Community Education
The Diversity and Resiliency Institute of El Paso offers education and training for community members who need help accessing resources, who want to become more involved in their community, and who want to become more socially conscious. We believe that access is key to resilient communities.
Education Brings Growth and Empowerment.
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Education Brings Change.
Healing Arts from the Borderland
By Borderland Rainbow Center
The Borderland Rainbow Center in El Paso, Texas, hosts non-traditional, Queer, and Intersectional healing artists who share their healing journey, their experience, and their recovery tools, to help listeners find their own healing from trauma.
www.borderlandrainbow.org/
Facebook @borderlandrainbowcenter
Instagram @borderlandrainbowcenter
Twitter @BRainbowCenter
YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCa4GRplymPUJBnfEn9zbPJg
Contact
This work is funded by TAASA on behalf of the Department of Justice.
Current and Future Training Themes
- What it means to be an ally
- Performative allyship
- Understanding privilege
- Perceived barriers to allyship
- Reconciling previously held beliefs with new knowledge
Allyship
Community Empowerment
- Identifying a common goal
- Strategic messaging
- Building capacity
- Cultural humility
- Coalition building
- Power and privilege
Accessing Resources
- Therapy
- Social service programs
- Name and Gender marker changes
- More
