Racial Equity Resources – Connect

Follow Racial Justice activists, educators, and organizations on social media. Here are some ideas to get you started. A good way to widen your circle of who you follow is to check out who these organizations follow, quote, repost, and retweet. 

Training and Toolkits:

  • HEALING JUSTICE TOOLKIT The Toolkit for Black Lives Matter Healing Justice & Direct Action was created to collate, condense, and share the lessons we have learned in ensuring that our direct actions are centered on healing justice. This toolkit will develop in real time as we continue to uncover the implications for healing justice in our organizing. Click here to access this toolkit. 
  • #TALKABOUT TRAYVON: A TOOLKIT FOR WHITE PEOPLE Police continue to mistreat, terrorize, and even murder boys and girls of color, and then walk free. We need to #TalkAboutTrayvon and remind each other what we continue to lose when we uphold a system that won’t punish people who kill Black children and adults. We are not only losing wonderful people—we are losing our humanity. White communities are used to consciously and unconsciously maintaining the racist policies and practices that led to Trayvon’s death—and, as white people, we must speak out against those policies and practices. When we remain silent and, on the sidelines, we are complicit in maintaining these unjust systems. Our work is to get more white people to take action toward racial justice—and to change the hearts and minds of those white people who are not yet with us. When we #TalkAboutTrayvon, we tell grieving parents that we see them and acknowledge their pain. When we #TalkAboutTrayvon, we tell Black children that we are not afraid of them—we are only afraid they won’t get the bright future they deserve. Click here to access this toolkit.
  • INTERCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INVENTORY (IDI) The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is the premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence that is used by thousands of individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve international and domestic diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes. In contrast to many “personal characteristic” instruments, the IDI is a cross-culturally valid, reliable, and generalizable measure of intercultural competence along the validated intercultural development continuum (adapted, based on IDI research, from the DMIS theory developed by Milton Bennett). Further, the IDI has been demonstrated, through research, to have high predictive validity to both bottom-line cross-cultural outcomes in organizations and intercultural goal accomplishments in education. Click here to learn more and explore their services.
  • CHANGING THE LENS Changing the Lens is a two-part training that deconstructs unexamined assumptions and equip people to mitigate biases and address inequities by examining truth and awakening empathy to activate courageous citizenship. Through thought-provoking workshops and seminars participants examine the origins of bigotry and the history of racism. Prescribing the use of a toolkit designed for follow-up small groups and accountability relationships inspires a lifestyle of cross-cultural engagement and critical self-reflection. This becomes the framework to activate the journey of transformation in individuals and organizations willing to champion matters of racial equity and justice to create lasting change.
  • THE RACIAL EQUITY INSTITUTE The Racial Equity Institute (REI) is an alliance of trainers, organizers, and institutional leaders who have devoted themselves to the work of creating racially equitable organizations and systems. The process is designed to help leaders and organizations who want to proactively understand and address racism, both in their organization and in the community where the organization is working. The Racial Equity Institute, LLC process is just that: an 18-month to two-year process. Our experience is that the goals of understanding and addressing racism can rarely be achieved in a three-hour or one-day workshop. Racism is a fierce, ever-present, challenging force, one which has structured the thinking, behavior, and actions of individuals and institutions since the beginning of U.S. history. To understand racism and effectively begin dismantling it requires an equally fierce, consistent, and committed effort. Click here to explore their services.
  • #DOTHEWORK 30-DAY COURSE This course is designed to be an eye-opener and a call to action for those who seek to be allies to Black women. To #DoTheWork one must be intentional in breaking down the systems that continue to oppress and disenfranchise the Black community with Black women being the most effected. Going through these daily prompts you will be called to think critically and act tangibly in solidarity. Participating in this will be your first small step in working towards dissolving these systems, institutions, and ideologies that continue to negatively affect Black women and their communities yet benefit white people in this country. Be aware that finishing this 30 day course will not result in a certificate of ‘official allyship’. Until white supremacy is completely dismantled there will be continued work to do. This is just the start. Click here to access the course.
  • Sign up for action alerts on issues related to refugees and immigration from the PC(USA)’s Office of Public Witness.
  • The “We Choose Welcome Action Guide” invites Presbyterians to extend biblical hospitality and stand in solidarity with our refugee neighbors. It includes background, guidance, printable yard signs and other resources to help you and your congregation get started in welcoming refugees to our community.
  • Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Refugee Ministry is responsible for coordinating the PC(USA) humanitarian response to and advocacy on behalf of refugees, asylum seekers and other forced migrants. Download Refugee Ministry resources.
  • The Office of Immigration Issues provides general information about immigration law to all Presbyterian mid-councils, churches and entities. The office – established by action of the 216th General Assembly – provides legal advice and information to mid-councils and congregations regarding immigration issues.