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How Can We Plant Seeds For The Future?
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Data proves that Initiative workshops successfully teach educators and family members how to foster acceptance in young children.
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The Initiative provides up to ten hours of training to Caregivers, Educators and Aides that can be done over two or three workshop sessions. The initial workshop(s) provides an understanding of the impact of prejudice in an early childhood setting and an introduction to the program resources. The three-hour follow-up educator workshop reunites the participants to reinforce and further develop anti-bias skills.
The Initiative provides a three-hour workshop for Adult Family Members that focuses on how family members/guardians are children's "first teachers" when it comes to developing a sense of identity and combating stereotypes and negative attitudes.
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Evaluation data shows that Initiative workshops significantly increased participants abilities to:
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Talk with children about bias and/or discrimination |
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Encourage children to reflect on their own biases and/or discriminatory behavior |
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Model techniques for children to use when they experience bias or discrimination |
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Intervene when teasing, name-calling and bias-related incidents occur in the program |
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Intervene when incidents of bias occur with family members |
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Intervene when incidents of bias occur with colleagues |
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