Program areas at ICS
Civic engagement - this component educates, activates, and mobilizes eastside residents on issues that impact their quality of life and increases their civic participation at the ballot box and beyond.
Housing justice- this area of work identifies quantitative and qualitative data and research methods to build a case for housing justice and community change. Specific policy and research areas include tenant protections, eviction laws, tenant / landlord rights, housing scarcity issues, affordable housing including statewide policies impacting inequities.
Families unidas - this component develops a powerful and influential base of parents and community members to promote educational justice in public education and builds the leadership of families to have positive collective impact.
United students - this component empowers and develops the leadership capacity of young people in area high schools through education, academic services, and youth organizing training.
Brothers, sons, selves - this area of work focuses on ending the criminalization of young boys and men of color by creating and influencing public policy.
Eastside leads - this area of work focuses on demanding new development policies that meet the community's needs, challenging displacement and prioritizing preserving the culture of eastside neighborhoods.
Policy and research - this area of work identifies quantitative and qualitative data and research methods to build a case for educational justice and community change. Specific policy and research areas include college access, drop-out prevention, community schools, school-based wellness centers, local control funding formula/local control accountability plan, including statewide policies impacting inequities.