Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

We’re pleased to welcome you to our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Toolkit!

Included below are links to helpful tools and resources for health centers, school administration and staff, parents, and even youth to learn more and educate themselves and others on the topics of equity, diversity, inclusion, implicit bias, and racism.

The term ‘implicit bias’ refers to subconscious thoughts and feelings of bias, whether it be aversion or partiality, which make us see or treat a person or group of people differently. Maybe it doesn’t occur as outward bigotry but as subliminal discrimination. When compounded by exposure to cultural stereotypes and prejudice, this bias leads a population to unwittingly facilitate structural and systemic racism in mainstream culture. The most dangerous thing about implicit bias though is that because it is a largely subconscious feeling for an individual. The person often does identify the bias in themselves and therefore does not attempt to correct it. So, what is the solution?

Much research has been done to examine implicit bias and determine what can be done to reverse and disrupt it in the minds of those affected. Thankfully, through education and examination of the issue, change can be achieved. Equally important, implicit bias can be prevented with early intervention among children as well. The resources below are important and useful tools to discuss how implicit bias, racism, and privilege work together to create systemic inequity and hopefully can inspire an enlightened viewpoint for those affected moving forward.

Our goal is to ensure that this toolkit as an ever-growing resource for everyone! So, if you have any suggestions for resources that should be added to (or removed from) the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion toolkit, please send a message to Robin Turner at rturner@scha-mi.org.

20 minute podcast about hard conversations: Talking Race With Young Children

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716700866/talking-race-with-young-children

Health Center Resources:

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing has a great Toolkit for Health Equity and Inclusion.  There are 6 modules which include a Case Vignette at the end with a few discussion questions.  Great for school-based health center staff discussions.  Access the Toolkit here: https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/resources/integrated-health-coe-toolkit-purpose-of-this-toolkit/whats-included-in-this-toolkit/module-1-health-equity/

Books:

What Works: Gender Equality by Design, Iris Bohnet
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence, Derald Wing Sue
Blind Spot, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, Beverly Daniel Tatum – look for the YouTube video too!
The Conversation, Robert Livingston
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
Over-Coming Bias, Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman
Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad – You can order a Young readers Edition too. (Please include in Youth section)

Film:

Race: The Power of an Illusion, film.  Includes an Episode Guide.   3 episodes.

Youth:

The PRaCY instrument for measuring the perceptions of race for children and youth. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2891186/

The Every Day Discrimination Scale: https://scholar.harvard.edu/davidrwilliams/node/32397

Health Centers:

Project 562 – YouTube Video, about half an hour.  Telling the story of positive Native American experiences.  (562 represents all 562 tribes).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JrRBQEQr3o

Book:  Tell Me Who You Are:  Sharing Our Stories of Race, Culture and Identity, by Winona Guo.

Book:  Unequal Treatment:  Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare

“Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give
us the ultimate human freedom…the power to choose, to
respond, to change”

Steven Covey

Health Center and School Staff Curriculum

Short videos, could be a great conversation starter in your center:

Self Assessment

Working with Young People

Parent/Guardians