NLC Partner Cities Activities
The Highlighted text above will take you to what cities have done as Inclusive Communities Partners.
Carslisle, PA has been the first city to enroll in the Commonwealth:
| Carlisle: Mayor Kirk R. Wilson | |
| Carlisle Mayor Kirk Wilson proposed joining the Partnership for Working Toward Inclusive Communities at the request of the local YWCA’s social committee, which has dedicated itself to bringing community leaders together to discuss various forms of discrimination. Since joining the Partnership, Carlisle citizens and government officials have engaged in a number of community-wide dialogues regarding diversity, discrimination, and inclusion. The city has formed an Inclusiveness Advisory Committee, and the Mayor has held meetings for community leaders interested in addressing issues of sexual orientation, race, religion, age, and disability bias in the city. Carlisle included a local college’s gay, lesbian and transgender student organization in its inclusiveness advisory panel, and is embarking on efforts to add sexual orientation and gender identity to its antidiscrimination ordinance. The sample non-discrimination ordinance includes a proposal to hire three full-time staffers — an investigator, attorney and administrator who would receive the complaints — who would work exclusively for a local human relations commission. |
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