Youth, Youth Groups and Adults Working with Youth
Trainings
Groundwork
Groundwork is the Anti-Racism training and organizing program of Unitarian Universalist youth and young adults. GROUNDWORK trainers facilitate dialogue, education and organizing in congregations, schools and community groups, and are available to lead workshops, trainings and conferences. Groundwork trainers are youth (14-20 years old), young adults (18-35 years old) and adult allies. The program offers several different types of workshops, which are youth and young adult led and centered and available for participants of any age. Groundwork workshops or trainings would be great for youth groups or intergenerational gatherings of the whole community.
Print and Online Resources
Anti-Racism Movie Guide
The Anti-Racism Movie Guide (PDF) provides discussion guides for Mi Familia, American History X, Slam, and Smoke Signals. Watching one or all and discussing them is a really good first step in looking at race and racism in the United States.
Synapse
Over the years, the Youth Office and YRUU's magazine Synapse has taken on issues of race and racism. In our online archive of past issues you will find great articles and activities that will help you better understand race and racism.
- Anti-Racism in UUism (PDF)
- Education Reform and Multi-Culturalism (PDF)
- Ending the Cycles of Hate (PDF)
- Stopping the Tides of Racism (PDF)
Super Working Action Team Packet of Activist Tools (SWAT-PoAT)
The SWAT PoAT (PDF) (pronounced "swat pot") is a resource for youth and youth allies who want to learn more about, or organize around, YRUU's Working Action Issue, Education Reform and Multiculturalism. It includes resource lists, possible workshops for youth groups, information about YRUU's social justice structure, and more.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race
by Beverly
Daniel Tatum, PH.D
Tatum's book is a great resource for adults working with
youth of any racial background. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? is very readable in its explanation of
young peoples' racial identity development.
For more information contact yruuatuuadotorg.
Last updated on Wednesday, March 7, 2007.
