October 2019 – FAB Meeting #18

Participants

• 16 FAB Members

• 5 UB backbone staff: Kassa Belay, David Harrington, Danielle Augustine, Dionne Grayman, and Amelia Thompson

Takeaways

• Brownsville’s early childhood systems could be improved for residents with culturally compatible curriculum and training, local hiring, and efforts to increase access and affordability to early childhood development programs and supports.

• FAB member professional development needs to include a healing process designed to remove internal barriers to growth resulting from living under systemic racism.

Meeting Notes

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