Resources

The following are resource links and listings provided by Collaborative Members.

RCASA

1) PSAs covering a variety of topics like online safety, include English and Spanish captions (we’re currently working on making Spanish-language versions of each one)
2) Virtual Support Groups – Using the RAINN Helproom, RCASA staff/interns facilitate open discussion on Tuesdays and led discussion on Thursdays with survivors of sexual violence (open to all genders, locations, ages). For confidentiality purposes, participants are assigned a name and the group is chat-based, with no voice or video component. 
3) Virtual Workshops covering Consent 101 and Online Safety. Parents, youth, advocates, and educators are all welcome. 

The Center for Leading Edge Addiction Research is offering a helpline for adults who are residents of the State of Virginia and would like to talk about their opioid use. Take the first step and give us a call at 1-877-674-6437 or email us at uvaclear@virginia.edu. Click HERE for the flyer!

Race, Relationships, and Resources

TED TALKS
PODCASTS Supporting Mental Health for People of Color (PoC) and Youth
  • AFFIRM
  • Fireflies Unite
  • Imani State of Mind
  • Melanin + Mental Health
  • Moving Upstream – specifically for youth
  • Therapy for Black Girls
RESOURCE LIST
VIDEOS
ARTICLES

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Injustice
https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234

Chronicles of Evidence-Based Mentoring
https://mailchi.mp/27379b756fab/want-to-double-your-effects-1015068?e=ecd46764c5

Conversation with Youth – How to Talk to Kids about Racism, Violence & Police Brutality
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/31/how-talk-kids-racism-racial-violence-police-brutality/5288065002/

Four tips for having healthy conversations with mentees about race
https://www.evidencebasedmentoring.org/four-tips-healthy-conversations-mentees-race/

How to Talk with Kids About Racism and Racial Violence
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/how-to-talk-with-kids-about-racism-and-racial-violence?j=7826649&sfmc_sub=185836438&l=2048712_HTML&u=147628547&mid=6409703&jb=396&utm_source=edu_nl_20200609&utm_medium=email

Racial Trauma and Young People – Why We Can’t Stay Silent
https://www.americaspromise.org/press-release/racial-trauma-and-young-people-why-we-cant-stay-silent

Supporting Kids of Color in the Wake of Racialized Violence
https://www.embracerace.org/resources/supporting-kids-of-color-in-the-wake-of-racialized-violenc-part-one

Teaching Tolerance offers a plethora of resources to educators to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued, and welcome participants. 

“Why Teaching BlackLives Matters, Part 1”

BOOKS

Adult Books

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehishi Coates
  • Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
  • How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
  • The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
  • White Fragility by Robin Di Angelo
  •  Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together? By Beverly Daniel Tatum

Young Adult Books

  • Dear Martin by Nic Stone
  • Fighting for Justice: Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins & Stan Yogi
  • March: Book One by John Lewis
  • Resist by Veronica Chambers
  • Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
  • The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
  • We Are Not Yet Equal by Tonya Bolden
  • We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
  • You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Children’s Books

  • A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
  • All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
  • AntiRacist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara
  • I Am Enough by Grace Byers
  • Island Born by Junot Diaz
  • Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
  • Skin Like Mine by Latashia M. Perry
  • The Last Stop by Matt de la Pena
  • The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
  • We’re Different, We’re the Same and We’re Wonderful by Bobbi Kates

DEI Terminology

  • Allyship – Lifelong process of building relationships based on trust, consistency, and accountability with marginalized individuals and/or groups of people. Being an ally means learning from and listen to marginalized groups, empowering them, advocating for them, and looking inward to recognize your own bias and privilege. This is an earned designation; not self-identified characteristic or label.
  • Anti-racist – Set of beliefs and actions that oppose racism and promote the inclusion and equality of Black and Brown people in society. Ibram X. Kendi Ph.D, scholar and author of “How to Be an Antiracist” has helped popularize the term.
  • BIPOC – Acronym that stands for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color is a more inclusive term than People of Color.
  • Cisgender – Term for people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth.
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – Term used by businesses to encompass the efforts by business leaders to make their spaces more diverse, fair, and inclusive.
  • Diversity initiatives aim to increase the number of people from marginalized backgrounds in places where they are underrepresented.
  • Equity promotes justice, impartiality and fairness within the procedures, processes, and distribution of resources by institutions or systems.
  • Inclusion is an organizational effort in which different groups or individuals having different backgrounds are culturally and socially accepted and welcomed, and equally treated. Inclusion is a sense of belonging. Inclusive cultures make people feel respected and valued for who they are as an individual group.
  • Emotional tax – Unseen mental work that people from marginalized backgrounds have to do every day to feel included, respected, and safe.
  • Heteronormativity – Belief or assumption that all people are heterosexual, or that heterosexuality is the “normal” state of being.
  • Intersectionality – Intertwining of social identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, social class, religion, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity, which can result in unique experiences, opportunities, and barriers.
  • Microaggression – Indirect expressions of racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, or another form of prejudice. May seem like innocuous comments from people who might be well-intentioned. However, they make another person feel different, violated, or unsafe.
  • Misgendering – When someone incorrectly identifies a person, such as a transgender person, by using the wrong label (such as Mr. or Ms.) or pronoun (she, he, or they). It often makes a person feel invalidated as a human being.
  • Neurodiversity – Concept that humans don’t come in a one-size-fits-all neurologically “normal” package. It recognizes that all variations of human neurological function need to be respected as just another way of being, and that neurological differences like autism and ADHD are the result of normal/natural variations in the human genome.
  • Nonbinary – Describes a person who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. Nonbinary people may identify as being both a man and a woman, somewhere in between, or as falling completely outside these categories.
  • Phobic (e.g., transphobic, homophobic) – Having a fear and hatred of, or discomfort with people who are attracted to members of the same sex.
  • Unconscious bias – Prejudicial belief that a person is unaware of. These are societal stereotypes about a certain group of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness.
  • White fragility – Coined and popularized by author Robin DiAngelo in her bestselling book of the same name, she defines this term as “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves, including the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation”.
  • White privilege – Vast set of advantages and benefits that people have solely because they are White or pass as White.