What YVPN and Project Focus On 

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.