Antiracism Training for Anyone in Human Services, Education and Child Welfare

Are You Challenged by How to Deal with Race Issues in Your Practice, Institution or in the Classroom?
Are You Concerned about the Impact of Racism in our City and State?

We invite you to be part of our movement to advance institutional change for racial equity. Workshop participants will engage in a comprehensive exploration of how racism shapes American institutions, often without our conscious understanding that it is doing so. Applicants should be individuals in positions to take knowledge gained in the workshop back to their colleagues, institutions and wider communities. The goal is to foster local work groups that will continue the conversation and work toward institutional change.

These unique 2 1/2 day workshops are offered by The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, a national, multiracial, anti-racist network from New Orleans dedicated to ending racism and other forms of institutional oppression. Now in its 25th year, the Institute has provided training, consultation, and leadership development to more than 110,000 people in organizations nationally and internationally.

Graduates of the workshop say that the workshop helps them deal with both cultural competence and racial dynamics in the classroom and in practice.

The People’s Institute analysis moves beyond a focus on the symptoms of racism to an understanding of what it is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone. The workshop stresses learning from history, developing leadership, maintaining accountability to communities of color, creating networks, undoing internalized oppression, and understanding the role of organizational gatekeeping in perpetuating racism.

Cost is $350, per person and $175 for students.

Staten Island, New York

October 11-13, 2017 
Wed, Oct 11, 6 PM – 8:30 PM
Thu, Oct 12, 9 AM – 5 PM
Fri, Oct 13, 9 AM – 3:30 PM
358 St Marks place
Staten Island, NY 

 To Register Online click here

Accepting all major credit and debit cards
We prefer that you register online.
STUDENTS WITH ID ONLY $175.00 
GENERAL $350.00
This program is approved for 16 CE Credit Hours. 
For LCSWs/LMSWs, LCATs, LMHCs, LMFTs, LCATs, 
For CE registration contact:
Lynn Mercredi at MPG Consulting
LynnMercredi@gmail.com

If You Cannot Register Online

Please click here for the registration form. Print the form, complete it, and mail it with your check to the address listed below

Please make checks out to The People’s Institute

People’s Institute
c/o Sandy Bernabei
351 W 53rd Street, #4 E
New York, N.Y. 10019

For information call
Milta Vega Cardona 347-319-7427
Sandy Bernabei 914-522-5997

Through dialogue, reflection, role-playing, strategic planning and presentations, this intensive process challenges participants to analyze the structures of power and privilege that hinder social equity and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice. The multiracial team of organizers/trainers includes more than 40 men and women whose anti-racist organizing expertise includes years with civil, labor and welfare rights struggles, educational, foster care, social service and health reform movements, as well as youth and grassroots community organizing. An average of 10-15 groups per month participate in The People’s Institute Undoing Racism®/Community Organizing process.

Workshop participants will:

• Develop a common definition of racism and an understanding of its different forms: individual, institutional, linguistic, and cultural;
• Develop a common language and analysis for examining racism in the United States;
• Understand one’s own connection to institutional racism and its impact on his/her work;
• Understand why people are poor and the role of institutions in exacerbating institutional racism, particularly for people and communities of color;
• Understand the historical context for how racial classifications in the United States came to be and how and why they are maintained;
• Understand the historical context for how U.S. institutions came to be and who they have been designed to serve;
• Understand how all of us, including white people, are adversely impacted by racism every day, everywhere;
• Address surface assumptions about how your work is (or is not) affected by racism;
• Develop awareness and understanding about ways to begin Undoing Racism;
• Gain knowledge about how to be more effective in the work you do with your constituencies, your organizations, your communities, your families;
• Understand the role of community organizing and building effective multiracial coalitions as a means for Undoing Racism.