br />suspensions for youth of color compared to their white counterparts, our work <br />deliberately centers the experiences of these black and brown students served while <br />extending our efforts to impact the school environments these students navigate to <br />balance the scales of equity, decrease the achievement gap and inequity in access to <br />resources and opportunities in schools and the community at large. While our efforts <br />largely support basic and immediate needs of students disconnected or at-risk of <br />disconnection from school, we also work to continually assess our organization's role <br />in dismantling wider systems of oppression, and ground critical partnerships in this <br />same effort. <br />Student voice is integral in shaping Boomerang programs. For ATS, we collect student <br />feedback regarding their experience (i.e., sense of belonging, degree to which they felt <br />heard and respected) during their time at Boomerang during program exit, and use <br />this data to evaluate and adapt programming to best meet identified student <br />needs. Our Bounce Back program is a youth-led program in which youth share <br />feedback that guides curricula development and Social and Emotional skill-building <br />opportunities. Specifically, the service learning component of the Bounce Back <br />program model empowers students, as a collective, to choose the target service <br />population and project that they complete during the program year. <br /> <br />This year, we are working to create a logic model and program framework for a youth <br />council with participants from both the ATS program and Bounce Back program to <br />ensure student voice is included in a meaningful way at the program decision-making <br />level. We will recruit students in the spring and have slated training and orientation for <br />this group to begin in summer 2024. <br />Docusign Envelope ID: 1E46DA1E-0260-4212-A023-FEA4EE5C1439