DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION Resources for Mentors in light of Recent Events

Dear BBBS matches, This is the fourth installment in a weekly series of addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion in our BBBS family. This week, we'd like to focus on answering, "what do we do?" We welcome your feedback and questions, and we thank you for your time and intentionality!

Past DEI Emails:

Week 1 Link: 3 Tips for Bigs: Assumptions, Privilege, and Building Bridges  Week 2 Link: Feedback from Parents and Mentors Week 3 Link: Having intentional conversations with careful language

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO

Write together: "Where I'm from" to share your individual cultural backgrounds: click here for a framework Read this (3-4th grade level) children's allegory about the Holocaust to discuss being a bystander vs. an upstander Learn Spanish or another language together on Duolingo Play icivic games to help kids learn about how their bills, laws, and representatives work! Seek books, movies and shows with positive minority representation (See below for trailers for Hidden Figures and The Great Debaters) Article: How mentors can support ethnic / racial identity in mentees Read a book together; House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, is a great 6-7th grade novel with short chapters about dystopian Mexico, and it incorporates some Spanish and lends to some really deep conversations! Put together a Juneteenth holiday for your match and/or write your representatives about whether you think it should be observed elsewhere! Cook food together to learn about different places around the world

Click here if you'd like to sign your Little / Child up to be able to talk with some of our Bigs who are police officers, if we arrange an event around this.

Learn about your local community

Check out this data book from the Indiana Youth Institute Try one of the black-owned Fort Wayne Restaurants

More Resources:

Webinar for BBBS mentors on microaggressions The School-to-Prison Pipeline

Douglas family child-teen singers try to bring positive messaging through beautiful songs

What kind of training do you think would most help your match? trauma and stress responses Select disability resources Select relationship / bonding Select ages / stages of development; especially teens! Select

Thank you for all you do, and please don't hesitate to reach out to us at 260-456-1600.

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