HCCI Mandate:


Hamilton's Centre for Civic Inclusion (HCCI) is a community-based civic resource centre, committed to working as a catalyst for anti-racist change across Hamilton. HCCI will initiate and support transformative processes that promote equity and create racism-free and inclusive environments in all areas of civic life.

Hamilton's Centre for Civic Inclusion (HCCI) will assist the City, major institutions, business, service providers, and others to initiate and sustain transformative processes to create racism-free and inclusive environments. It will develop and share training and education resources, and enable easier access to relevant research and information. Hamilton’s Centre for Civic Inclusion (HCCI) will also be a source of support and information to newcomer immigrant and refugee communities, diverse ethno-racial and ethno-cultural groups and Aboriginal communities. It will help build community leadership and enable productive dialogues and partnerships between marginalized and 'centralized' communities, organizations and institutions.


Public Education and Resource Sharing:


Promote initiatives that heighten the public's awareness and understanding of the impactsof racism and efective actions that can be taken to address the problem. Facilitate the development and dissemination of efective models, guidelines and "best practices" in anti-racism work, utilizing in particular, principles embedded in HCCI's Anti-Racism Strategic Framework.


Equity, Access and Participation:


Promote and facilitate the development of partnerships and multi-sector initiatives to create racism-free environments in all areas of civic life, including social, cultural, and economic arenas. Promote and facilitate full participation of Hamilton's racial, cultural and religious minorities in decision-making processes afecting the city and its institutions, in line with principles of inclusion and the civic importance of fostering leadership and maintaining the vitality of the democratic process. Promote and facilitate development of partnerships between key institutions and racialized communities in order to create inclusive, racism-free environments within four major sectors of civic life:

Evelyn Myrie Chair Hamilton Black History Committee

Howard Elliott Executive Editor the Hamilton Spectator