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Advocacy Curriculum

The NCCRC is partnering with Results for America to deliver eviction RTC “sprints.” Sprints are like policy boot camps, where teams of representatives from local and state governments, community-based organizations, legal aid programs, and other groups join weekly training sessions with expert partners to learn how to enact and implement a specific policy, such as eviction RTC.

At the end of our second sprint in Spring 2023, we committed to curating some of the essential lessons into publicly available training that advocates could do on their own. Below we’ve curated videos from the sprints, key resources, and some activities. The eviction RTC guide goes into greater detail about each concept, and we link back to the relevant stage in each of the sections below.

  1. Eviction RTC Explained

Difficulty level: beginner

Goal: Become familiar with eviction RTC definitions and major components

Relevant Stages: 1, 2

Key resources:

Activities:

About the Sprints

In Fall 2022 and Spring 2023, we partnered with Results for America, PolicyLink, RedBridge Strategies, Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom, and Human Impact Partners to organize the programming for, produce, and run two eviction RTC "sprints.” The sprints were virtual training sessions held over several weeks where, alongside our incredible partners, we worked directly with teams made up of legal aid advocates, tenants, organizers, community organizations, government officials, and policymakers from over 20 jurisdictions on advancing the right to counsel for tenants facing eviction. In weekly sessions, we curated essential resources and produced presentations from experts in the field. We also opened space for team building and working through questions and issues arising in their RTC advocacy.

Our Sprint Partners

  • Results for America (partner and coordinator for AHJ and ARHJ) is helping decision-makers at all levels of government harness the power of evidence and data to solve our world's greatest challenges. Results for America Solutions accelerate the adoption of programs, policies, and practices that have demonstrated success in helping cities solve their most difficult challenges.

  • PolicyLink (partner for AHJ and ARHJ). PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by Lifting Up What Works®. PolicyLink seeks to deliver and scale results in the following arenas:

    1. Equitable Economy:  Promote economic inclusion and ownership to eliminate poverty, shrink inequality, and increase mobility. 

    2. Healthy Communities of Opportunity: Create and maintain opportunity-rich communities in all neighborhoods and all regions of the country through strong networks and social capital, equitable development, and infrastructure investments that enable low-income people and communities of color to thrive.

    3. Just Society: Build power and expand agency to ensure that all systems and institutions are just, free of racial bias, and lead to a vibrant democracy where all, especially the most vulnerable, can participate and prosper.

  • Red Bridge Strategies (partner for AHJ). Red Bridge Strategies is a political consulting firm specializing in leftist ballot measures, public persuasion campaigns, and democratic socialist candidates. They focus on upstart, grassroots campaigns that challenge the status quo by taking on big money with people power and disciplined strategy. They believe in the enrolling power of electoral politics as an effective way to demand a better future. Their mission is to lead leftist campaigns from vision to victory using proven strategies of persuasion, insurgent messaging and data-driven field programs.

  • Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom (partner for AHJ). Their vision is that working people of all races and backgrounds will have the power and influence to ensure that everyone who works can live a full life free of abuse, exploitation, and poverty. It is the mission of the Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom to create opportunities for workers to learn and exercise their rights, realize their collective power, and develop the leadership skills necessary to advocate for a racially and economically just society.

  • Human Impact Partners (partner for ARHJ). Founded in 2006, Human Impact Partners (HIP) is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform the field of public health to center equity and build collective power with social justice movements. We pursue our mission through a range of advocacy, organizing, research, and capacity building strategies. Based in the Bay Area, HIP staff are located all over the country. HIP’s Housing Justice program leverages policy-focused public health research and advocacy in partnership with housing justice organizers to build a world where we all have homes, communities, and neighborhoods that support our health, healing, and liberation. 

“…each City/jurisdiction is different—and will get to RTC in different ways—and that’s okay, and that RTC is not a panacea, but a(n important) piece of the puzzle.”

– Fall 2022 Sprint Participant