Charting the Path to Equity
About us
Leading with Values
Our Guiding Principles
These nine Transformative Principles emerged from the “Beyond 2020” Sustainability Planning Process where adult residents, youth residents, and organizational representatives participated to reflect on the Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities 10-year initiative and identified the next steps guided by the principles.
The vision Beyond 2020 is working towards a new way of organizing and working with community. Through a set of guiding transformative principles, the hope is that Santa Ana will be more intentional about organizing experience: improve the quality of relationships, the depth of personal and social transformation, and the dynamics of power even among those who organize; which will be a gradual and long-term process.
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Having majority participation, leadership, and decision-making of and by individuals directly impacted by the issues being addressed. Respecting and supporting the autonomy and leadership of adults and youth.
Rest, self-care and community-care is critical to our work for social change. Transforming the world starts with transforming ourselves and centering our collective healing.
Building in space and resources to address the immediate needs of the community. This includes basic livelihood needs such as food, water, shelter, clothing, urgent mental or physical health needs, and rapid legal response for eviction, deportation, and similar crises.
Addressing the underlying issues of systemic oppression that affect us based on our different social identities, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, etc. We work to change our social systems to create real justice and equity.
The opportunity to plan for our growth and self-improvement by learning from each other and from others whose skills and experience can help us.
This means making sure that all members of our community have the skills they need to listen, communicate, build trust and work collaboratively with each other.
Establishing conflict as both inevitable and an opportunity for growth, exploring individual and organizational patterns around communication, conflict norms, and how harm is handled.
This means a framework of interconnected identities, structures and processes to strengthen our social movements as well as unite us in shared understanding, solidarity, purpose, and power.
The intentional use of art and cultural strategies to create social change, as well as providing space for art, creativity and culture throughout our work.
Who We Are
Meet Our Team
Get to know the dedicated individuals behind Community Hub de Santa Ana who drive our initiatives and embody our mission every day.
Idalia
Capacity Development Coordinator/Consultant
Alba
Manager of Operations
Megan
Project Coordinator
Joel
Operations Director
Ruben
Communications Director
Maricela
Board President
Isuri
Treasurer
Adriana
Secretary
Maria
General Member
