{"id":48,"date":"2011-03-07T06:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T06:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2011-03-07T06:10:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T06:10:54","slug":"organizing-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/organizing\/organizing-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><div>\n<p><strong>Community organizing activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community-based engagement and recruitment &#8211; door-to-door and community (churches, shopping centers) canvassing in targeted neighborhoods to engage and recruit parents in independent setting and manner that reaches parents who do not frequent school campuses<\/li>\n<li>Community-based human rights documentation &#8211; organizers and trained parents going door-to-door to survey and conduct surveys and in-depth interviews regarding experiences with parent participation and school discipline<\/li>\n<li>House meetings &#8211; targeted meetings after relationships are built with parents who live near each other and share CADRE\u2019s vision for more in-depth discussion and sharing of stories<\/li>\n<li>Action committees &#8211; convening parent committees on an ad hoc basis related to specific actions to engage parents in planning and decision-making<\/li>\n<li>Membership meetings and building &#8211; holding Parent Action Meetings every 4-6 weeks to provide information, generate parent feedback, activate parents in events, and build relationships with one another; providing members with critical services as needed<\/li>\n<li>Core leadership groups &#8211; implementing parents as organizational and campaign-specific decision-makers through regular meetings that entail political education, strategic planning, and consensus-building<\/li>\n<li>Developing policy solutions &#8211; drawing analysis of problem and ideal solutions from parents, engaging feedback on solutions, and identifying policies versus practices, identifying responsible parties, and developing demands (action committees, leadership groups)<\/li>\n<li>Engagement of public officials &#8211; engaging school, District, or State-level officials as needed in order to share community-based research, policy solutions, and demands<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring policies and practices &#8211; training core leaders and new members to monitor, share results, and assess accountability gaps<\/li>\n<li>Building alliances &#8211; core leaders and staff entering into appropriate and strategic coalitions<\/li>\n<li>Developing new knowledge &#8211; transcribing community-based documentation into call to action reports\/policy demands with parent voices<\/li>\n<li>Building organization &#8211; engaging members and core leaders in the development of organizational values and principles in order to build a parent-led, union-like entity that can alter the balance of power between South LA schools and parents long-term<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community organizing activities: Community-based engagement and recruitment &#8211; door-to-door and community (churches, shopping centers) canvassing in targeted neighborhoods to engage and recruit parents in independent setting and manner that reaches&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/organizing\/organizing-activities\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/136"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cadre-la.org\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}