MEET OUR PARTNERS

  • Metro Central NAACP

  • City of Lorain

  • Community Foundation of LC

  • Elyria Community Partnership

  • Elyria South Baseball

  • Gathering Hope House

  • Individual- R. Shockley

  • LC Chamber of Commerce

  • LC Historical Society

  • LC Public Health

  • Leaders of Today

  • League of Women Voters Oberlin Area

  • MHARS Board of LC

  • Moms Demand Action

  • National Council of Negro Women, LC

  • Oberlin Business Partnership

  • Oberlin City Schools

  • Oberlin Friends Meeting

  • OhioMeansJobs LC

  • Save Our Children

  • United Way of Greater LC

  • Elyria Public Library

  • First Congregational Church Elyria

  • Kendal at Oberlin

  • First Church Oberlin

The Lorain County Racial Equity Agenda, a bi-product of the Racial Equity Center of Lorain County, was developed in 2022 to craft a set of imperatives that address systemic racism. The report will be an indication of the forward movement local leaders are making towards building a healthier, more robust, and better resourced community for people of color. Our long-term goal is to free people of color, especially Blacks and Hispanics from disparate treatment that result in the racial disparities on almost every indicator of well-being. To get there, we must dismantle the structures and institutional policies and practices that disadvantage and marginalize Black and Brown people, as well as interrupt the false narratives that exist about their communities. To that end, we invite organizations, businesses and individuals to become partners and allies in our work to dismantle systemic racism in Lorain County.

The cascade of Resolutions Declaring Racism is a Public Health Crisis and Statements of Support for Black and Brown lives that have poured forth from corporations, non-profit organizations an institutions since May 25, 2020 is a necessary but insufficient step toward progress.