by lindaoppenheim | Sep 7, 2016 | Article
Stephanie Saul’s article describes programs on several college campuses to help their incoming classes avoid hurting fellow students with microaggressions and other insensitivities. She also refers to “[t]he backlash . . . exemplified recently in a widely...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 9, 2016 | law
A-1663wGR/S-1142 (Schaer, Prieto, Sumter, Danielsen, Johnson, Mukherji/Turner) – Requires DLPS to establish and make available to law enforcement agencies cultural diversity training materials and online tutorial. According to the Princeton Patch: “The...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 4, 2016 | Events, Workshop
Inspired in part by their participation in Not In Our Town’s Continuing Conversations, local-area trainers Eliane Geren and Kathy Wilcox are planning to offer a four-session series training for white allies this fall. Emotional First-Aid: the Missing...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 6, 2015 | Broadcast, Continuing Conversations
“Police departments around the country are instituting anti-bias training for their officers. The Justice Department encourages it, but for many cops the training doesn’t seem effective or necessary.” Listen to the NPR segment discussing this...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 15, 2015 | Article
Los Vegas police department was able to change the reactions of its police force to young black males through implicit bias training. Hear the story on NPR’s This American Life.