The RJE Resource Guide provides practical ways to sharpen our racial analysis and deepen our understanding of racial justice in education. Racial Justice is the systematic fair treatment of people of all races that results in equitable opportunities and outcomes for everyone.
IEL partners with communities, working with local entities to fill service needs and support them in the long-term on their transformational leadership journey. This guide serves to support Community School practitioners to better understand and create opportunities for youth leadership in their schools and communities.
Practical Guide to Advance Community School Strategies for Youth Voice and Leadership Read More »
Praxis integrates theory and practice for healing-centered, transformative solutions, collaborating with partners across the ecosystems of government, schools, academia, community organizations, and philanthropy. Their approach fosters connection, compassion, and continuous improvement. Prxis’ team consists of educators, therapists, artists, coaches, counselors, activists, evaluators, researchers, and not -for-rofit leaders. The provide coaching to schools, facilitate Communities of Practice, and offer, CoPs, workshops around healing-centered engagement.
This guide offers actionable principles that organizations and child-serving systems can implement to move toward the fundamental transformation of becoming anti-racist and trauma-informed. This list of principles is a companion document to the Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma- Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization resource, which includes further explanation and strategies for how organizations can put these principles into action.
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The purpose of this guide is to help system leaders facilitate participatory systems change for equity. It describes elements of participatory systems change that institutions and organizations can apply depending on local context and locally defined goals. Participatory systems change invites community members2 and system leaders3 to collectively identify, design, decide, implement, and assess priorities, actions, and investments that work toward eliminating systemic oppression and generating system conditions that promote equity, opportunity, and well-being.
Article presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race-associated differences in health outcomes, as well as for designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences, and provides allegories to help illustrate the impacts of the different levels of racism.
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Co-authored with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the Trans Youth Handbook is a legal resource guide that covers the rights of trans youth across such a wide spectrum of situations, including identity documents, school, health care, non-affirming care environments, and work.
NIJC houses lots of information and legal resources for immigrants, refugees and asylees. Schools can host “Know Your Rights” events, which provide guidance for new arrivals navigating the immigration system.
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It’s never too early or too late to talk with children about the dangers of substance use. In this episode, Maria Rahmandar, MD, an attending physician in the Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Lurie Children’s and the Medical Director of the Substance Use and Prevention Program, discusses how parents can help prevent drug and alcohol use in their children and offers strategies for helping kids who have already developed a substance use disorder.
Kids’ Wellness Matters Podcast Ep. 5: How to Handle Teenage Substance Use Read More »
Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights advocate and professor at UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, talks about intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities—and particularly minority identities—relate to systems and structures of discrimination. This video provides a clear and concise way to explain what intersectionality is and why it is important for schools to understand it.
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