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 

• Agenda 
• Meeting minutes 
• Meeting materials

November 21, 2019 

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes 

October 17, 2019 

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes and attachments 
• Presentation on Centering Race training 
• Recommendations/work plan
  • Strategic plan overview 

September 19, 2019 

• Agenda 
• Meeting minutes and attachments
• Framework outline draft for report
• Affinity Caucus materials 
• Recommendations/work plan
  • Criminal justice presentation - PRWG Steering Committee 
  • Summary criminal justice presentation - PRWG Steering Committee 
  • Workshop session on recommendations 

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
  • Memo from co-leads to PRWG on post submission of report 

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
  • Steering Committee recommendations
  • Summary of policy concepts PRWG Steering Committee and DSHS
• Data and research 
  • Steering Committee 2019 Report 

May 16, 2019

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Presentation - Facilitator
• Presentation - Goodwill

February 27, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Directive of the Governor (17-13)
• One Page Briefing on PRWG
• ​Data and Research
  • Posters reflecting poverty in Washington state relative to age, key demographics, cost of living, and wages
  • List of Root Causes and impacts commonly identified in various research projects
• DSHS Work to Date
  • Poverty Forums: Overview and Ideas Generated
  • Anne E. Casey Foundation Grants: Proposals
  • Anne E. Casey Foundation Grants: Community Listening Sessions Information
  • DSHS Poverty Matrix/Framework

March 28, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Root Causes Committee
  • Diagram of Root Causes of Poverty based on member input
  • Exercise led by 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
  • Timeline and Milestones
  • Alignment of PRWG and HB 1482
• Root Causes Committee
  • Summary of Root Causes and Mitigation exercise

May 17, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes and Attachments
• Presentation
• General Work Group Materials
  • Alignment Proposal of PRWG and HB 1482

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
  • Conceptualizing and Measuring Historical Trauma Among American Indian People
  • Historical Trauma Among Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
  • Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart on historical trauma and intergenerational grief
  • Intergenerational Trauma: Understanding Natives' Inherited Pain

August 16, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Meeting minutes attachment - "Drivers of Homelessness" Department of Commerce presentation
• General work group materials
  • Progress report draft outline
• Root causes committee
  • Diagram: System We Have vs. System We Want
  • Diagram: PRWG Desired Result from Strategies to Recommendations

September 20, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Meeting minutes attachment - Progress report survey feedback

November 15, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Meeting minutes attachments
  • PRWG and LEWPRO Task Force working relationship
  • Briefing: expand monthly planning beyond agency co-leads
  • Briefing: policy recommendation 
• General work group materials
  • Briefing: Integrate equity consultants and steering committee

December 20, 2018

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Attachments
  • Racial Equity Toolkit presentation
  • Racial Equity Toolkit worksheet

January 17, 2019

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Attachments
  • Implicit Bias presentation
  • City of Seattle Re-entry Workgroup final report
• Data and research
  • Report of Statewide Re-entry Council

February 21, 2019

• Agenda
• Meeting minutes
• Draft monthly meeting topics list
• General work group materials
  • Work plan
  • Washington State Legacy Council proposal for inclusion (draft)
  • Concept report: Elements of a 10-year strategic plan to reduce poverty and inequity (draft)

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
  • Welfare, Women, and Race

Resources

See a collection of articles and reports related to the work of the PRWG.