Personal/Organizational Development

Articles

• A call to action for white people: reflect and act
  • Masslive article explaining health inequities that are caused by structural racism and some steps that can be taken to mitigate them
• Centering Racial Justice and Grassroots Ownership in Collective Impact
  • Article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review about how a top-down coalition focused on reducing youth substance use in a predominantly white, rural area of Western Massachusetts has prioritized equity and community engagement.
• Going to your balcony
  • Text of a graduation speech focusing on cooperation and understanding
• How you can be an ally in the fight for racial justice
  • TED article outlining ways you can be an ally in the fight for racial justice
• One People, One House: We all need to ‘stretch’ to bring about lasting change
  • Masslive article outlining how we need to stretch in order to grow
• Teaching Tolerance: Let's Talk: Discussing Race, Racism and Other Difficult Topics with Students
  • Guide for educators on how to facilitate conversations about race
• The 10 R’s of Talking About Race: How to Have Meaningful Conversations
  • Net Impact's 10 R's to keep in mind when having meaningful conversations about race
• The Conversation: Tips on having a Conversation about Race
  • Guide on how to have difficult conversations about race.​​​​​

• Fruitvale Station
  • Movie based on the true story of Oscar Grant III, who was killed by police in 2009
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
  • 18 minute video of Peggy McIntosh at TEDx shares how her experience as a white woman in academia has informed her knowledge of racial discrimination and oppression

• Difficult Conversations 
  • Book by William Ury that aims to help individuals have meaningful, difficult conversations
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
  • Book by Layla F. Saad that will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining white privilege, allyship, anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, cultural appropriation, how you view and respond to race, and how to continue the work to create social change.
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies
  • In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

• 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge
  • 21 day guided challenge on practices that we should implement into our daily lives
• An Educators Guide to This Moment
  • Framework for educators to talk about race and racism in the classroom and the current moment we are living in
• Anti-Racism Project
  • New York based organization offering trainings and professional development
• Bad Robot's Guide to Dismantling White Supremacy at Work
  • Resource bank with tools, social media accounts and other exercises
• BLAC
  • Organization focusing on uplifting Black educators and administrators
• Center for Antiracist Research
  • Boston University's Center lead by Ibrim X. Kendi works to build a world where racial equity and social justice prevail through collaborative research and education across multiple disciplines
• Colorlines
  • Daily news site where race matters, published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media, and practice
• Color of Change
  • Progressive nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization working to strengthen the political voice of Black and African American communities
• The Concious Kid

  • Education, research and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity, and bias

• Equal Justice Initiative
  • Organization committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights
• Families Belong Together
  • ​​​​​​​Multi-organization advocacy campaign devoted to reuniting immigrant families that were separated at the US-Mexico border
• Healing Racism Institute of Pioneer Valley
  • Organization based in the Pioneer Valley doing anti-racist work
• Ladder of Inference
  • Framework that helps us understand where our thoughts and actions come from and how to interrupt moments of oppression
• Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • Coalition of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States
• National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
  • National organization doing anti-racist work
• Racial Equity Institute
  • Organization which holds workshops to assist leaders and organizations who want to proactively understand and address racism, both in their organization and in the community
• RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services​​​​​​​)
  • Organization based in Texas that aims to provide legal services for immigrants
• ReThinking Racism For Racial & Social Justice
  • Workshop examining the imposition of individual, institutional, and cultural ideology that leads to systemic racism and provides a basis for taking action
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
  • The nation's largest philanthropy foundation dedicated solely to funding initiatives for greater health and health equity 
• Rose, Bud, Thorn exercise
  • Framework for examining and reflecting on an incident, day, or institution for what is working and what is not
• Showing Up for Racial Justice
  • National network of groups and individuals organizing white communities for racial and economic justice
• Undoing Racism Organizing Collective
  • Organization that does trainings and maintains a resource bank​​​​​​​
• United We Dream
  • Immigrant youth-led community creating welcoming spaces for young people to support, engage, and empower them to make their voice heard and win
• White Dominant Culture and Something Different
  • Worksheet designed for workplaces to examine white supremacy culture in the workplace​​​​

• Board and Staff Matrix 
  • Under the Race and Health Equity Board Committee, the Public Health Institute of Western MA developed a matrix to monitor and ensure that our staff and board are reflective of the region and include populations that experience health inequities.
• Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization 
  • 1 page summary adopted from original concept by Bailey Jackson and Rita Hardiman. 

Putting Resources into Practice: A Race and Health Equity Blog

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