RACE RELATIONS PROGRESS REPORT

In 2005, JCCI published its baseline Race Relations Progress Report under a charge to produce an annual report card to measure progress and hold the community accountable for eliminating race-based disparities. This is the fifth annual report card, and each year has seen the report strengthen its ability to measure progress.

2009 Race Relations Progress Report
2008 Race Relations Progress Report
2007 Race Relations Progress Report
2006 Race Relations Progress Report
2005 Race Relations Progress Report

2002 Beyond the Talk: Improving Race Relations

In May 1946, The Council of Social Agencies in Jacksonville, a forerunner of JCCI, issued a report on race relations and racial disparities. The report provides an opportunity to look back at some of the history of racial disparities, observe the progress made over the last 60+ years, and identify issues that remain unresolved.

1946 Jacksonville Looks At Its Negro Community

Across the United States, communities are grappling with issues of race relations and race-based disparities. Within this national context, the Jacksonville, Florida community seeks to improve race relations and address racial disparities. JCCI's 2002 study Beyond the Talk: Improving Race Relations concluded that reaching a vision of racial justice and inclusion required eliminating racial disparities and discrimination. To build support for that vision and to measure community progress in reaching that goal, the report called on JCCI to develop an annual "report card" for community accountability.

The first report was issued in 2005. Since then, annual Progress Reports have tracked a series of indicators in the areas of:

• Education
• Employment and Income
• Neighborhoods and Housing
• Health Access and Outcomes
• Justice and the Legal System
• Political Process and Civic Engagement

Surveys in 2004 and 2008, coinciding with the national Presidential elections, have been included in the report, along with the survey questions pertaining to perceptions of race relations and experiences of racism that have been asked annually since 1985 as part of JCCI's Quality of Life Progress Report.

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