Governor's Poverty Reduction Work Group
To learn more about the work group’s current efforts, visit their website at https://dismantlepovertyinwa.com/. Living in poverty can become a self-perpetuating cycle that affects generations. To address this challenge, the governor in 2017 created the Poverty Reduction Work Group. The group is tasked with developing a strategic plan to reduce poverty, improve communities and make needed progress related to housing, health integration, employment and education.
Interim Progress Report (October 2018)
Past Meetings
December 19, 2019
November 21, 2019
October 17, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes and attachments
- Presentation on Centering Race training
- Recommendations/work plan
September 19, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes and attachments
- Framework outline draft for report
- Affinity Caucus materials
- Recommendations/work plan
August 15, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes and attachments
- Summary of July Affinity Caucus discussion on report
- Summary of mental health presentation - PRWG Steering Committee
- Initial workshop session on recommendations
July 18, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes and attachments
- Facilitator presentation - Building racial equity muscle
- Communities of Concern Commission presentation
- Communities of Concern Commission PRWG briefing paper
- General Work Group materials
June 20, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Presentation - PRWG Steering Committee
- Summary of Benefits Cliff and Lack of Interagency Coordination - PRWG Steering Committee
- Facilitator presentation - Framing the report
- Recommendations/work plan
- Data and research
May 16, 2019
February 27, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Directive of the Governor (17-13)
- One Page Briefing on PRWG
- Data and Research
- DSHS Work to Date
March 28, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Root Causes Committee
- Data and Research
- Washington State Budget & Policy Center’s “Progress in Washington 2018 – Building an Inclusive Economy” report
- Poster mapping the percentage of People of Color within Seattle Area
- Poster showing changes in population density by race between 1990-2010
- Description of Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining roots in Seattle and Poster of Redlining Map
- U.S. Partnership on Mobility from Poverty Report asking: What would it take to dramatically increase mobility from poverty?
April 19, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting Minutes
- Presentation
- General Work Group Materials
- Root Causes Committee
May 17, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes and Attachments
- Presentation
- General Work Group Materials
June 21, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Meeting minutes attachment 1 - root causes exercise
- Meeting minutes attachment 2 - root causes diagram
July 19, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Meeting minutes attachment 1 - Dr. Paul bio
- Meeting minutes attachment 2 - Dr. Paul presentation
- Historical trauma
August 16, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Meeting minutes attachment - "Drivers of Homelessness" Department of Commerce presentation
- General work group materials
- Root causes committee
September 20, 2018
November 15, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Meeting minutes attachments
- General work group materials
December 20, 2018
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Attachments
January 17, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Attachments
- Data and research
February 21, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Draft monthly meeting topics list
- General work group materials
March 21, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Strategic plan recommendation process
- Attachments
- Stereotype and implicit bias training, Racial Equity Works
- Washington State Budget & Policy Center presentation
- TANF time limit analysis, DSHS presentation
- Teacher preparation challenges, Seattle Teacher Residency presentation
- Diversity & Equity Hiring and Professional Development
- Educational Attainment Goals, Washington Student Achievement Council presentation
April 18, 2019
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Attachments
Resources
See a collection of articles and reports related to the work of the PRWG.