Reproductive Justice presents an added layer to how organizations have interaction and maintain themselves accountable to the communities they work with. Whereas program design, monitoring and evaluation go hand in hand, it may be troublesome to examine how this framework seems past packages and providers.
From program suggestions to creating management alternatives, it’s simpler to see how one can apply RJ to your programming, providers, and information pushed processes like analysis and analysis.
However not everybody in your group works in these departments.
If Reproductive Justice is an organizing framework that facilities the management, views and voices of individuals usually on the margins, how can this be utilized in each space of your group?
Let’s take a look at one instance: Medical health insurance protection.
Now, I’m not properly versed in medical insurance protection or something associated to human assets; nonetheless, medical insurance protection is an fascinating subject to discover inside Reproductive Justice.
Most employers search for insurance coverage that present enough prescription drug protection, in-network supplier choices, worker contributions, tax credit, not too excessive month-to-month premiums, and different perks.
However how typically do employers contemplate whether or not the protection they’re selecting truly advantages all staff?
I’m a part of an fairness group for a corporation whose board I sit on. The expertise has been an eye fixed opener for me. Being on a corporation’s board of administrators permits me to be extra concerned in nonprofit governance and in understanding day-to-day operations.
Being on the group’s fairness group, nonetheless, lets me work extra intently with workers (who make up half of the members on the group) and perceive how selections made on the board degree instantly affect workers.
Medical health insurance has been a key deal with the group. Workers shared how their present insurance coverage protection doesn’t replicate the place they at present are. Most of the workers are beneath age 35, and are at life phases the place they’re trying in the direction of the longer term (being pregnant and parenting, on this case). How can medical insurance cowl fertility and different being pregnant planning wants together with same-sex being pregnant and parenting, help for single dad and mom, and so forth.? On account of listening to this from workers, the board has turn into extra considerate in medical insurance protection not solely has a finances merchandise, however as as a choice that ought to develop because the wants of workers develop.
Medical health insurance and different subjects associated to wage advantages are only one instance of making use of RJ considering outdoors of programming, providers, and the information pushed processes.
Key takeaway
Whereas it’s simpler to see how Reproductive Justice seems inside packages, providers, and information pushed processes, the framework may also be utilized in different organizational areas. Understanding the wants of workers (from how helpful the medical insurance and wage advantages are to the accessibility and security of expertise) will assist your group turn into extra conscious of workers wants in methods you’ve been conscious of the communities you serve.
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