The leadership team of NYU Langone’s Together Growing Strong, which includes academic partners, healthcare providers, educators, and social service providers, developed an anti-racist belief statement that describes our values and is reviewed frequently to ensure that our work proceeds in accordance with our stated beliefs. Our statement reads as follows:

Together Growing Strong is committed to identifying and eliminating structural racism; reducing health, socioeconomic, and educational disparities; and working with communities towards equity, racial justice, and positive transformational change. Our work embraces and values families’ identities, histories, and cultures. We are committed to ongoing learning about equity and racial justice to enhance our insight into the continued work needed to make society fair and free for all families. We aspire to create a more just society by disrupting individual bias and advocating for anti-racist policies and practices and long-lasting system transformation.