Anti-Racism

Training and Resources

Welcome to your DRIEP hub for all things Anti-Racism

Racism is a word that elicits strong emotion, and often even stronger opinions. Taking the step to engage in anti-racism work may seem intimidating, or maybe you already feel confident in your knowledge of racial justice and in your allyship. Regardless of where you sit on that spectrum, this page has something for you!

This page formerly housed just landing page for our asynchronous anti-racism training, but now we've transformed it into a hub for all things anti-racism. On this page you'll find information about our training opportunities that are centered around the topic of racism, as well as easy to access learning tools and resources, and suggestions for other amazing organizations and educators that can help you further your learning. Some of these items are available now, and others are coming soon!

Thank you for your commitment to learning and for choosing DRIEP as your partner in allyship!

Are You Ready To Learn About Racism?

Check out our training opportunities

CEUs Available

Created and Facilitated by
Ashley Heidebrecht, LMSW

Are You Ready to Talk About Racism?

Racism. It is a word that elicits strong emotion, and often even stronger opinions. Taking the step to engage in anti-racism work may seem intimidating, or maybe you already feel confident in your knowledge of racial justice and in your allyship. Regardless of where you sit on that spectrum, this training is one that can have benefit for everyone.

Whether you are a social service or mental health professional pursuing a unique and impactful continuing education experience, a student, or anyone regardless of profession who is seeking to learn and grow in anti-racist allyship, this virtual training experience will challenge you, and expose you to knowledge and skills to gain better understanding of racial justice and allyship. This is a virtual training, with 3 modules (approximately 2 hours of content in each module). The training is asynchronous, designed for participants to be able to take breaks as they need to, and to work at their own pace.

CEUs Available

Created and Facilitated by Vic Doster, LMSW
and
Karissa Doster-Hoffman, LCSW, LCDC

Are you Ready to Commit?

Black History is deeper than just a month’s worth of celebration, increased social media visibility and teachings in school. It is more than Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and the other Black warriors that have been popularly a part of the streamlined approach to disseminating information about Black history.

We want to challenge you to break the cycle of isolating Black excellence and history into a month’s worth of time, once a year. Black history is more. We challenge you to break the cycle of white America’s continuous attempts to make up for centuries of Black oppression cosigned with heinous behaviors like racism and discrimination.

What can you expect from this course?

If you want to sign up and be a “committed learner” of the online course Black and Amplified, you will gain access to six (6) unit course, with each unit spanning two months. Each unit will contain one (1) hour of video content featuring the course facilitators, supplemental material, and and weekly learning check-ins with M.I.N.D.F.U.L. Mondays to encourage application of knowledge and integration into your personal and professional life.

CEUs Available

Created and Facilitated by
Diana Martinez, M.A.

We are often unaware of the history behind our perceptions of each other that are both conscious and unconscious thoughts. Many of these ideas and preconceptions are informal knowledge that originate from white supremacist ideology. White supremacist ideology has gone through a long historical process many people are not aware of. These ideas have a strong influence on how we think about healthcare, disease, and each other. This training will cover history that influences our current problems with racial disparity in the health care system. The issues that are addressed in this training may be quite a lot, but it is a fraction of many issues that persist.

The course Racial Inequality in Healthcare is about uncovering and discovering the historical and more recent racial disparities in healthcare. Learning about the past is relevant to our awareness and sensitivity to communities of color in the present. We need to be aware about what people have been capable of doing to others in the name of medicine. We need to know the thought and ideology that has led to those actions. We also need to be able to identify the actions and how they happened. All to make us more aware of how people of color experience issues of health unequally.

Resources and Tools for Further Learning

Check out DRIEP blogs focused on race and identity, as well as other educational and insightful writings.

Eugenics and the Authority of White Institutions

Where is the Truth of My Heritage?

Your Stories of Racism (The Atlantic)

Learn more about the organizations that endorsed our Anti-Racism Training.

Texas Poor People's Campaign

Red Handed Warrior Society

Brown Berets del Chuco

Check out these groups and organizations:

Greenlining
Advancement Project
NAACP
Poor People's Campaign
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Black Lives Matter
The Audre Lorde Project
The ACLU
Mothers Against Police Brutality

For more opportunities to follow organizations doing racial justice work, click here.

Give to Racial Justice

Give a closer look to racially diverse authors, scientists, leaders, and entrepreneurs. Look at organizations that fight for racial justice and donate to them. Find people of color owned businesses and become a customer. Expand and enrich your experience in life by stepping out of your bubble. This page of suggestions can help.

Ten Organizations to Give a Donation

Color of Change

The country’s largest online racial justice organization, Color of Change mobilizes its 1.4 million members to knock down the walls that hold Black people back. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
Advancement Project National Office

We’re working with Advancement Project National Office this year on issues like reforming our broken money bail system. Supporting their mission means getting hundreds of thousands of innocent people out of jail and back to their families. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
NAACP

The NAACP has been on the front lines of the struggle for racial justice since 1909. The nation’s largest civil rights organization, the NAACP is dedicated to securing progress for communities of color and all Americans. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
Dream Defenders

Dream Defenders was founded in 2012, after Trayvon Martin was murdered in Sanford, Florida. They’re developing a new generation of leaders ready to end the criminalization of Black and Latinx youth. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
Know Your Rights Camp

Colin Kaepernick took a knee and changed the world. He founded Know Your Rights to empower young people of color and teach them how to interact with law enforcement. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
#Cut50

Van Jones and Newt Gingrich don’t join forces too often, but they did for #cut50, a bipartisan advocacy organization with a mission to reduce the prison population and make our communities safer and stronger. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
Black Youth Project

Young Black Americans are often talked about in the media, but it seems like they’re rarely heard from. The Black Youth Project provides a much-needed platform for the ideas and voices of Black millennials. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter is a dynamic, chapter-based, international organization whose goal is to create a world where violence is no longer inflicted on Black people. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

Founded in 1976, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation is dedicated to increasing civic engagement and voter participation in Black and underserved communities. Learn more and donate here. Click Here
Live Free USA

Live Free is a collection of congregations that’s working to create a movement for racial and economic change by increasing civic engagement and economic investment in communities of color. Learn more and donate here. Click Here

Support Minority-Owned Businesses in Your Community

The Intentionalist is a nationwide-directory that makes it easy to find and support local small businesses and the diverse people behind them through everyday decisions about where we eat, drink, and shop. Click here.

Representation Matters

Check out the resources below to learn about people of color throughout various fields in history and present day. This is a critical component of anti-racism: recognizing the whitewashing of our education and media and actively seeking to find and learn about people of color in all spaces.

Ten Black Scientists You Should Know (PBS)

Eleven Native American Scientists and Engineers (Science Buddies)

Spotlighting Latinx Scientists (Gladstone Institutes)

17 New Authors of Color Writing Stories for Kids (Brightly)

29 Fiction Books by Black and Minority Authors (Literary)

Diverse Artists (Anti-Racist Art Teachers)

100 Years of Black Representation in Hollywood Films (CBC)