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Alonna Berry

Alonna Berry prioritizes quality education for every child in Sussex County, drawing on her background as a teacher and founder of the Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence. She advocates for fully funded schools, fair teacher pay, and support from early learning through career readiness. She emphasizes workforce housing programs to help educators stay local, addressing disparities between rising home prices and teacher salaries. Through this she promotes education equity as a fundamental pillar of community strength.

Addressing public safety and environmental resilience, Berry supports neighborhood-specific flood-mitigation funds, sustainable development practices, and expanded fire and emergency services to keep pace with rapid growth. She champions protection of bays and aquifers through improved buffer compliance and farmland easements, underscoring the intersection of community well-being and environmental justice. In Berry’s platform, protection of people and natural spaces go hand in hand.

Berry advances civil rights protection, including enshrining marriage equality and reproductive rights in Delaware’s constitution, plus defending inclusive policies in housing, healthcare, education, and employment. Drawing on her experience as a birthing person, she underlines that reproductive healthcare is essential and must be safeguarded. She also supports immigrant community protections, ensuring no one lives in fear due to their identity.

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Legislative Accomplishments

  • This Resolution proclaims June 19, 2023 as Juneteenth National Independence Day in Delaware

  • This Act updates the definition of "sexual orientation" throughout the Delaware Code by adding asexuality and pansexuality. 

    • Asexuality refers to individuals with little to no sexual attraction to other individuals, although asexual individuals may desire emotionally intimate relationships with other individuals. 

    • Pansexuality refers to individuals who are attracted sexually or romantically, or both, to another individual regardless of that individual's sex or gender identity.

Human Rights

  • Establishes a statutory target of greenhouse gas emissions reductions over the medium and long term to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on the State.

    The Act establishes a process of regular updates to the Climate Action Plan to serve as the framework to achieve the targeted emissions reductions and develop resilience strategies for the State 

    Creates Climate Change Officers in certain Key Cabinet-Level Departments who will assist DNREC in the ongoing implementation of the Climate Action Plan 

    Requires State agencies to consider climate change in decision-making, rulemaking, and procurement

    Requires an Implementation Report every 2 years on the progress of the State towards meeting the statutory targets.

Environmental Protections

  • Requires all individual, blanket, and group health insurance policies to cover annual ovarian cancer screening tests for women at risk for ovarian cancer

    It further expands the scope of monitoring tests available to women subsequent to ovarian cancer treatment.

Healthcare

  • Requires the State to fund a Mental Health Professional and Coordinator position for each district and charter school by the 2024-2025 school year. 

    The Mental Health Professional and the Mental Health Coordinator must develop partnerships with community-based organizations, schools, families, and communities to assess the district’s mental health needs. 

  • This bill provides for excused absences for the mental or behavioral health of a student and requires that any student taking more than 2 such excused absences will be referred to a behavioral health specialist. 

    This bill provides a supplemental tool to identify students struggling with mental and behavioral health issues 

Education

  • Creates a right to representation for tenants in evictions and other landlord-tenant actions.

Tenant’s Rights

  • Authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.

Victim’s Resources