CLUE–Santa Barbara engages faith-based advocacy to address injustices within Santa Barbara County. Current focus areas include criminal justice, housing justice, environmental justice, and immigrant justice.
Building relationships and surfacing issues. We connect with those directly impacted by economic injustice to build trust and understanding. We meet with community leaders to gain insight about opportunities and challenges to address injustices through policy and funding decisions.
Learning and sharing concerns. We listen to leaders who decide policies and engage with those directly impacted to help us see clearly the tangible effects of economic and social injustice. We converse with CLUE-SB constituents to bring shared spiritual and faith-based values into finding humane solutions. In so doing, we identify systemic causes of injustice, frame advocacy goals, and identify priorities.
Discerning issues and building relationships with officials. We share our observations and research with decision makers and build relationships to support systemic change through newly informed policy and funding decisions.
Developing leaders in faith-based communities. We network with clergy and lay leaders in faith-based communities to amplify our collective voices calling for policy and spending shifts to implement humane, equitable solutions to reduce economic injustices.
Taking action. We identify key opportunities to affect official policy and funding decisions to improve injustices. We issue Action Alerts and motivate CLUE-SB constituents and faith-based communities to add their voices by showing up and/or submitting public comment to build support for systemic change through amended policies and funding decisions.
Evaluating and reflecting. We look at the results of our advocacy to see whether policy revisions have occurred to reduce injustices. We evaluate what has been achieved and what has not, then re-engage our communities toward developing next steps.
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