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Please see below for Training and Workshops, Print Resources, Visual Art, and Other Opportunities for Learning.

Training and Workshops

Alameda County Office of Education, Hate-Motivated Behavior in Schools Program of the California Task Force on Hate Crime

  • This service is designed to provide the latest information and response strategies relating to hate incidents occurring on California's public school campuses. Their goal is to promote awareness and provide resources for responding to and preventing hate behavior.
  • www.alameda-coe.k12.ca.us/acoe/HATECRIMES/index.htm

Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

  • “A World of Difference” program. K-12 anti-bias curriculum for teachers, parents and students. Provides training on use of materials.
  • “Stop the Hate” provides training to establish school programs that address bias issues. For students and faculty at high schools and feeder schools.
  • “Partners Against Hate” ADL partnership program for schools.
  • Sacramento, CA Office, Marielle Tsukamoto, Project Director, 916-444-1018, Email: tsukm@adl.org
  • San Francisco Office, 415-981-8933

Challenge Day

  • Provides students, teachers, families and communities with tools to develop and sustain proactive solutions that address and prevent the causes of social oppression and its symptoms: teasing, bullying, drug and alcohol abuse, violence and suicide.
  • 925-957-0234, Email: office@challengeday.org
  • www.challengeday.org

Framework of Understanding Poverty

  • Workshops, books. Tools for educators to use for teaching children from poverty.
  • 1-800-424-9484, Sacramento Regional contact
    Pam Costa, Human Dignity Representative (San Juan Unified School District)
  • www.ahaprocess.com

National Conference for Community and Justice

  • Workshops and trainings geared toward youth, workplaces, and communities at large.
  • Lori Nelson, Los Angeles, CA Chapter, 213-250-8787, Email: lnelson@nccj.org
  • www.nccj.org

Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Project (SEED) on Inclusive Curriculum

Southern Poverty Law Center

  • “Teaching Tolerance” educational materials and programs.
  • 334-956-8200
  • www.splc.org

Print Resources

Alameda County Office of Education, Hate Motivated Behavior in Schools Program of the California Task Force on Hate Crime
  • This service is designed to provide the latest information and response strategies relating to hate incidents occurring on California's public school campuses. Their goal is to promote awareness and provide resources for responding to and preventing hate behavior.
  • www.alameda-coe.k12.ca.us/acoe/HATECRIMES/index.htm

California Department of Education

  • Information and resources provided on this site help you learn how diversity can become a resource for enrichment rather than a source of conflict and divisiveness.
  • www.cde.ca.gov/iasa/diversity.html

California Department of Education Press, California Department of Education, CDE Press, Sales Unit, 916-445-1260, www.cde.ca.gov/cdepress

  • “Hate-Motivated Behavior in Schools: Response Strategies for School Boards, Administrators, Law Enforcement, and Communities.” 1997. (Item No. 1357)
    • Guide to promote discussion, planning, immediate action, and effective long-term responses to hate-motivated incidents on campus. Schools and districts can use this guide to examine their existing programs and policies and to develop effective procedures for dealing with hate-motivated behavior and crime.
    • www.cde.ca.gov/spbranch/safety/
      resourceguides/hatemotivated.pdf
  • “Safe Schools: A Planning Guide for Action.” 1995 (Item No. 1191)
    • Examines safety considerations and shows schools how to develop a comprehensive school campus safety plan by forming partnerships with law enforcement and community agencies.
  • “School Safety-Addendum to Safe Schools: A Planning Guide for Action.” 1998. (Item No. 1402)
    • This addendum explains how schools can develop comprehensive school safety plans to comply with Senate Bill 187 and prevent violence on campus.
The State Bar of California
  • “Kids and the Law: An A-to-Z Guide for Parents”: Resource guide to help parents be better equipped to talk to their kids about the law and encourage them to work constructively with the law.
  • www.calbar.org/2pub/3kids/3kidsndx.htm

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights and National Association of Attorneys General

  • “Protecting Students from Harassment and Hate Crime: A Guide for Schools,” 1999: Provides school administrators and others with practical guidance for developing a comprehensive approach to protecting students from harassment and violence.
  • 800-421-3481, www.ed.gov/offices/OCR

Visual Art

California Exhibition Resources Alliance

  • “The Whole World is Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s”: Exhibit examines the history of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s through documentary photography. Focuses on California, where many of these movements were born.
  • “Gold Fever! Untold Stories of the Gold Rush”: Spotlights the stories of individual Californios, women, Native Americans, and adventurers and gold seekers who emigrated from all parts of the world during the Gold Rush era.
  • “Votes for Women: Unfinished Business”: Exhibit includes images of women suffragists and their opponents, handwritten letters, posters, pamphlets, campaign memorabilia and other movement artifacts that document the struggle for American women’s right to vote.
  • Lisa Eriksen, 510-336-7062, email: ceraexhibits@earthlink.net

Family Diversity Projects, Inc.

  • "Love Makes a Family": Traveling photo exhibit portraying lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents and their families.
  • "Of Many Colors": Traveling photo exhibit portraying multiracial families.
  • "In Our Family": Traveling photo exhibit portraying all types of families.
  • "Nothing to Hide": Traveling photo exhibit portraying mental illness in the family.
  • 413-256-0502, email: info@familydiv.org
  • www.familydiv.org

"Out in the Cold"

  • Traveling photo exhibit underwritten by the Matthew Shepard Foundation depicting gay and lesbian homeless youth. Target Audiences: Workplaces, schools, community.
  • Alex Gibson, 323-422-3240, email: Gibsonrising@aol.com

Other Opportunities for Learning

Museum of Tolerance / Simon Wiesenthal Center

Sojourn to the Past

  • A 10-day “living history” trip through the South to visit historically important civil rights sites and hear speakers who first witnessed and created the civil rights movement.
  • www.sojournproject.org