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The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is uniting frontline communities to forge a scalable, socially and economically Just Transition away from unsustainable energy and false solutions to climate change. Fostering healthy, resilient communities will help to address the root causes of the climate crisis while enabling us to adapt to the impacts already underway. CJA’s members are rooted in Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian Pacific Islander, and working-class white communities. We apply the power of deep grassroots organizing, direct action, coalition building, civic engagement, policy advocacy, and a variety of communications tools to win local, regional, statewide, and national shifts. Visit ClimateJusticeAlliance.org to see a full list of CJA member groups. The OUR POWER COMMUNITIES: CJA launched the Our Power Communities to win real solutions to the climate crisis – solutions that will foster quality jobs that meet people’s needs while caring for natural resources and ecosystems. We are flexing Our Power at the local, regional, and state levels and building to affect national policy to bring about a Just Transition. Building Local Living Economies. The “local living economies” model for our communities centers on:• Zero Waste• Public Transportation• Clean Community Energy • Regional Food & Water Systems • Efficient, Affordable, Durable Housing• Ecosystem Restoration & Stewardship We will reduce pollution and heavy reliance on extreme energy by transforming each of these economic sectors and, in collaboration with key research allies, will quantify the potential for jobs creation. Our goal is to create living examples of how such community pathways can put people to work transforming their communities, while reducing both cost and pollution burden for present and future generations. ⇒ Building Community Resilience. The creation of climate jobs and strengthening of community resilience will build more equitable, local economic infrastructure through: • Grassroots Economies – The best way to ensure that local economies are built in the best interests of local communities is to create economic structures that workers and local communities collectively control, and make democratic decisions on how to run them. Cooperatives provide an important model to meet community needs and strengthen worker/community governance. • Rights to Land, Water, and Food Sovereignty – With a deepening climate crisis, community rights to land, water and food sovereignty are increasingly necessary to both adapt to climate impacts and mitigate the causes of climate change. Resource rights are an effective solution for a just transition.⇒ Building Movement. From local to national to global, people recognize that real change comes when large numbers of people unite around common aims. Communities are building a vibrant movement to change the political landscape by opposing harmful practices and policies, while demonstrating that real solutions to climate change will improve the health and well-being of our communities.

Under the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act passed in 2009, an entire community, rather than individual service providers, must demonstrate success in preventing and reducing homelessness. in 2011, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) named Houston as a priority community. This designation recognizes the great need to transform Houston’s existing homeless service system and the tremendous opportunity to make significant advances due to the commitment of homeless service agencies and the contributions of key community stakeholders.

The Code Green Campaign® is a first responder oriented mental health advocacy and education organization. Also known as Code Green, we serve all types of first responders. This includes firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, dispatchers, police, corrections, air medical, and search & rescue. Our name is a combination of the color for mental health awareness (green) and the “code alerts” used in emergency services. If someone is having a stroke or heart attack first responders will call a “code stroke” or “code STEMI”. The idea is that Code Green is calling a code alert on the mental health of first responders

We believe college success should be determined by individual effort, not by household income or background. Studies have shown that a four-year college degree is the surest path out of poverty: College graduates are 24% more likely to be employed and 3.5 times less likely to rely on public assistance.
Today, high-income students are more than twice as likely to graduate from college than their low-income peers.

Committee for Children has been working for 40 years to foster the safety & well-being of children via social-emotional learning. We’re the world’s largest provider of research-based education programs that promote social-emotional skills and prevent bullying & child sexual abuse. Learn more about who we are, what we do, and why we do it.