The Latino/a Scorecard Report: A Policy Roadmap for Transforming Los Angeles Launch Event

On July 28 and 29, Alliance for a Better Community will launch The Latino/a Scorecard Report: A Policy Roadmap for Transforming Los Angeles, which highlights the opportunities and challenges facing Latino/as in Los Angeles County. The report establishes a grade/score in five issue areas: education, health, public safety, economic prosperity, and civic engagement. These grades are based on indicators and data collected by our university partners: USC Price Center for Social Innovation, LMU’s Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, and UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine.

Coupled with accompanying policy recommendations, the report intends to guide advocacy and campaigns for addressing the opportunity gaps that have acted as barriers to allowing Latino/as in Los Angeles from fully thriving.

This report comes after the 2003 Latino Scorecard: Grading the American Dream, created by ABC together with United Way of Greater Los Angeles. This initial report took an important step in examining data, perceptions, and implications surrounding the Latino/a community and put knowledge to work to surface one critical and fundamental idea: to take action.

Though improvements have been made over the last 18 years, these improvements have not been sufficient to enable all Latino/as to fully thrive. During this pandemic, we are seeing the devastating impacts further exacerbated on our families, our communities, and our economy. We must ensure the gains made over the last 20 years are not lost, but rather maximized so that we can move towards an inclusive recovery and ensure an equitable Los Angeles we all deserve.

Alliance for a Better Community seeks to build long-term power and strategic repositioning of the Latino/a community in Los Angeles County through The Latino/a Scorecard Report to draw attention to where investments must be made to respond to the Latino/a needs. The Latino/a Scorecard Report will be a valuable tool for research, policy, advocacy, communications and accountability. 

The time to highlight both our achievements and the need for substantial investment is now.

July 28, 9am to 12pm:
Welcome, Keynote Speaker, Process of Report
Panel: Health

July 29, 9am to 12:30 pm:
Panel A: Civic Engagement & Public Safety
Panel B: Education & Economic Prosperity