Equity Statement
Racial Equity Statement
As Texas state Recovery agency, the ARH Board is committed to racial equity both internally through our work environment, and externally through our programming.
We are committed to ensuring that every policy enacted reflects democratic principles of equity and justice.
We understand that enacting policy in a just and equitable manner considers critical issues of implicit bias and discrimination that require concerted and purposeful action.
We believe that bringing together Board members, staff, and other partners with differing backgrounds and life experiences will enhance our ability to increase opportunities for all ARH services to succeed.
Policies, programs, and activities will be administered to identify and avoid discrimination and barriers to access and to avoid disproportionately high and adverse effects on communities of color.
Accountability to our grantees is of central importance to us. We understand the significance of evaluating the impact of our policymaking on grantees over time and utilizing this evaluation in the development of new policy initiatives. We are committed to the just and equitable disbursement of resources.
We will obtain the following information when relevant and appropriate in order to utilize data to evaluate the impact of our equity goals: population served and/or affected by race, color, national origin, and income level, which will include diverse communities across the state such as communities of color, racially and ethnically diverse individuals, tribal communities, immigrant and refugee communities, and communities that have principal languages other than English.