Action Groups
H-CAN's core missions center around action groups. Our action groups, each focused on specific areas, create events and actions to spur progressive change. Want to join an action group? Join H-CAN or contact us for more information.
The ArtSquad (Arts Advocacy)
The H-CAN Arts Advocacy group champions art in all its forms. We collaborate with partners to expand community engagement with the arts, build connections and empathy through the arts, and amplify the diverse voices of local artists.
We believe in the intrinsic value of art as a vehicle for expression, storytelling, imagination, and truth-telling. Art is an essential part of the human experience with the power to transform individuals and communities and ignite radical social change. Through art, we can explore the painful aspects of our world, envision hopeful futures, and build creative, compassionate, just, and inclusive societies.
Climate Action
The Climate Action group advocates for climate change awareness and environmental protections on the local, state, and national levels.
Our focus includes pressing issues relating to quality of air and water, local resources for waste management, reducing our use of fossil fuels, climate/environmental education, and community engagement.
Disability and Accessibility
The Disability and Accessibility action group brings
attention to obstacles facing the disability and d/Deaf
communities and encourages changes that
support the rights of these community members.
We focus on ensuring that disability rights are respected and access to community events and services are readily available and communicated clearly.
Immigration and Refugees
The Immigration and Refugees action group supports our local refugee and immigrant communities based on their self-identified needs and concerns. We work in collaboration with our neighbors to advance the rights and dignity of immigrants and refugees through legislative advocacy, policy reform, and court observation. We also work to challenge anti-refugee and anti-immigrant policies and practices and seek to foster more welcoming, understanding, and compassionate connections between citizens and new arrivals in our schools, communities, and workplaces.
Indivisible/Civic Engagement
H-CAN’s Indivisible action group advocates for democracy and progressive policies. A chapter of the national organization, Indivisible, H-CAN Indivisible members educate ourselves on the issues that impact our community, state and country and advocate for local, state, and federal policies that are inclusive, equitable, just and compassionate.
Often in collaboration with other grassroots groups, we participate in and organize actions—including protests, rallies, get-out-the-vote events, voter registration, and letter-writing campaigns—with a goal of rebuilding our democracy, resisting anti-democratic agendas, and electing progressive leaders.
Interfaith
The Interfaith action group works to foster
conversations about religion between people of all
backgrounds, regardless of their own faith or lack
thereof.
We seek to encourage understanding by presenting educational events about various faith traditions and coming together to share social time and consider deeper questions relating to faith and activism.
LGBTQ+
The LGBTQ+ action group supports and advocates for the LGBTQ+ community in Havertown and the surrounding areas. Through collaboration with other groups, we strive to promote inclusivity. Additionally, we work to safeguard the rights of LGBTQ+ community members. Our focus includes community outreach and legislative advocacy in order to foster a welcoming and supportive environment for all members of our schools, workplaces, and overall community.
Racial Justice
The Racial Justice group educates, organizes, and mobilizes Haverford Township and surrounding communities to achieve racial justice and equity by working with community partners to dismantle White supremacy.
We value:
-Equity
-Collaboration
-Transparency
-Inclusivity
-Moments of growth
-Ongoing critical reflection
-Amplifying the goals/voices of communities of color
-Proactive, planned, thoughtful, purpose-driven action