Racial and Ethnic Concerns
The Office of Racial and Ethnic Concerns provides leadership in the development of strategies and resources to make Unitarian Universalism welcoming, affirming, and inclusive of Latinas/os and Hispanics, multiracial families, and people of color. Services include advocacy, consultation, resource development, and support for Unitarian Universalist religious professionals, lay leaders, and seminarians who identify as people of color, Latina/o and Hispanic, and/or multiracial. In addition, this office provides support for leadership development and community building to Unitarian Universalist affiliate organizations and committees that represent the interests of the constituents named above.Building the World We Dream About is a new curriculum that focuses on ways to affirm and include persons who identify as people of color and/or Latina/o and Hispanic. Currently it is in field test with a release date of 2009.
The Mosaic Project, an assessment of our Unitarian Universalist ministry to youth and young adults of color and/or Latina/o and Hispanic and multiracial descent, is an important process underway at the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Another new project is the Diversity of Ministry Team's (DOMT) initiative, whose focus is to create healthy, sustainable ministries with ministers of color and Latina/o, Hispanic, and multiracial clergy and to support seminarians during their formation. It will also focus on organizing congregational involvement in the initiative.
For more information contact idbm @ uua.org.
Last updated on Thursday, March 27, 2008.
