Racial Justice Content Topic Results
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MMIW Toolkit for Families and Communities
Publisher(s): The MMIW Toolkit for Understanding and Responding to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women for Families and Communities from the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center is designed to assist families, communities, and advocacy organizations in understanding and responding to a case of a missing or murdered Native woman.
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A Trauma-Informed Guide for Working with Youth Involved in Multiple Systems
Publisher(s):The purpose of this guide is to help those working with youth involved in multiple systems (YIMS) and their families to use a traumatic stress perspective and provide trauma-informed care.
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Stop Law Enforcement Violence Toolkit
Publisher(s):This toolkit is intended to help integrate gender analysis into conversations about state violence and the prison industrial complex, uncover the impacts of state violence on women of color and trans people of color, and challenge society’s primary reliance on law enforcement agents for protection from domestic, sexual, homophobic, and transphobic violence.
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Organizational Assessment Tools and Resources
Publisher(s): Assessing organizational culture and structure is a key step in dismantling harmful practices that perpetuate racism and building an organization based on racial equity. This page from Racial Equity Tools includes resources about the processes of engaging in organizational racial equity assessments, tools and examples of organizational assessments.
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Combat Hate Crime Toolkits
Publisher(s):Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA)
The Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association collaborated on these toolkits to combat hate crimes. The toolkits provide basic and critical information for victims, community based organization, and community leaders.
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Incorporating Racial Equity into Trauma-Informed Care
Publisher(s):This brief offers practical considerations to help health systems and provider practices incorporate a focus on racial equity to enhance trauma-informed care efforts.
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Improving Services and Outreach to the Latino Community
Publisher(s):The article suggests that programs evaluate their effectiveness in addressing specific Latino community needs, recognize and address barriers to serving Latino communities, and learn about diversity within Latino communities. The article also suggests eliminating stereotypes, developing organization wide language competency, and ensuring that all staff have a duty to serve all members of the community.
Available in both English and Spanish.
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Human Resources and Justice: Addressing Racism and Sexism in the Workplace
Publisher(s):In many organizations, the current predominant human resource approach is narrowly focused and leaves a missed opportunity for HR professionals to help dismantle the systemic racial barriers that exist in organizations. This document from RoadMap explores how organizations can reclaim the broader understanding and practice of human resources to center gender and racial equity in order to support the success and accountability of our organizations’ number one asset: the people.
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Blueprint for Police Accountability and Reform: A New Vision for Policing and the Justice System
Publisher(s): This blueprint from Fair and Just Prosecution provides concrete policy recommendations that criminal justice and government leaders should implement for systematic structural reform that addresses police misconduct and racial injustice in the justice system.
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Predatory Lending: The New Face of Economic Injustice
Publisher(s):The document describes the discriminatory practices of predatory lending and their impact on African Americans and Latinos in particular. Analysis is offered as to the effects of predatory lending on the already disproportionate wealth gap between African Americans and whites and Latinos and whites. Mortgage lending, auto lending, and payday lending are all concisely reviewed.
Advocates may find this document helpful as a primer and tool for prioritizing and acting on issues that affect affordable housing.
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Power and Control Tactics used against Immigrant Women
Publisher(s):This document describes some of the tactics used to abuse immigrant women. These include emotional abuse, economic abuse, sexual abuse, using coercion and threat, intimidation, isolation, and blaming women for inciting violence.
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Know Your Rights: A Guide to Your Rights When Interacting with Law Enforcement
Publisher(s):This guide contains information about the rights of immigrants and what to do when encountering immigration agents, the police or FBI in different places.