Resources from ComNet15 breakout session

1. Resources for learning more: “Let’s Talk About Race,” ComNet 2015
Annie E. Casey Foundation resources (www.aecf.org):
It’s Time to Talk: How to Start Conversations About Racial Inequities: A Race for Results Case Study This report
describes how KIDS COUNT grantees in Nebraska, Wisconsin and Washington used data, leadership and
citizen engagement to spur race-based legislation and community change.
Race Equity Action and Inclusion Guide: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion Within Your
Organization Learn a seven-step framework for adopting a race equity lens for social change.
Perception Institute resources (perception.org):
The Science of Equality Volume 1: Addressing Implicit Bias, Racial Anxiety, and Stereotype Threat in Healthcare
and Education This report summarizes key research on the interaction of key mind science phenomena in
creating racialized obstacles in important life domains and provides solutions for both institutions and individuals
to confront and reduce implicit bias, racial anxiety and stereotype threat.
Telling Our Own Story: The Role of Narrative in Racial Healing Narrative, as this report reveals, plays an
important role in both causing and ending discrimination.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation resource (wkkf.org):
Racial Equity Resource Guide. This comprehensive and interactive guide, created as part of WKKF’s America
Healing initiative, can connect you with practical resources including articles, organizations, research, books,
media strategies and training curricula aimed at helping organizations and individuals working to achieve racial
healing and equity in their communities.
FrameWorks Institute (frameworksinstitute.org) and Opportunity Agenda (opportunityagenda.org)
resources:
Talking About Disparities: The Effect of Frame Choices on Support for Race-Based Policies: A FrameWorks
Institute Message Brief This message brief provides a communications road map for advocates seeking to
garner support for policies that would prevent or remediate disparities.
Vision, Values and Voice: A Social Justice Communications Toolkit This Opportunity Agenda guide incorporates
opportunity messaging into sample language, outreach strategies and tips for working with creatives.
W. Haywood Burns Institute for Youth Justice and Equity resources (burnsinstitute.org):
What Happens When the Bargain of Civil Society is Breached? This document offers a framework to give context
to conversations dealing with structural racism in youth-serving systems.
Repairing the Breach: A Brief History of Youth of Color in the Justice System Bring an awareness of the history
of the youth justice system with this analysis through a racial equity lens.