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Embrace Race
Founded by parents, Embrace Race Is an excellent resource for resources, tools and ideas for how to talk with kids about race. From their webinars to online discussion spaces, to parent and teacher resources this is a go-to organization to learn hands-on strategies for talking about race. Sign up for their newsletter or check out their YouTube videos.
Sesame Street
Seasoned supported of kids offers great resources for kids. Also check out:
Never too young, ages and stages of racial understanding
.
The Trevor Project
&
GLSEN
Resources for creating safe spaces and support for LGBTQ+ and allies.
The Conscious Kid
An education, research and policy organization dedicated to reducing bias and promoting positive identity development in youth working to promote access to children’s books centering underrepresented and oppressed groups. Has age-leveled recommendations for books.
Wabanaki Alliance
Learn more about Native Americans who live in Maine, their history and why it's important today.
Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Sign up to borrow from the library or pick up at a bookstore a copy of
Anti-Racist Baby
by Ibram X. Kendi with nine steps for building a more equitable world.
Cover used with permission from Penguin Young Readers
Black Lives Matter at School
A national coalition organizing for racial justice in education that encourages all educators, students, parents, unions, and community organizations to join our annual week of action during the first week of February each year. This organization and its annual curriculum resources have been endorsed by the National Education Association. To learn more about this organization, click the link above.
Connect with your school librarian: They have a wealth of resources on how to use books to increase representation in literature as well as for tools for how to talk about race, or racism in the classroom with books.
Processing and Responding to Racial Bias Events With Children and Youth
Talking to Children After Racial Incidents
resource from Howard Stevenson, Clinical Psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
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upporting Kids of Color in the Wake of Racialized Violence
from EmbraceRace co-founders Andrew Grant-Thomas and Melissa Giraud conference call discussion with parents, teachers and other concerned adults, as well as invited expert guests, child psychologist Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith and educator Dr. Sandra “Chap” Chapman from 7/14/16.
Center for Racial Justice in Education
resources for talking about race, racism and racialized violence with kids.
What to Say to Kids When the News Is Scary
from National Public Radio (2020)
Helping Youth After Community Trauma
resource for educators from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Videos:
The first two videos provide insight into the story of racism against Black people in America. (Warning - viewer discretion advised on the first video below - contains inappropriate language and displays angry emotions.) The third video is a resource for teachers about being an anti-racist educator.