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What YVPN and Project Focus On 

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Resources and Tools

Implicit Bias

How to Think about Implicit Bias: Common misconceptions about implicit bias.
Strategies to Address Implicit Bias: ​Provides an overview in recognizing and addressing one's implicit bias.  Also provides detailed strategies to assist in this process.
Conformity In The Workplace: ​Addresses how people of color are more likely to feel the need to conform in the workplace.
Overconfidence Bias: People tend to be more confident in their abilities, like driving, spelling, singing etc., than what they are in reality.  This also involves ethics and people have a tendency to believe they are more ethically just than they actually are.
Implicit Bias: Impact On Decision Making: Dr. Rita Cameron Wedding discusses how implicit bias can affect policy-making, policy design, perceptions of risk and strategies to reduce it.

Equity

Achieving Racial Equality: Tactics and statistics about racial equality in America.
​Addressing Dominant Culture: ​Details the change needed to shift from the dominant 'norm' of culture to alternatives that are more beneficial for society as a whole.  Recommends adopting a holistic view of people and avoiding a good and bad view of bias and focusing on the unconscious biases we all carry.
Race Counts: Statistics detailing racial disparity across the different counties of California. 

Trauma-Informed Systems

Cultural Responsiveness

Creating a Trauma-Informed System: Highlights the elements of a trauma informed system.
What it means to be culturally responsive: Defines what it means to be culturally responsive.
. Principles of Trauma-Informed Systems: Outlines the core elements of what makes a trauma-informed system
Protocol for Culturally Responsive Organizations: Describes the elements an organization must have in order to be culturally responsive.  Also provides resources to achieve these benchmarks.
Trauma-Informed Policy Changes: How leaders can make policy changes in order to establish more trauma-informed systems.
 
Chistopher Alonso, Community Impact Coordinator
831.465.2211

calonso@unitedwaysc.org

United Way of Santa Cruz County
4450 Capitola Rd, Ste 106
Capitola, CA 95010

831.479.5466
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  • Home
  • About
    • About YAN
    • YAN Steering Committee
    • YAN Partner Organizations
    • Strategy & Jurisdictional Team
    • YAN & UCSC Research
    • YAN Planning Meetings
  • News & Events
    • YAN Pop-Up Events
    • Media Spotlights
    • Newsletters
    • Equity & Youth Leadership Summit
  • History
    • YVPN History
    • Project Thrive
    • Capacity Building Activities
    • Tools and Resources
  • Reports
    • Dialogues for Change Final Report
    • Student Success Project
  • Resources & Programs
    • Youth Programs
    • COVID-19 Resources
  • Contact