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January 2017<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> <strong>Newsletter</strong><br />
2017 Issue 1<br />
Inside this issue:<br />
If Not Now, When?<br />
If Not Now,<br />
When?<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> April 2017<br />
Institute<br />
Respect: <strong>NCBI</strong><br />
Switzerland Program<br />
on Muslims<br />
and Jews<br />
Police-Community<br />
Partnerships<br />
Which Way is<br />
Home? <strong>NCBI</strong> in<br />
Highschools<br />
Men Embracing<br />
the Gender<br />
Sprectrum<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> on college<br />
campuses<br />
1<br />
1<br />
2<br />
3<br />
4-5<br />
5<br />
6-9<br />
The work of <strong>NCBI</strong> is needed<br />
now more than ever. After a highly<br />
divisive electoral campaign in<br />
the U.S., with nationalist, antiimmigrant<br />
sentiments rising in<br />
Europe, we need to help everyone<br />
around us organize effective intergroup<br />
coalitions, listen to heart<br />
felt concerns underneath divisive<br />
issues, and find principled voices<br />
for leadership.<br />
As always, <strong>NCBI</strong> is on the<br />
front lines working with current<br />
issues. Read in this newsletter<br />
how <strong>NCBI</strong>'s law enforcement/<br />
community trust building program<br />
brought together police and community<br />
leaders for a year long<br />
Train the Trainer program in Philadelphia.<br />
Gender work is featured<br />
in this issue in What's New in<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> constituency work. And as<br />
incidents against African Heritage<br />
and Latino people's, Muslims, Jews,<br />
immigrants, LGBTQ people, and<br />
women continue to rise on college<br />
campuses, <strong>NCBI</strong> leaders are<br />
being trained to reduce bias and<br />
inter- group tensions on campus.<br />
Read how <strong>NCBI</strong> campus affiliate<br />
teams are taking the lead in building<br />
inclusive environments on<br />
campus where everyone, from all<br />
backgrounds and identities, can<br />
b e w e l c o m e d .<br />
Many of us entered 2017 with<br />
weary, challenged hearts-- unsure<br />
how we were going to repair the<br />
growing divisions and discriminatory<br />
behavior around us. We in<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> believe deeply in a key<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> principle: We don't change<br />
people's minds. We change their<br />
hearts. <strong>NCBI</strong> is primed and ready<br />
to engage leaders everywhere in<br />
our life changing principles and<br />
practices to change hearts.<br />
Make 2017 the year to join us at<br />
one of our life changing Leadership<br />
for Diversity Institutes in April,<br />
August, and November in Hunt<br />
Valley, Maryland. Learn more<br />
about how <strong>NCBI</strong> diversity and<br />
inclusion work on college campuses,<br />
in K-12 schools, in communities<br />
and police departments, and<br />
environmental organizations is<br />
bringing needed hope to thousands<br />
of leaders and activists.<br />
The task before us is challenging.<br />
But we are just the people to<br />
take it on. As always, I am proud<br />
to work in partnership with an<br />
awesome, diverse group of senior<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> leaders, working ceaselessly<br />
to bring our much needed tools to<br />
leaders everywhere.<br />
Cherie Brown,<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> CEO<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Leadership for Diversity Institute - April 26-29, 2017<br />
Participants at a 2016 Institute.<br />
Register Today!<br />
The Leadership for Diversity<br />
Institute teaches participants<br />
hands-on, practical skills for building<br />
cultural competency, welcoming<br />
diversity, and increasing unity<br />
and inclusion. Whether you are a<br />
college administrator or faculty; a<br />
schoolteacher or parent; a manager<br />
who is responsible for supervis-<br />
ing diverse employees in government<br />
or in the corporate world; a<br />
police officer or community activist<br />
– this Institute will give you the<br />
hands-on skills needed to be an<br />
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In large group classes, participants<br />
learn a replicable set of<br />
practical skills; then in small group<br />
settings, there is an opportunity to<br />
practice the skills with support<br />
and encouragement from others.<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong>’s leadership for Diversity<br />
Institute is right around the corner.<br />
It will take place April 26-29,<br />
2016 at Hunt Valley Inn, MD.<br />
Learn more here.<br />
Register now!
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Respect: Overcoming Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism together<br />
“At our Muslim Jewish<br />
events, we discover<br />
again and again how<br />
similar the two cultures<br />
are ...The experience of<br />
being targeted for oppression<br />
in similar<br />
ways.”<br />
“We are convinced<br />
that our work is<br />
more important than<br />
ever. With rising fear<br />
comes a broadened<br />
recognition that this<br />
work is needed.”<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Switzerland has been<br />
conducting a program called<br />
"Respect: overcoming islamophobia<br />
and anti-Semitism together"<br />
for more than 4 years. We conduct<br />
encounter workshops, Respect-Seders<br />
(Passover celebrations)<br />
and Respect-Iftars (breaking<br />
the fast at Ramadan) as well as<br />
Feast of the Sacrifice (the stories<br />
of Ishmael and Isaac), women's<br />
dinners and special workshops on<br />
thinking well about the Near East<br />
and other topics. We have held<br />
special events in connection with<br />
museum exhibitions on the Albanians<br />
who saved Jews during WW II<br />
or on the Jewish emancipation in<br />
Switzerland 150 years ago, when<br />
Jews became citizens for the first<br />
time.<br />
The current news reminds me<br />
that history comes back in many<br />
ways: Switzerland first allowed<br />
foreign Jews to travel freely in<br />
Switzerland because of pressure<br />
from France and the USA in support<br />
of their Jewish citizens and<br />
later allowed Swiss Jews to live<br />
where they wanted to, and not<br />
just in two villages (as had been<br />
the case for centuries). Maybe<br />
other countries can now press the<br />
USA to treat equally their binational<br />
citizens with roots in<br />
Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and the<br />
other banned Muslim countries.<br />
We have an <strong>NCBI</strong> chapter director<br />
and an Advisory Board member,<br />
both from Iraq. Our team of<br />
Syrian "Bridge Builders” all have<br />
family and friends affected by the<br />
US Muslim immigration ban.<br />
We recently led a training for<br />
the coordination team of the Muslim<br />
Jewish Conference in Berlin<br />
and we have been actively involved<br />
in this international event<br />
each year.<br />
At our Muslim Jewish events,<br />
we discover again and again how<br />
similar the two cultures are: the<br />
shared immigrant experience<br />
(offset by a generation or two),<br />
the joint experience of being minorities,<br />
the internal divisions<br />
based on religiosity, as well as the<br />
experience of being targeted for<br />
oppression in similar ways. A few<br />
years ago, there was a Swiss debate<br />
about banning male ritual<br />
circumcision; there is currently a<br />
Swiss ban on both kosher and<br />
hallal slaughter etc.) We also notice<br />
the important differences for<br />
example, in class, education, institutional<br />
development and resources.<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Switzerland has a dynamic,<br />
mixed team of mostly<br />
young adults organizing and leading<br />
events throughout the year in<br />
various areas of Switzerland and a<br />
couple of times annually in neighboring<br />
countries. We are very<br />
excited that our grassroots work<br />
led to the formation of a Committee<br />
for Dialogue within the national<br />
Jewish and Muslim umbrella<br />
organizations, and the Respect<br />
team is a member group.<br />
Through this work, we are working<br />
more and more together, Muslims<br />
and Jews.<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Switzerland also developed<br />
a "Statement against Hate"<br />
which has been signed by organizations,<br />
individuals and most recently<br />
also by members of Parliament.<br />
The Statement calls for no<br />
hate or violence against religious<br />
minorities or in the name of a<br />
r e l i g i o n . ( w w w . n c b i . c h /<br />
statementgegenhass - in German<br />
and French). In December, a<br />
young non-Muslim man walked<br />
into a mostly Somali mosque and<br />
shot 3 people, wreaking terror on<br />
the Muslim and especially the Somali<br />
communities. The response<br />
by the authorities has been disappointing<br />
- there has not been public<br />
outpouring of support.<br />
The Jewish communities have<br />
been requesting support for their<br />
security in light of violent and<br />
deadly attacks throughout Europe<br />
on Jews and Jewish institutions.<br />
The Swiss government recently<br />
issued a report confirming the<br />
danger and the need for enhanced<br />
security - and suggesting that the<br />
Jewish community create a foundation<br />
to pay for this themselves.<br />
This report feeds on stereotypes<br />
about Jews and money and repeats<br />
the history of WW II, where all<br />
refugee assistance for fleeing Jews<br />
in Switzerland was financed by the<br />
Jewish community - not by the<br />
government! The ensuing uproar<br />
has had little effect to date - and<br />
the cantonal government in Zurich,<br />
where most of the 18,000<br />
Jews in Switzerland live, has rejected<br />
responsibility for security<br />
costs.<br />
We are convinced that our<br />
work is more important than ever.<br />
With rising fear comes a broadened<br />
recognition that this work is<br />
needed. You can follow the work<br />
of <strong>NCBI</strong> Switzerland on our Facebook<br />
page, which is mostly in<br />
German and sometimes in English.<br />
Ron Halbright,<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Switzerland
2017 Issue 1<br />
Police-Community Partnerships—We Are Mantua<br />
This yearlong project began in<br />
January 2016 to build relationships<br />
between officers and community<br />
members who live and work in<br />
the Mantua area of Philadelphia. It<br />
was funded by a grant provided by<br />
DOJ/OJP/BJA Byrne Criminal Justice<br />
Innovation in partnership with<br />
the Mt. Vernon Manor, Inc. This<br />
extensive project included on-theground<br />
outreach with community<br />
members and multiple ride-alongs<br />
with officers. <strong>NCBI</strong> consultants<br />
(Fabienne Brooks and Guillermo<br />
Lopez) worked with the 16 th Police<br />
District law enforcement leadership<br />
and officers, community<br />
leaders and BCJI stakeholders to<br />
build healthier relationships and<br />
facilitate more positive communications.<br />
In May 2016, 16 th District<br />
Philadelphia Police Department<br />
officers and Drexel campus police<br />
officers were trained in Customer<br />
Service and Diversity by Fabienne<br />
Brooks, Guillermo Lopez and our<br />
CEO Cherie Brown. The Director<br />
of Affinity Programs and leader of<br />
the Black African Heritage Caucus,<br />
Joyce Shabazz, provided support<br />
to the leadership team. In September<br />
and October, Guillermo<br />
Lopez led multiple exposure<br />
workshops that officers and community<br />
members attended. In<br />
November 2016, a three-day<br />
Train the Trainer program was<br />
held at a Mantua neighborhood<br />
church. The Train the Trainer<br />
participants included police officers<br />
and community members who<br />
learned how to lead Diversity<br />
workshops in the community.<br />
One of the activities in the<br />
Train the Trainer was learning<br />
about Listening Tables. The community-police<br />
partnership teams<br />
were trained to set up listening<br />
tables in schools and at community<br />
meetings where the team sits<br />
together as police and community<br />
activists, modeling cooperation, as<br />
they listen to folks who wander<br />
over to their table to answer a<br />
question posted. One question<br />
was: how can we improve lives for<br />
both community members and<br />
police here in Mantua. T h e p r o -<br />
gram is being evaluated at each<br />
step by Cedar Crest College for<br />
efficacy and long-lasting change.<br />
There was a year long evaluation<br />
and a “Best Practice” document<br />
completed by an independent evaluation<br />
team that demonstrated<br />
significant attitudinal change between<br />
officers and community<br />
leaders. Co-Director, Law Enforcement<br />
Programs,<br />
Fabienne Brooks,<br />
Co-Director, Law Enforcement<br />
Programs,<br />
Participants at the WAM BCJI Trainthe<br />
–Trainer workshop.<br />
Participants at the WAM BCJI Train-the-Trainer<br />
workshop.
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“Which Way is Home?” - <strong>NCBI</strong> In High schools<br />
“The arts combined with<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> principles and practices<br />
created a powerful<br />
alchemy for healing and<br />
change.”<br />
Ensemble cast of the Social<br />
Justice Theater Program.<br />
“Pain that is not<br />
transformed is<br />
transmitted. Story telling<br />
Once in a while a perfect<br />
storm of courage, voices, collaboration,<br />
and love comes together<br />
and a miracle happens. In the<br />
2015 – 2016 school year at Albany<br />
High School, Albany, NY the Capital<br />
District Chapter of <strong>NCBI</strong> was<br />
asked to build bridges and to reduce<br />
tensions between immigrant/<br />
refugee and African American<br />
student groups. <strong>NCBI</strong> focus<br />
groups and coalition building<br />
workshops were held. Where the<br />
magic happened was when we<br />
brought the speak out stories into<br />
an after school Social Justice Theatre<br />
Program to form the basis for<br />
a student written production.<br />
As each participant told the<br />
story of their journey to find a<br />
place in Albany, NY a common<br />
thread of alienation and prejudice<br />
that both groups had experienced<br />
in their search for a place of<br />
home, a place of belonging came<br />
through.<br />
"The project helps people find<br />
a place of home in themselves<br />
and you learn from it and then<br />
you get to share it with the<br />
high. But you will hear this<br />
beautiful black girl’s voice because<br />
I matter.”<br />
-Camille, 10th grade participant<br />
The students became characters<br />
in each other’s story and in<br />
some cases they even took the<br />
lead in another person’s story.<br />
Slowly, steadily, they literally<br />
walked in each other’s shoes.<br />
Strong bonds of friendship and<br />
family were formed. The play began<br />
with this narrative:<br />
“Pain that is not transformed is<br />
transmitted. Story telling transforms<br />
our pain and your pain.<br />
Here in this room, tonight,<br />
there is no difference between<br />
those telling the story and those<br />
listening.<br />
Our stories are yours as well.<br />
Tonight we are one. “<br />
“Stand up if your place of birth<br />
archive/2016/12/11/which-way-ishome.<br />
This coming school year, the<br />
students who were in the play will<br />
become a Bridge Builder Team of<br />
Artist Activists and with training<br />
from the <strong>NCBI</strong> Chapter they will<br />
bring their filmed stories into<br />
classrooms and lead discussions.<br />
They will continue to meet after<br />
school to prepare and to create a<br />
safe haven for other students to<br />
come to share their stories. An<br />
audio and video library of student’s<br />
stories is being established.<br />
The students voices sang out<br />
like trumpets, they turned their<br />
swords into ploughshares. The<br />
arts combined with <strong>NCBI</strong> principles<br />
and practices created a powerful<br />
alchemy for healing and<br />
change.<br />
Through acting in each other’s<br />
stories, the students learned to<br />
understand each other’s pain and<br />
journey. Each day in rehearsal they<br />
lived being allies for each other.<br />
As audience, we became witness<br />
and participants in their effort to<br />
build bridges. Their lives were<br />
changed and so were ours.<br />
transforms our pain and<br />
world.”<br />
is outside the United States …”<br />
The final verses of the play read:<br />
your pain.”<br />
-Bianke, 11th grade participant.<br />
“You can never take what I<br />
fought for as a child in the refugee<br />
camp, the love of my life,<br />
the opportunity to learn.”-Ar,<br />
12th grade participant<br />
“Try to take away my pride,<br />
take away my hopes leaping<br />
Which Way is Home was<br />
performed in May 2016 at the<br />
community repertoire theatre and<br />
at the Albany High School.<br />
After the play was performed,<br />
funding was found to have Youth<br />
FX, a local non-profit film arts<br />
program video and produce films<br />
of the students’ stories. You can<br />
see the films by going to:<br />
http://<br />
www.artslettersandnumbers.com/<br />
“Why do I feel like if I go out I’ll<br />
die<br />
Why is it I can never feel peace<br />
If we continue to do this we’ll<br />
cease<br />
To exist in a world that’s full of<br />
hate<br />
And always fearing that horrible<br />
fate<br />
Mommy, Mama, Mother, Mom<br />
Tell me that some day it’ll be
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better<br />
And I won’t live in fear forever<br />
Tell me that there’ll be a bright<br />
future ahead<br />
And I won’t have to fear of soon<br />
being dead<br />
We’ll stop reliving the horrors of<br />
the past<br />
And mankind will forever last”<br />
“Through acting in<br />
each other’s stories,<br />
the students learned<br />
to understand each<br />
other’s pain and<br />
journey. “<br />
Ira Baumgarten & Tawana<br />
Davis<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Capital District Chapter<br />
Men Embracing the Gender Spectrum<br />
Fourteen men spen t the<br />
morning of November 17th, 2016<br />
in Rochester NY connecting and<br />
getting closer as we broadened<br />
our perspectives regarding the<br />
gender spectrum. Moving away<br />
from the traditional male/female<br />
binary, we explored a much more<br />
fluid and dynamic interpretation of<br />
gender, gender identity and gender<br />
expression. This <strong>NCBI</strong> workshop,<br />
led by Steve Jarose, Pete<br />
Navratil, Al Dickerson and Rick<br />
Olanoff, looked at gender liberation<br />
as a new frontier. St. John<br />
Fisher College and Dr. Yantee<br />
Slobert, Director of the Office of<br />
Multicultural Affairs and Diversity<br />
Programs, were our generous<br />
hosts.<br />
We shared personal experiences<br />
and considered the possibilities<br />
that accelerate men’s liberation<br />
by moving away from restrictive<br />
male gender roles. We imag-<br />
ine a world where embracing and<br />
exploring the full gender spectrum<br />
is how we can view all of humanity.<br />
We watched a powerful Ted<br />
Talk on gender by Ashley Wylde<br />
with the following link: The Gender<br />
Tag: Authentic Gender Expression<br />
| Ashley Wylde .<br />
The workshop gave us the<br />
opportunity to re-evaluate how<br />
we as men are conditioned into<br />
'maleness' and how we can become<br />
more authentic in expressing<br />
the full nature of our humanness<br />
and combatting sexism. The<br />
result is that we can have a new<br />
understanding of how to be better<br />
allies to one another, to women<br />
and to anyone who identifies as<br />
gender non- conforming. One day<br />
soon, we hope, that will include all<br />
of us.<br />
Rick Olanoff<br />
Syracuse, NY<br />
Dr. Yantee Slobert, Director of Multicultural<br />
Affairs and Diversity Programs<br />
at St. John Fisher College and Steven<br />
Jarose, Director of <strong>NCBI</strong> Rochester, at<br />
the recent Diversity Day activities at<br />
the college.”
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<strong>NCBI</strong>’s Carolina Coalition in action: Bringing <strong>NCBI</strong> skills to campus<br />
Idella Glenn leading an<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> workshop at Furman<br />
in December 2014<br />
“The Coalition has<br />
sponsored <strong>NCBI</strong> trainthe-trainer<br />
programs<br />
to grow the teams and<br />
allow other colleges<br />
and universities to<br />
bring <strong>NCBI</strong> to their<br />
campuses”<br />
North Carolina State University<br />
hosted the 16th Annual <strong>NCBI</strong><br />
Carolina Coalition Train-the-<br />
Trainer event in October 2016,<br />
bringing <strong>NCBI</strong> trained campus<br />
leaders from regional and national<br />
universities to prepare them to<br />
facilitate the <strong>NCBI</strong> leadership for<br />
diversity training. Overall, forty<br />
faculty, staff, and students from<br />
The Citadel, Wofford College,<br />
The University of Alaska at Anchorage,<br />
Presbyterian College and<br />
NC State participated. The training<br />
was led by <strong>NCBI</strong> Coalition<br />
leaders Idella Glenn and Beverly<br />
Williams, assisted by a leadership<br />
team from the participating institutions.<br />
The seeds for the <strong>NCBI</strong> Carolina<br />
Diversity Training Coalition<br />
were planted when three Student<br />
Affairs staff members at Clemson<br />
University participated in an <strong>NCBI</strong><br />
5-Day Leadership Training Institute<br />
in the fall of 1998. The three<br />
returned to Clemson University<br />
and applied for (and received) a<br />
University grant to fund a 3-Day<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Train-The-Trainer in the fall<br />
of 1999. This core group formed<br />
the <strong>NCBI</strong> Clemson Team, the first<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Affiliate in the state of<br />
South Carolina. There was also a<br />
person at nearby Furman University<br />
who was <strong>NCBI</strong>-trained and<br />
this person served as a member-at<br />
-large for the Clemson Affiliate<br />
until a team at Furman University<br />
was established.<br />
The Clemson Affiliate formed<br />
a partnership with several area<br />
schools and applied for an Alliance<br />
2020 Grant to fund another 3-Day<br />
Train-the-Trainer in the fall of<br />
2000. The purpose of this training<br />
was to assist these area schools in<br />
establishing their own <strong>NCBI</strong> affiliates.<br />
The additional schools were:<br />
Furman University, Tri-County<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong>’s team at NC State<br />
Technical College, Anderson College,<br />
and SC State University (an<br />
HBCU). Approximately 45 people<br />
attended this Coalition-building<br />
Train-the-Trainer.<br />
Since this initial training, the<br />
campus Coalition has sponsored<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> train-the-trainer programs<br />
to grow the teams and allow other<br />
colleges and universities to<br />
bring <strong>NCBI</strong> to their campuses, like<br />
SC State University , Furman University,<br />
Piedmont Technical College,<br />
North Carolina State University<br />
, Greenville Technical College<br />
, North Carolina Central<br />
University. <strong>NCBI</strong> is growing on<br />
Campus through the Carolinas.<br />
Idella Glenn<br />
Carolina Coalition Director<br />
The University of Iowa hosts the <strong>NCBI</strong> Campus Conference<br />
“The training was<br />
incredibly wellreceived,<br />
even being<br />
declared the "most<br />
effective diversity<br />
training"<br />
As a strong believer in a community-policing<br />
philosophy and a true<br />
advocate for building meaningful<br />
relationships, Scott Beckner,<br />
the newly appointed assistant vice<br />
president and director of University<br />
of Iowa Public Safety, worked<br />
closely with Bria Marcelo, Director<br />
of the University of Iowa<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Affiliate to host an NCB<br />
Law Enforcement specific training<br />
i n S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 .<br />
The <strong>NCBI</strong> Law Enforcement and<br />
Public Service program, led by<br />
Police Chief (Ret.) Fabienne<br />
Brooks and Guillermo Lopez,<br />
Jr., held two training sessions with<br />
45 officers, dispatchers, detectives,<br />
and security officers. There<br />
were representatives from four<br />
different areas surrounding the<br />
university including the University<br />
of Iowa Police, Iowa City Police,<br />
University Heights Police, and<br />
Coralville Police. All four chiefs<br />
were also in attendance. The<br />
training was incredibly wellreceived,<br />
even being declared the<br />
"most effective diversity training"<br />
folks had ever taken. The University<br />
of Iowa believes this is a good<br />
start - with no signs of stopping.<br />
Outside of working with the<br />
local police forces, the University<br />
of Iowa <strong>NCBI</strong> affiliate has planned<br />
a 2-day institute with Iowa City<br />
downtown business districts. The<br />
first day of the training will focus
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on the <strong>NCBI</strong> Leadership for Equity<br />
and Inclusion training. This initiative<br />
will take place in early January<br />
2017 in coalition with the Chief<br />
Diversity Office, the Office of<br />
Outreach & Engagement, and the<br />
Iowa City Downtown District.<br />
This two-day event hopes to build<br />
better relationships with University<br />
of Iowa students and the businesses<br />
they utilize near campus.<br />
Participants will dive deeper into<br />
learning more about identity, bias,<br />
and strategies to have more inclusive<br />
customer service through a<br />
discussion-based review of case<br />
studies.<br />
What’s next for the UI <strong>NCBI</strong><br />
Affiliate? We are about to plan the<br />
best <strong>NCBI</strong> Campus Conference<br />
yet, set f or November 1 6 -<br />
November 18, 2017. We hope to<br />
see you there!<br />
Dana Dominguez,<br />
University of Iowa<br />
Partnering to bring <strong>NCBI</strong> principles to the USDA<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong>, VTC, and USDA. This<br />
is a lot of acronyms, but they<br />
come together to mean a successful<br />
training and exposure to <strong>NCBI</strong><br />
by many new participants. The<br />
United States Department of Agriculture<br />
(USDA) has an office on<br />
the campus of NC State University<br />
in Raleigh, NC.<br />
A USDA staff member, Roberta<br />
Morales, who is also adjunct<br />
faculty and a member of the NC<br />
State University <strong>NCBI</strong> team wanted<br />
to bring the <strong>NCBI</strong> model to<br />
the USDA. One concern within<br />
the organization was that training<br />
is always held in certain locations<br />
preventing staff in more remote<br />
locations from participating. So<br />
the idea of video teleconferencing<br />
(VTC) was introduced. The VTC<br />
was setup to allow staff members<br />
in Raleigh, NC and Riverdale, MD<br />
to participate in a joint session.<br />
Each site had approximately 25<br />
participants. Working through<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> headquarter, a team of four<br />
facilitators (Beverly Jones Williams<br />
and Roger Callanan in Raleigh;<br />
Idella Glenn and Peter Cowen in<br />
Riverdale) planned and facilitated a<br />
3-hour video session that allowed<br />
for both intimacy and for greater<br />
interaction across state lines.<br />
Feedback from the session<br />
revealed that 97% of participants<br />
rated the overall quality of the<br />
workshop as a “4” or “5” on a 5-<br />
point scale. In addition, 97% of<br />
participants indicated that the<br />
session increased their knowledge<br />
about diversity and would recommend<br />
the session to others. Evaluations<br />
included such comments<br />
as “Great workshop! Would like<br />
the longer version! Great job!”,<br />
“Good to have these conversations<br />
and permission to ask” and<br />
“Travelled 4 hours one way for<br />
workshop - it was worth it”. The<br />
workshop was well received by a<br />
huge majority of participants! .<br />
Beverly Jones Williams<br />
North Carolina State University<br />
“Travelled 4 hours<br />
one way for workshop<br />
- it was worth it”.<br />
“Great workshop!<br />
Would like the longer<br />
version!”<br />
The <strong>NCBI</strong> team at NSCC is moving “Healing into Action”<br />
The work of the National<br />
Coalition Building Institute is alive<br />
and well here at North Shore<br />
Community College (NSCC).<br />
Since June, we’ve offered 17 inclassroom<br />
workshops with a small<br />
team of active trainers. Our goal<br />
is to expand our pool of trainers.<br />
In keeping with that goal, we sent<br />
two staff members, David Bueno<br />
and Bonie Williamson, to the<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Leadership for Diversity<br />
Institute in Maryland in October.<br />
2016. We look forward to having<br />
Bonie and David as an active part<br />
of our team.<br />
In addition to classroom<br />
workshops, we completed, with<br />
the help of our sister institution,<br />
Middlesex Community College, a<br />
One Day Training for faculty, staff,<br />
and students in June, primarily<br />
composed of new people to our<br />
College. It was a great success.<br />
Our Vice-President of Academic<br />
Affairs offered accolades to the<br />
team after the workshop. North<br />
Shore Community College is located<br />
in a very “blue” state, Massachusetts.<br />
The results of the<br />
Presidential election have brought<br />
up a lot of feelings particularly for<br />
those who supported Hillary Clinton<br />
or Jill Stein but also for those<br />
who supported President-elect<br />
Donald Trump or Gary Johnson.<br />
To help process those feelings,<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> partnered with our college<br />
“We completed, with<br />
the help of our sister<br />
institution, Middlesex<br />
Community College, a<br />
One Day Training for<br />
faculty, staff, and students<br />
in June... It was<br />
a great success”
<strong>NCBI</strong> Creates Communities in which everyone want to belong !<br />
National Coalition<br />
Building Institute<br />
8403 Colesville Road<br />
Suite 1100<br />
Phone: (240) 638-2813<br />
Email: info@ncbi.org<br />
www.ncbi.org<br />
We are on<br />
Social Media<br />
The <strong>NCBI</strong> team at NSCC - Continued<br />
counselors and staff in Student Life<br />
to offer Listening Sessions at our<br />
Danvers and Lynn Campuses. We<br />
are currently working on a plan to<br />
support students during the inauguration<br />
and first 100 days process.<br />
NSCC is very lucky to have<br />
Dale Capristo as our support<br />
person for our <strong>NCBI</strong> leadership<br />
team. Monthly meetings with<br />
Dale have helped us to keep focused<br />
on the work of <strong>NCBI</strong> and<br />
move that work forward at the<br />
College. We are also grateful to<br />
have had the support of Robert<br />
Dungey, the former Director of<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong>’s campus program, for two<br />
decades.<br />
At North Shore, we look forward<br />
to continuing our <strong>NCBI</strong><br />
work, now more important than<br />
ever, as we move forward from<br />
“Healing into Action”.<br />
Dave Houle<br />
North Shore Community College<br />
“<strong>NCBI</strong> partnered with<br />
our college counselors<br />
and staff in Student Life<br />
to offer Listening<br />
Sessions at our Danvers<br />
and Lynn campuses”<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong>’s Team at University of Alaska: Building Allies<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong>’s team at the University of<br />
Alaska, Anchorage.<br />
“We have discovered,<br />
through overwhelmingly<br />
positive feedback submitted<br />
by workshop attendees, that<br />
this method better reflects<br />
our comprehensive and<br />
collaborative nature as a<br />
team.”<br />
Over the past twelve months,<br />
the University of Alaska, Anchorage<br />
(UAA) <strong>NCBI</strong> Team successfully<br />
recruited and trained five new<br />
colleagues (via two Train-the-<br />
Trainer Workshops at North<br />
Carolina State University in Raleigh,<br />
North Carolina), thereby<br />
substantially adding to our existing<br />
twelve-member-strong team for a<br />
current total of seventeen individuals.<br />
As a collective group dedicated<br />
to Social Inclusion and Equity,<br />
we are proud to say that we offered<br />
two full-day workshops (20<br />
participants each) for UAA's<br />
E m e r g i n g S t u d e n t L e a d e r s<br />
(February 2016) and for all UAA<br />
Student-Staff-Faculty Members<br />
(October 2016). We have revolutionized<br />
our co-leadership approach<br />
into a tri-leadership model<br />
for day-long workshops, and we<br />
have discovered (through over-<br />
whelmingly positive feedback submitted<br />
by workshop attendees)<br />
that this method better reflects<br />
our comprehensive and collaborative<br />
nature as a team.<br />
Over the course of the entire<br />
year, fourteen <strong>NCBI</strong> Modules<br />
were delivered during Howl Days-<br />
-UAA New Student Orientation<br />
Sessions--exposing hundreds of<br />
students to our Diversity Mission.<br />
Two important <strong>NCBI</strong> Listening<br />
Tables regarding pressing Alaskan<br />
issues were offered during February<br />
2016: "Arms on Campus" and<br />
"University Re-structuring." In<br />
addition, several members visited<br />
selected GUIDANCE 150 class<br />
sessions, providing <strong>NCBI</strong> Modules<br />
to students acclimating to their<br />
first semester within a university<br />
system.<br />
Finally, our UAA Team closed<br />
the calendar year by offering an<br />
<strong>NCBI</strong> Holiday Social (December<br />
2016) in which we reunited with a<br />
total of twelve October 2016<br />
workshop participants who still<br />
wish to maintain close contact<br />
with our entire Campus Affiliate<br />
as "<strong>NCBI</strong> Allies." We send good<br />
cheer from Alaska to all <strong>NCBI</strong><br />
members across the nation, and<br />
we look forward to sharing the<br />
results of our next all-inclusive<br />
Student-Staff-Faculty workshop in<br />
preparation for February 2017!"-<br />
Patricia Fagan<br />
University of Ala ska, Anchorage
Volume 1, Issue 1<br />
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<strong>NCBI</strong> at the Medical College of Wisconsin<br />
The <strong>NCBI</strong> team at the Medical<br />
College of Wisconsin, the MCW<br />
Coalition Builders mission is to<br />
foster a culture of awareness,<br />
effective communication and respect<br />
among the MCW community<br />
by facilitating skill building<br />
workshops and encouraging a<br />
broadened definition, and deeper<br />
understanding/appreciation of<br />
diversity. Our vision is to create a<br />
Medical College of Wisconsin<br />
community where all individuals<br />
feel safe, respected, valued and<br />
empowered to promote social<br />
equity (diversity) and inclusion<br />
with values of humanity, integrity<br />
and respect. There are currently<br />
over thirty people on our Coalition<br />
Builders team and MCW has<br />
hosted three <strong>NCBI</strong> train-intrainers.<br />
Due to the value our leaders<br />
have placed on the <strong>NCBI</strong> program,<br />
it was decided to set intuitional<br />
goals for participation. The<br />
goal of MCW is to cultivate a<br />
campus culture that embraces,<br />
respects, honors, and recognizes<br />
the value of differences and inclusion<br />
in our pursuit to improve the<br />
health of our citizens.<br />
In 2015, our goal was the<br />
completion of <strong>NCBI</strong> training for<br />
any staff or faculty member hired<br />
on or before March 31, 2015 who<br />
functions in a leadership capacity.<br />
The Threshold goal was: 60%;<br />
Target: 70% and Stretch: 80%.<br />
Leadership definition: Supervise 2<br />
or more people or Hold a formal<br />
leadership role, for example: Director,<br />
Administrator or Executive<br />
Chief, Chairman or Dean. At<br />
the close of fiscal year 2015<br />
86.67% of campus leaders have<br />
completed the <strong>NCBI</strong> training,<br />
exceeding the stretch goal of 80%.<br />
Of the regularly scheduled workshops,<br />
576 participants attended<br />
18 workshops.<br />
In 2016, we aimed to complete<br />
of <strong>NCBI</strong> training for any staff<br />
or faculty member hired on or<br />
before March 31, 2016 who functions<br />
in a leadership capacity. The<br />
Threshold goal was: 80%; Target:<br />
90% and Stretch: 95%. Leadership<br />
definition: Supervise 2 or more<br />
people or Hold a formal leadership<br />
role, for example: Director,<br />
Administrator or Executive Chief,<br />
Chairman or Dean. At the close of<br />
fiscal year 2016 96.50% of campus<br />
leaders completed the <strong>NCBI</strong> training,<br />
exceeding the stretch goal of<br />
95%.<br />
The Coalition Builders team<br />
has offered full <strong>NCBI</strong> diversity<br />
workshops for Obstetrics & Gynecology,<br />
Neuropsychology and<br />
Anesthesiology Residency Programs,<br />
third year medical students<br />
and at a Midwest Association<br />
Graduate Admissions Conference.<br />
In addition, the team has led abbreviated<br />
workshop experiences<br />
for the departments of Physical<br />
Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatrics,<br />
Radiation Oncology, MCW<br />
S t u d e n t S u m m e r P r o g r a m s<br />
(Diversity Summer Health-related<br />
Research Education Program,<br />
Environmental Health Science<br />
Program, Apprenticeship in Medicine,<br />
Research Opportunity for<br />
Academic Development in Science,<br />
Project SEED, Summer Program<br />
for Undergraduate Research<br />
and Medical Student Summer Research<br />
Program) and DRIVE pipeline<br />
program.<br />
As of today, the team has led<br />
over 1,300 MCW faculty, staff and<br />
trainees in over 40 workshops,<br />
with overwhelmingly positive feedback.<br />
Ashley Hines<br />
Chief Diversity Officer<br />
MCW<br />
Partcipants at an <strong>NCBI</strong> Train-the-<br />
Trainer led by MCW staff<br />
“As of today, the team<br />
has led over 1,300<br />
MCW faculty, staff and<br />
trainees”<br />
“The goal of MCW is<br />
to cultivate a culture<br />
that embraces,<br />
respects, honors, and<br />
recognizes the value<br />
of differences and<br />
inclusion in our pursuit<br />
to improve the health<br />
of our citizens”