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CAS WebinarsPrevention Action AlliancePrevention Action Alliance, 2020 Ohio Adult Allies Summit (2 of 2)Wednesday, December 02, 20201 -3:30 pm EST[ Please standby]>> Okay, if everyone is ready we can start with some housekeeping. Stop me Albert if you don't want to start yet. Welcome back everyone. I never put up my WebCam during the training. And is super weird for me and I don't like looking at myself.Welcome back everyone. Thank you for joining us again I hope you had a good lunch break, and you ate something delicious. Maybe you could stretch her legs. This is the trauma facing our youth with Albert Gay. In order to comply, CE's will be awarded based on your actual time in the session. If you can only do part of the time we will adjust. If you need to log out and log back in to fix a computer problem that will not be a problem or affect your CE's. You will only receive CEU's if you are logged into the session on a computer or tablet. If you are calling on the phone, we cannot track your attendance so we cannot avoid you continuing education.There will be an evaluation at the end of the day sent one hour after we end. It will be for the entire event. Please fill it out because it is necessary for your continuing education to be valid. Participation is very important. Make use of the chat box and ask questions. Use the raise your hand function and most importantly, enjoy yourself. Now I will pass it over to Evi.>> One last note, I know a lot of people have been popping up twice in the attendees that is because some people have to call in to use the audio from one device to the next. That is fine. If you sent your registration link to another person and they did not register, then we don't have their registration information that means we cannot link their participation with the actual login information, so they cannot receive CE's either.Before I forget, I wish -- I will push the record button, that way we can share what is going on.Thank you, guys, so much for coming back from lunch. I don't know about you, but I tried to give myself the same field. I tried to give my cat and I'll fill -- outfit. I guess I'm just going to have to start with the conversation with you guys. I am excited to introduce you to Albert Gay he is speaking on the racial trauma and justice with our youth. He is with a group with over 20 years’ experience in committee work be he also worked with the Indiana School of Public Health and research. Albert is noted for training organizations to enter a cultural practice within the organizational structure of the inequities. He teaches the transformative process of adopting the minority health organizations. Continuing in his journey he has become a trainer for interrupting racism for children workshops that were created for the state of Indiana. This is known for historical foundations for systemic powers we always try to make this a major asset of the work we do especially for this group. This year, it has a special significance so we appreciate you sharing what you know about the topic to help everyone.>> Absolutely. Thank you Evi. Thank you everyone. Evi you know I have to see the cap pictures at some point. I am sure I will love them.Good afternoon everyone. My pronouns are he, him and his beer I am honored to be before you. I want to thank those responsible for inviting me. I love Ohio and all of the leadership that says you may want to think about bringing Albert here and working with Tracy Johnson my mentor, my partner in prevention goodness. I want to thank all of those that I cannot see and the participants. Before I begin, I want to dedicate this presentation to those that we have lost prior to this time of covid due to injustice. I want to dedicate this to Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Treyvon Martin and all of the names we could fill up page after page. This is not a black People's problem this is an American problem. I am glad to be here to be with those who work with the youth. We don't have to think about the future of the future is upon us, we will delve into see how the future has made the pass keep up with us runs us down runs is over and how we keep experiencing the same outcomes over and over again. We will dig into that and talk about the unavoidable. And what that means. For those of you who are in the right place at the right time, I asked that we respect each other and keep each other in good harmony, cherish each other because we do not know with these uncertain times who is here today may not be here tomorrow. As I think about this, I like to think about the honoring of those I have lost this year just from covid-19 and violence. I have lost four family members within a two-week time span. Two of them I lost on the same day, while we were praying for the other one in the hospital., I am not the same as I was. I'd like to think there was a pre covid Al and a post covid, Al. And there was a pre-Breonna Taylor, Al and a post George Floyd, Al appear I want to talk to everyone because we have been shattered and shaken. Let's pull together as we dive into this topic.We will talk about avoiding and not avoiding. How many of you realize there have been avoidance's that have occurred over the years. Especially with this topic, race, racism and avoidance does not mean it is proactive we avoided. It can be things like it sounds good on the surface like we don't want to cause any trouble or shake the boat or rocket. It is not happening to me I am not racist; therefore we are good. I am not doing anything discriminatory. Because of that, maintaining of silence, there has been the continual outcomes that have been negative towards populations of color. We want to look at that. I want to go through what the agenda will look like. We are looking to gain awareness and the impact it has on youth. Here's an inside note. It is really happening on every level but because we do this we will talk about the impact on youth. I don't want us to escape into the youth are the future and put the pressure on changing the world system. How many of you have heard that. It doesn't have to be about race and racism it can be about poverty and we will say, you know what I look towards the future. I have news for you we are reaching across generational lines we will uncover racial bias. There have been plenty of opportunities for us to hear that word thrown around, bias and implicit bias and implicit bias training. We will talk about that and dig dealer now shrank deeper. I know we only have an hour, but we will try to get into discovery mode as fast as possible. Then we will place ourselves in the tolerance continual. How many of you are familiar with if you are part of something, continual means, you are invested whether you know it or not. You are part of something whether you believe it or not. So, there is a continual of tolerant that I want to bring up and we will have an opportunity to see where we are. We will also CL adults can help adults heal on the proactive side. What does that mean and what does it look like. We won't be able to delve into the deep Nuggets, it can actually be a time where we retreat with the youth to really get into the aspects of that but we will definitely give ourselves to it and I will supply some resources. That is what is coming up people. Are you excited? I know I am.These are one of my favorite topics. This has been on me since I realized I had a call for ministry. I could not shake it. I thought how does this job- then I saw just how things are when we talk about justice. We have to talk about the impact of racial injustice. I want to ask you guys a question. What did you see in 2020? I know, we are eager to get out of 2020. How many of you are ready to vacate this apartment, if it was an apartment, how many of you would have already given your notice to the landlord.? There we go., absolutely. What did you see while you weren't living inside of 2020? What did you see?Trauma everywhere, violence, chaos, fear. Look at these, the pendulum swinging. Hopelessness, separation, lies. Death, anxiety. Living in pain and separation. So much promise, way too people. Pain. I am seen a lot of pain and as Shelly put it a lot of loss and trauma and division. Finger-pointing. All of the finger-pointing. So, guess what. If we saw it, and I like the way Eddie said it. The trauma, you can definitely see positive as people's resilience kicks in. And sadness and growth to. We are seeing positives and negatives. In 2020. We saw a lot -- a lot of negatives that which we can see. What we see as adults, are what the children seek too. There was literally, what covid-19 did was allowed us to pause and look at what some as seen all of their lives and have lived through the experience of their mothers and fathers and their ancestors. This is not new. How many of you realize 100 years ago there was a pandemic. And they asked people to where masks. The hospitals were overrun. But it allowed us to slow down and see some underlying things that were occurring in communities of color whether Hispanic, Latin, Native American, and so many others. It allowed us to see some things. Here are some things that have been going on with our vision across the years. I really want us to look at this. Removal of indigenous from native lands. We often look at that historically from an adult perspective. But the children were there the whole time. Whether they were indigenous or those that were of the dominant culture. We saw children. We saw genocide. Check the children solid.How many of you have seen the pictures of lynching’s that occurred? Anybody? Does anyone realize they have seen lynching pictures. In the past, who came and showed up at the lynchings? Anybody? Both families did. Families in their Sunday best. It was called a show. They even had them as postcards. There are pictures of children right there as the bodies were burned. Victims were hung from trees and bridges. My aunt who passed this year, on her way to Tuskegee, Alabama on the train, she told me years ago, they saw a woman egging from a tree. What I didn't realize until this year, not only was it a woman she was pregnant. They hung pregnant women from trees. Who was writing those trains. Was it black people or was it everyone? So, I want to make this clear that children, the acts and the violence bestowed by adults are being seen by the children. Whether during the civil rights marches and which water hoses and dogs were released or a Rodney King beating during my years. The Oklahoma City bombing. We had school shootings we had 911. We had a hurricane Katrina. And yes, George Floyd. They were all witnessed by adults, and they were all witnessed by children. Every event. There is not a mass event that has occurred that children have not been exposed. So, what I want to ask. I want us to think deeply. When children were exposed to these acts of violence, how did we respond how do we respond as a community. How did we respond as a family, how did we respond as a parent and how do we respond in the schools as well as when we were children. Did anyone take us aside and tell us that what we were experiencing was traumatizing to us. When they were showing kids and kids solve the horrific acts of violence back in American's history, way back with indigenous and that next, did the children ever say you will need to recover from this or was it seen as acceptable, but it had an impact that people did not know. Let's fast-forward to when Tamir Rice was shot down with children is age watching. Older and younger. Did we have a conversation with those children about working through the trauma or did we merely think that because it's a group I could not believe it because George Floyd looked like my cousin. He looked just like him. And I love that Tracy is on the call I am traumatized but I know he was traumatized, and we think about the children because children watch that. Here is what is unique when we talk about this topic it does not stay contained and it's not only to the victim or to the victim's close relatives or to the victims racial or ethnic group or gender or any of the other characteristics. It is like water that hits and floods. So, when we were watching the children were watching. When we don't understand what is happening, we do not realize just how powerful it truly is. It took us a while to shake it. Then, what is that impact on children. I want to talk about this. What do these equal out to? All of the events equal trauma. So, for the most part I want to say that most individuals are resilient and do not develop posttraumatic stress syndrome or order. But there is a population depending if the youth or adult already have an ongoing mental illness or behavior problem. There are individuals who work in behavioral health. I want to describe to you, what that means and what the symptoms and the criteria means. So, it says you are exposed to an event that involves injury or violation, in addition these events were experienced in one or more of the following ways. Directly experiencing the event, or number two, witnessing the event as it occurred to someone else.Now, I want to ask you a question. During 202020, how many of us on this call witnessed an event, such as death or life-threatening that happened to someone else? If that is someone you know or if it is you, you don't have to raise your hand, but I think we all witnessed deaths and one was George Floyd, live, and then we heard vicariously of the others.Not only that, but we also heard of the young man that was running who got shot down. We saw that video. If we see it, who else sees it. Once again, we are linked in our vision. You learned about an event, you learned about an event where a close relative or friend experienced violence or accidental deaths or experiencing repeated exposure to details of an event such as a police officer repeatedly hearing details about child sexual abuse. Or, seeing it over and over again on social media. So, I want us to think about not only ourselves and the trauma we may have experienced as a but also, who else is experiencing it as a young person and are they vulnerable? Here is where we are going with that. What we are experiencing is called central is the psychological reaction e-mail it affects and he is under this category. We are global witnessing not only American but a global witnessing of this which was similar to the lynchings in the past.Collective trauma surpasses because it lives within multiple survivors that can pass to other persons. You can pass it on to others.When I imagined my aunt who on her way to Tuskegee University with her bright, built -- brilliant self she had to watch a pregnant woman strung up in a tree. She is telling me this years later and now I remember it and I keep remembering it. That is how collective trauma passes on. It is not having boundaries. Just because our children go to school. Just because teenagers go into extracurricular activities, they are safe. If they are witnessing it, it is affecting them. Whether we realize it or not. I want to bring this to our attention. Here is what is funny. It does not matter whether we believe George Floyd was the biggest criminal on the planet and deserved to die as some have said. It does not matter. We witnessed a traumatic event of a murder of an individual without a trial, without a jury. We don't process that the way the explicit side of our brain does. Although he was guilty, we see the trauma and that feeds back to us. We have to think about what other traumas we have been experiencing. Collective trauma falls into these things. Police brutality, war and mass shootings. Not shootings. How many times have children been exposed to mass shootings? So, whether we are hearing about it in a well publicized case like any that happened in Florida, or, we heard about it on the streets. Those still have an impact. We are looking at collective impact and collective trauma that is continuing along generations. Here is why we should be concerned. You think collective trauma says this. It is more impactful on the teams and that you because they have not developed the coping mechanisms yet. They look adult, many of you work with youth groups and the youth leaders looked grown they are 6'5". Some of them are brilliant as all outdoors. May be even smarter than you but you may not admitted but that is okay. Even with all of that, the developmental stage they are in, dictates they biologically and psychologically do not have coping mechanisms yet. Even though, they may be individuals that seem to have it all and on the up and up, they are still dealing with things they are not physically or mentally capable of dealing with. They are more likely to turn to self harm, or drugs to cope because of those missing portions of the coping mechanisms.How many of you are familiar with the bystander effect? We have been taught over the years to think about the bully and the victim. But there are other victims and the other victims are the bystanders. So bystanders are those that are watching traumatizing events occur, and yet even though they are not being victimized, it generates toxic stress it causes their blood pressure to rise, their nervous system, then they begin to have an experience but things that are just as traumatizing as if they had been hit and delete themselves.They did a study on rats. How many of you have heard studies on mice and rats? Anyone? Lori is with me. Brenda? They did a study on some rats. They wanted to see this effect and how it played out.They put a rat next to another rat that was going to be exposed to some trauma. They watched closely, what the impact would be on the witness rat. What they called the witness rat. The witness rat experiences the same level of trauma, that the rat who experienced the biological trauma. Tete what does that tell us, widely studied rats? They do it because rats have a brain like humans. They have a psychology like humans. They often use them to see what would happen to us as humans given the same circumstances. What is that causing? It causes anxiety, uncertainty, fear, and therefore because they are witness, they are experiencing many things that the soldiers experience in wartime which is survival guilt. The how did I survive. They either blame themselves and that turns inward and can become a depressive episodeIt can last well beyond childhood. I want you to keep that in your mind, witnessing together a trauma. Learning the problem. Including more things where they begin to behave as the problem they are witnessing. There is an increase in welfare I want us to remember that. There is an uptick in the juvenile justice system when children experience trauma. Some of you all may have heard this. Those who have attended any training. We need to stop asking individuals what is wrong and say what happened. It is only then that we realize we are punishing victims of trauma. We are punishing victims of trauma. We are kicking them out. We are calling the police and getting them arrested. We are saying, there is something wrong they are rotten apples as if there's no redemption. They are learning this lesson that this leads to them getting into the juvenile justice system we are sending a terrible message of hope to the youth. We are sending them into darkness.Trauma is a risk factor for all behavioral health problems including substance abuse. I know many of you are here because you do substance abuse prevention. What we want to now focus on is what we can do, I'm going to change this, what strategies can we do for healing? So, after children experience trauma including us, here are six things we can do. Those of you who are working, your youth have already been exposed to this collective trauma. They have already been exposed. Here is how, if they have not begun, here is how you can help. Help them to create a routine. Help them limit exposure to social media. Social media will run rapid with the imagery.We already mentioned they are not cognitively develop and they need a buffer system. We can help them limit that exposure. We want to provide emotional support. What do we mean by emotional support? With those who identify with the male gender, there is a stigma. What is a stigma that we teach our young gender males to have as an attribute? What is that? Someone type that in? Boys don't cry. Be hard. Be tough. Chin up and deal with it. Be the rock. You guys answer that immediately. You did it because, it is something we have been socialized into. That is put into us and the extra pressure does not provide support.It teaches the young individuals that you can never be yourself when dealing with trauma. You keep it to yourself and guess what, does trauma go away, note it converts. It converts into depression. It converts into PTSD, anxiety, which we think of as anger. But it is not anger. Why are boys so angry all of the time. Many of those we labeled as thugs, are actually traumatized youth. Traumatized. They have been taught the only way they know that no one is here. We want to encourage things like journaling and exercise. That helps to build the routine. They are not angry. Angry is something we attribute to it. They are actually hurting. We want to encourage journaling, exercising, getting them into a routine. We do something here with the young adult which is meditation in the inner cities. First, they laughed, then when they do it, they realized the immediate benefit. Knowing when to seek professional help should be on the list.What is racial bias and how does that play into this? Racial bias is defined as attitude of stereotypes that affect our understanding, decision in an unconscious manner. We refer to this as implicit bias.We want to go deeper and talk about what that implicit bias means. I have a video coming up. I will run through these briefly. Some of you know this but we will look at it in context. Implicit bias is what everyone possesses. There is no need to judge yourself negatively because we all drink from the same water stream that has bias. We will talk about where that comes from. They are related but they are constructs. They are totally independent of each other. They can be independent and operate without the other being a factor.We hold implicit bias that favors our own anger and the one thing to note which is always to bring hope. The biases are valuable. They can be change. Once we realize and acknowledge them, and work intentionally, intentionally, to change them to reverse what we have soaked up being in the atmosphere.We will talk about that and I want to split it into two groups. Explicit bias is with full conscious awareness, we often think of those individuals that explicitly show their bias in favor of or against as prejudice. They simplify it, they know it, they own it. I don't like country music. I explicitly say that. If ice explicitly saying I am conscious of it. But I may have been implicit bias that I am not consciously aware of. These things are expressed indirectly. Let's look at that.Explicit bias would be signing in the window of an apartment. When I say back in the day I want to talk about 40 years ago, signs that said whites only. Or back in the 60s. I want to say 60 years. I'm not doing math right now. That was an explicit example. People expressing their disdain for a particular group or people or a person.It is more on the subconscious. A property manager doing more criminal background checks on Blacks than whites. That is implicit. So, it is not unassigned, because that is illegal now. However, you can still have the same outcomes of not having certain groups enter into your properties based on what you do subconsciously like doing multiple background checks.I want to say if you are explicit and it is intentional, your implicit is automatic and you get the outcome when you are under duress and pressure. It is often so automatic that, you don't realize you are doing it.Anybody ever drives home and don't realize how you got there. You pulled up, you are in front of your house and you think, I don't remember going down certain streets. That is because it is so ingrained in you, it is running on your subconscious. However, when you first started to drive you remember everything. You were very intentional. So, let's take a look at this. Let's take a look. How harmful implicit can be. This is where we get the continual outcomes that are harmful and negative for populations of color.People will internalize stereotypes. This unconscious bias will develop an elementary school and it can influence the teacher and student relationships. With that, I want to talk to you about a study real fast. This was through the Yale Child study Center. This study, there is a video. Brittany do you want to play this short video? If not, I can just talk about it.>> I can play it. Do you want me too do it right now? Sanchez.>> I just have to switch over to presenter it so everyone can see my screen.>> Okay.>> A new study of the Yale Child study Center. I had to read it a few times. Researchers recruited 135 preschool teachers they watch videos of four kids. A black boy, black girl, a white boy at Waco. They told the teachers their subjects. Watch the video there may be some challenging behaviors. As soon as you see something that could become challenging enter the enter key on your behavior. The researchers were using I scan technology to see which child the teachers were looking at the most. What they found is that the teachers both white and black alike spent the most time watching the black boy. Waiting for bad behavior that never came. This is one more interesting headline. The teachers were also given a one paragraph description to read, a hypothetical child with a stereotypical name that behaved badly in class. Some of the teachers were also given some background information that help to make sense of the behavior. They were told that the child lived with his mother, the father has been In-and-Out for years, they were relatively poor, the mother is depressed and worked three jobs. Researchers want to know if knowing this information mode made the teachers more empathetic. Here is the shock. It did, but only if the teacher and the child were of the same rates. If the teacher and the child, white teacher black child or even a black teacher and white child, knowing that biographical information, the teachers were less empathetic towards the students.Here's why this matter. Imagine, if this is true, there is empathy deficit, imagine where else this is true.>> Thank you for that, Brittany. Because it will come up shortly for the other one. If you will put up your slides, I will just guide you through those.So let's pause right there at that question. That was a good question. If it happens in preschool, that they were expelling like boys at an accelerated rate, than others and they weren't looking and watching black boys the most, that is in preschool, when people are at their most Apple -- most absolute dear, where is is bias showing up. The reason we are talking about that is, we have to address the unavoidable. The unavoidable is, why is it that Blacks are being shot in the streets or killed for violations that have absolutely no death sentence on them? Why is that occurring and why is it so much more with Blacks and people of color than with white counterparts correct so, unless we understand bias, then we won't get the concrete answer to tell our youth. Here is why that is important. Consciously, these preschool teachers are going in with the best intentions. Conscious. That is what's important. Explicitly, they are in the mission statement which is to teach all children regardless of race or gender to have outcomes that are to the state standards. That sounds lovely. That is right on. Consciously they believe that. It is subconsciously where they are on autopilot. Just like you arrive at your house not knowing what street you have passed. Operating subconsciously they are going the exact opposite of their mission statement. Those 135 preschool teachers were all shocked that they were watching the black boy the most. They did not realize it. They were so on autopilot, so if it happened in preschool, then we know it is happening in every other profession. Whether law enforcement or prevention. Wait on empirical or mental health. Or, healthcare. Or business. Or banking. It is happening everywhere. So if we go to the next slide, why do the youth need to know about the history of race and racism. This is not a topic we can avoid. This is why I say this. Black families, and most families of color will talk to their children about race and racism because it impacts them detrimentally and it is about survivor mode. They say if you get pulled over do this. If you're walking down the street do this or that. But sometimes, if you are not race conscious, you do not think about it and we leave it up to school systems to talk about it during history class. As though they will extract all of the things that tied into bias from a history lesson and we know that is not occurring. Especially now since they are sanitizing the schoolbooks, so they are not mentioning the term slavery. They are calling it the transatlantic trade route without using the word slavery. So, if we don't understand this, I work children will continue along a path because they can develop implicit bias at an early age and they can pass those tendencies on so that we keep getting the same outcomes whether preschool or K-12 or college or business sector or criminal justice, the outcomes will tend to be the same. Anti- black and populations of color versus Pro or for white or with more favorable outcomes. Let's go to our next slide. This is one of the things I want you to see. We will play two videos. If children don't understand bias and how it gets in and how bias is in them, they will not understand how they are contributing to the races systems that are occurring in our times. If you will play the first two that will be great.>> There are lots of different colors for skin.>> I have questions for you. After I read the question, I want you to point to the picture that fits the story.>> Our children colorblind in America. Potentially the smart child? Show me the mean child. Can you show me the dumb child. Show me the nice child.>> Is bias measurable at an early age.>> Why is he the ugly child.>> Why is he the dumb child?>> Because she has dark brown skin.>> Why she the bad child.>> Because of her skin color.>> How much do kids learn from what they see and hear from adults.>> Showed me the skin color adults like quicksand show me the child the skin color adults don't like quicksand these are questions we and CNN and psychologist spent months investigating with children and their parents. They are questions that have been asked for decades. The first doll ignited controversy in the 40s when a psychologist pioneered studies and the effects of segregation in schools by asking black kids to choose between black-and-white dolls. The so-called adulteress black kids preferred white over black. Those results centered the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown versus the Board of Education that desegregated American schools.Now with the first black president and nearly 60 years after segregation was overturned, we wondered where we are today. Do the kids see differences in race. What we discovered may shock you. But first, how do we get there.>> The child's skin color.>> We asked a child psychologist and researcher, Dr. Margaret Spencer to develop a pilot study for CNN and analyze the results.>> The children are always near us. We are a society. What we put out there kids report back. You asked the question they will give you the answer.>> The team tested more than 130 students with different racial and economic demographics. Cap in the north half of the South.>> The country is much more diverse than the 40s, but the children are from two different age groups and two races, white and black. They compared it to the original dull study. Four out of five children were asked questions about the images. Nine and ten -year-olds were asked about the same images as well as this color chart. The tent us live up to three major findings. First, white children responded with a high rate of what researchers called white bias. Identifying the color of their own skin with positive attributes and darker skin with negative attributes. tangibly the dumb child?>> Dumb child?>> Why she the dumb child?>> Because she has black skin.>> Show me the mean child?>> Wising the mean child?>> Because he is brown. Tangibly the bad child. Wising the bad child?>> Because he is black.>> Show me the ugly child. Why is he ugly?>> Because he is black.>> Show me the child with the skin color most adults like? And show me the child most adults don't like? Show me the child that most children like? Show me the child who has the skin color most children don't like? Show me the child who has the skin color most girls want? Show me the child who has the skin color most girls don't want.>> The questions I got white bias answers. Tangibly the dumb child.>> 76% pointed to the two darkest skin tones.>> Shall be the mean child.>> Is 66% of the younger white children pointed to the two darkest skin tones.>> Show me the child who has the skin tone most children don't like. 1066% of the younger white children pointed to the two darkest skin tones potential me the bad child.>> More than 59% of the older white children pointed to the two darkest skin tones. But some white kids did have more neutral responses.>> Can you show me the good-looking child.>> What are you thinking I know you pointed to the mobility thinking?>> I'm thinking I don't care about their race. I think it matters who they are>> Write a letter to Santa and thank him for his work.>> Think you. -- thank you.>> Show me the smart child. Why is she the smart child?>> Because she looks like me.>> Show me the mean child. Why is she the mean child?>> Because she is way darker.>> Shall meet the good child. Why is she the good child?>> Because I think she looks like me.>> Show me the bad child. Why is she the bad child?>> Because she is a lot darker. potential me the ugly child. Why is she ugly?>> Because she is a lot darker.>> When you think? Is this shocking to you?>> I think it is because she is not exposed.>> You are almost in tears, why? I didn't mean to upset you. What is upsetting?>> It's not really upsetting. I mean, everything she said she chose someone like her because all of the things that look like her.>> All of the healthy attributes.>> The one she chose for being ugly, you can't even see facial features. She has never been asked about color. When she plays with friends, when we were talking about going to soccer where there are different kinds of people, that is when she chose the dark one. I think that was an eye-opener because we have never really talked about race. So we talked a long time about it.>> Thank you. Alright. We will return to the slides. I really love your comments that are posting in here. There is another video that we don't have time to show but the next video shows black children's responses and they are only slightly different. Still, the overwhelming good attributes were attributed to the lighter skin, and the worst attributes, ugly, stupid, bad mirrored what white children were answering and attributing it to darker skin.The same messages coming out. Here is the thing. That mother was surprised just as the preschool teachers were surprised because something is transpiring without them even talking about race. Here is where we are getting to the crux about bias. Bias is absorbed in the environment. Children from ages 0-7 are in a beta phase. That means they are almost in a hypnotic state that is why they accelerate in learning. They are picking up language. They are picking up the bad words you may have said only once. Somehow, they know it and they can bring that word back at the most inopportune time and it is because that phase is not just picking up on explicit, it is picking up on implicit.These children, here is what is shocking. I really want us to get this. These children, black-and-white are mirroring the exact same test that happened in 1954. Were they born in 1954? This test is from 2010.Next line please. Here is what I want us to understand. How do we introduce bias to talk with our youth. If we are like the mother, who does not bring of race and racism and trying to teach not to look at color and all of those things and her babies still came up, she still came up with racial prejudice, and the results are the same. And without being proactive, to disrupt it, what do kids grow up to be? Every profession on the planet. They will mirror, if they never talk about bias and understand their own implicit bias they will carry it forward into their careers, college, their families without explicitly acknowledging that there is a race issue.Wood breeds the condition that breeds bias, it is that people fail to get along because they fear each other, they fear each other because they don't know each other, they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other. That has been the purposeful segregation that was legal from the -- before the inception of the United States all the way to the civil rights movement in the 60s. That is how long we have practice legal segregation which is separation. During that time, the breeding means that Blacks worldwide, evil, negative, dirty, violent criminals versus Whites which were positive, good, aspiring, beautiful citizens.Next line. There is one way out of bias. Negative bias about race. That is to do the reverse of what dr. King said and the reason for the segregation. The one way out for you as a result and that youth is they have to be in contact with the group in which the bias exists.I don't mean one time, I mean, an actual get together intentionally for the purposes of knowing. If you do not, they will give the exact same answers. How many of us are allies with our youth? If we are allies and we do not want our youths to repeat the patterns of the past, and some of you were born between 1954-2010, if we had taken that test when we were 3-4-years-old we would have given status quo answers which were the majority of what we see. That has not changed. The only way to counter that is there must be a mutual coming together with the groups spending actual time together. They must follow these six things. There must be mutual independence, common goal, equal status and power, friendly and informal environment, and they must learn that members they come to know our typical of their group and the social norms that promote or support equality amongst groups are operating in that situation.In other words they have to eat together they have to read together they have to bond and live so it begins to interrupt that which they absorb. How old were the babies? 4-5-years-old. They had already absorbed the racial bias.The only way to interrupt that is through actuality. I want to ask a question. This will hit home and I am glad. How many of you live around people of color? You are, and hopefully you are within the group not the majority. There are plenty of people of color around you.For the first part, here is what you need to know. The reason why most of the neighbors are segregated is because it was intentional.It was on purpose. If we don't understand that, we do not understand out there could be a George Floyd and breonna taylor. Redlining. If we don't teach our children the impact of redlining, why the white schools do better, more resources versus schools where minorities live, then we will continue to feed into the black or darker skin, are inept. They are not as intelligent, and they are in the positions because they are lazy. We know from redlining that it was big government, big banking and industries that combine forces to force separation of races. It is not natural that we are segregated.So, we have to protect and prepare our youth. In order to protect and prepare we have to educate ourselves. We have to limit exposure to graphic media. We have to be open about racism. We can't be like the mother was said, we don't talk about race or racism, I don't know why she says these things about the darker skin colors. She was shocked. Children are learning outside of the home, on social media, inside of the homes, whether you realize it or not. So we have to listen to the youth and explain the history of institutions. Jim Crow and the history. Banking, the G.I. Bill and redlining and the impact it has had.>> So, now we begin to talk about, antiracism strategies. We will start to evaluate some locations. We will establish what is races and what is not races. We will educate and explain and speak up when necessary. Give voice to the normally discriminated against and become antiracist ally through action. We will begin with ourselves. We will take the tool and practice that we can share with the youth, cultural humility. The number one step is learning about ourselves. What is my role. Also part of step one is learning to listen to the focus population. Those that have a bias against in order to understand. Understand this is a journey. Step two is challenge of power of the systems that are inequitable. That are normally against populations of color and they only have a few if any that are in charge. And step three, partner in ally.Let's take a closer look at the first steps. Next slide please. Number one. How many of you can take your own implicit bias test. All right, good. How many of you discovered, I did not realize I had a bias against or for a particular group.I know a lady who is a female professional and she goes by female, and she was shocked that she had a bias against women in business and leadership. Even though she is a woman in leadership.I can say as a black man I have a bias against black like the little kids. Because I grew up with the same messaging and somehow it filtered into my unconscious. My conscious is very program but I can be anti- black subliminally. Even encountering people look like me. You may want to take the Harvard test it is free. You will be shocked.If you take a guess who else should take it. The youth that you work with if they will be ally. Know yourself. What are your own values and norms and symbols and practices. Start there with you. When you gain an appreciation for where you come from and how your values form, you will understand and value those whom you are not in the same cultural group.Think about this, all of those in prevention. What are your code of ethics. In prevention we have an obligation, a service to do no harm. When we see harm being done by institutions we have an obligation to see that it is reduced to the populations of color. By practicing nondiscrimination and holding other institutions accountable.So, there are all kinds of self assessments you can take. This is one of them. You will have that on your PDF.>> If someone can go unmute because we can hear your conversation, thank you. I appreciate that.Those are some of the things, I would like for us to pause for a second period we will talk about inclusion on the continuum. We want to know where you fall on this continuum. So, there should be more things that show up on my end but okay, there they are. You can bring them all of.When you look at this inclusion continuum, where do you fall right now because location is important. Are you at an intolerance level, this is all about valuing. Yeah I can tolerate them. Are you at in awareness, you are just becoming woke to what is going on out here with injustice. Are you at an understanding level or a valuing level where you greatly appreciate it and you hold it in high esteem, other cultures and other ways of life. Could you please type it into the chat where you are. And this is a no judgment zone.Bias seat into our system without us even paying attention. Awareness is the first way to come out of it and realizing you can be in ally. I see people saying they understand. Even if you say you were at tolerance I would say, good, that acknowledgment is good. If you are an intolerance I would say good because you are at the first step of understanding where you are and being honest. Thank you for that.Valuing as to do with holding for equity. Equity in this system means you are looking for outcomes. If you really value others as you value yourself you want there to be positive outcomes for them as well. This is not welfare. This is engaging in systems where people are paying and still coming out with poor outcomes where the systems are bias against them. What we are trying to do is say we have to weed out bias. We have to weed out the bias that is pro- white and anti- Blackbeard put it into a Connex where we value people at a same equitable level so they are getting outcomes that we are looking to have. Next line. I apologize I know on the little over. So we want to practice inclusion and I will go through these fast. We want to practice inclusion that means we are bringing stakeholders from different groups, we are bringing their worth and value to the table and not showing up as tokens. Only being used as a front to say, we have a population of color or a gender group that is.Here are the ways we can help our youth. We want to have them encouraged and inclusive behaviors. Appreciate, affirm, advocate, sponsor, develop, stretch with their understanding. Even when conversations get uncomfortable. Mentor them and train them. We want them to coach and get feedback. We want to encourage and challenge. Of course, practice diversity. This is something that you can answer with your own coalition or your own group of ally ship that you have with your group.We want to go from a transactional model where we are doing a bunch of checkouts to say bias is bad, and let's work on diversity where we are transforming, where we are allowing diversity at the table to not be just year, -- just there but to be in charge. That is something that has not traditionally occurred in the norm cultural world as it relates to systems and institutions.How can you support diversity, you want to drive positive change want to be the spokesperson and encourage the youth to drive change and be someone that communicates and educates around diversity, especially a place of understanding of where they are in their own bias which we all acknowledge that we have.We like to say this, there is two routes. There is an organization. You can be an organization that improves and encourages diversity, equity and inclusion and leadership at the top, transformative or you can be an organization that rearranges the DE I angles to the IE which is basically delivering outcomes that are still harmful to the populations of color.We never want to be someone that fights the data. When the data shows that there are differences of outcomes between the normal white culture and those that have populations of color, then it is our duty to respond and make the changes to allow that to change. That happens with diversity, and inclusion.In conclusion we want to diversify, we want to remember this is a process that is ongoing. Be open minded and open spirited.Here is what is next. You have a click and another click. We have a toolkit. We have how to talk to youth about what is going on. This was dedicated to trave on Martin. There's another one that we have addressing race in the classroom. You want to build this with leadership as well as yourself, and the youth you are serving.The final slide. Those of you who are familiar with SPF, that is not afraid to talk about addressing the unavoidable. Trauma and racial injustice that has occurred. Everything we have discussed we can do and collect data on and run it through the SPF, the same process will work to create an equitable environment.With that, I want to thank you all for hanging in there with me. Not afraid. An extra 5 minutes or so. I wanted to get the videos in. If we were in person, we would have gotten into some really great groups and conversations. I am hoping that you were able to grasp the seriousness of how bias is already in the babies by age 3-4. It's not because it is explicitly being taught. It is coming through the environment that we have in the community spirit the messages the same. If we will address it so the next police officers that were once toddlers, if we began to train the youth now about the bias that is inherent in all of us, they will start to make corrections along with us as well. I want to thank you for being on here and the serious conversation. I love that you are all willing to participate and transfer this to the youth you work with.Thank you everyone. Thank you everyone I appreciate you and the participants.>> Thank you so much. We appreciate you coming today and having this conversation. I am sure we will get to see you in person eventually. That is one more thing I will have to add to my list.For the rest of you I will see you in a few minutes. We will give you a few minutes to use the restroom, refresher feed. I will see you back at 2:35 p.m. 2:35 p.m. we will finish this up. See you in a little bit.>> Thank you everyone. Thank you, Brittany, for handling the video and the rest of the slides.>> Thank you, Albert.>> Thank you, take care everyone.>> By Jodi.>> Hello, welcome back for the final session of the summit. This is the afternoon panel moderated by Evi Roberts. A final reminder, I know you are tired of hearing this but to comply, the CE youth will be awarded based on your actual time. If you can only attend part of it your CE use will be adjusted. It will not affect your CE spirit you will only receive them if you are logged onto a computer. If you called and we cannot track your attendance so we cannot give you CE spirit you will get an evaluation at the end of the day. It will be in an e-mail, one hour after this is over. Then, you can fill it out. It is the only way we can improve and get better. And certificates will be e-mailed to you, 30 days after today's summit.>> Please remember it is interactive. So, please take part and participate, make use of the chat box.>> Thank you so much Brittany. This will be conversation base period will you move the slide so we can have the web cameras go across.>> I can hear an echo also a few people may need to youth themselves.>> Had why sound now corrects>> You sound like an echo like in a cave.>> Brittany, can you check to see if we can you everyone.>> Okay.>> Thank you all for joining us. We are still recording from the last session. I will let that keep going. We all have the pleasure of hearing from two amazing speakers, Dr. Chris Hulleman and Albert Gay. We also have panelists that will share their reflection on the two presentations and to help other adult allies with the programs.As we speak to one another I encourage everyone in the audience to type your own responses in the chat box. Just like the youth, we often learn best from our peers. We would ordinarily have the conversations in small groups, today we will have the panel and do the best we can. I certainly want to encourage everyone to submit questions and comments in the chat box.Today I have for leaders who have volunteered to sit on the panel. They are from different parts of the state and they are all supportive. We hope after today's panel you will be inspired to reach out to them as well as other leaders for additional support.To start out with like each panelist to introduce themselves. This is for anyone who wants to start.>> I will jump in. So I am Sean Jeffers, I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. This morning when you did the map with Chris if you did any of the counties down in Southwest Ohio, I would love to have you join us for our conversation we will be having this year. Karen, I will pass it to you.>> Can you hear me?>> There's a lot of feedback.[ Static ]>> If you have a cell phone you can call in too.>> Hello I am Beth Thomas, I serve in Northwest Ohio. With adult allies. We don't always have a lot of participants but we would love to have you. And since we are virtual you don't have to be there to join us. I will hand it off to Kevin.>> Hello everyone I'm Kevin. I write -- artwork right here in Columbus, Ohio, along with my supervisor. We'd lead up the central region we call it the central connection so anyone interested in being part of that, please check it out. Check out what we do, and I hope to connect with you all.>> Thank you.>> It is better so maybe if you sold out your speech that may make it worthwhile.>> I will also turn off my video which seems to help your current character I am from Northeast, Ohio. I represent the collaborative. I cannot wait to talk to you.>> Thank you so much, Karen.>> My name is Evi Roberts. I hope I saw everyone this morning. If you are just joining us on the youth web coordinator. I have the pleasure of working with the Ohio prevention network, the allies and more. It is exciting because the place is a major opportunity for me to learn from those around meat such as the leaders. We have a small contingent of them represented on the webinar today. I am grateful to have the opportunity to watch and listen I'm sure I will get as much out of the panel as everyone else.To warm everyone else, Dr. Chris Hulleman talked about engaging. So, I am curious, what are some things that came to mind on what you do this work in the first place?>> The one thing I work with and wrote down, it comes down to respecting the youth. No one ever asked them their perspective and what they think. I didn't realize this was a framework.>> Thank you so much, Karen.>> I agree with Karen. I have a love for young people. And appreciation for what they share. I get more out of working with them than they do working with me.>> I will tell Beth that is untrue because like a lot of you, I work with young people because I know what working with adults did when I was young. I know working alongside these people, I am providing them a connection to adults that they may or may not have. At least it is an additional barrier that makes me want to do my job at a higher level because I know I am impacting them in the future as well.>> Mind is similar, just around recognizing there were adults who were supportive and situations where I didn't feel like I could bring my full self. I wanted to see what they could contribute.>> A lot of people can he wanted to know which mindsets correlated with UN challenges you have with adults. I will remind everyone that the three mindsets are growth, purpose and a sense of well the spirit you can also put your answers in the chat. Out of those three mindsets, what most resonated with you with challenges working with young adults?>> I will say before everyone else, especially Sean. I assume he wants to talk about this one too. Definitely a sense of belonging. As a young person, and as an adult, working with these children we don't get anywhere until the young people feel like they are connected to us and our program. We can't move forward in any aspect of our programming until they feel safe and valued, until they feel part of what we are doing. This is for us to even get to the ideas and thoughts. Just the idea that they feel part of something and they belong. That is just top-notch.>> The presentation this afternoon was looking at trauma and a lot of times when dealing with trouble young people it requires resilience and resiliency factors comes into our work. There is a bit of tension that has to play out when engaging in the two factors. It's not really the sense of belonging, then sometimes you don't get the opportunity to work with young people long term to invest in the ways we can provide support and guidance. I think that is important. So when I look at the GPS model when I was taking notes, I think this is in the low to get to a point where we can engage with young people to get their growth mindset and potential.>> I really appreciate that. I will say, you have a lot of agreements in the chat box.>> I agree with you guys and it made me think when we were talking about what brought us to this work and creating a safe space and what we are doing as adult allies to make sure safe space exist so people can have a sense of belonging, I know, I am no longer directly involved in the day-to-day operations but we have struggled to attract youth to the group that represent the community. It makes me think about the sense of belonging and what can we do as allies to make sure we are inclusive in not only getting them to the table but retaining them once they have arrived. I would love to hear some of the other thoughts on how that has been successful for others.>> Karen -->> I was not sure if you could hear me. I think just bringing it to the table is a challenge. But the importance of creating a sense of belonging that they have is huge. But the original question is, I think it is a challenge.[ Indiscernible by captioner ]>> When they were talking about trauma, this led us to if they are impacted by any trauma they can get over it. We have to treat them skills -- track teach them skills and strategies that they don't know. This teaches them skills. Finally, this is part of the process.[ Static ]>> I think you are allowing them to be vulnerable when you talk about failure. Sometimes we don't want to admit that the young people are doing as well as we want them to. There is a real tension with that with covid. They are struggling but we still have expectations we are supposed to meet. Being able to balance that with the support and what we need to offer young people so they have a place to grow can be difficult.And want to echo what I heard in the comments. Some are struggling with purpose and relevance. Some of my goat people have reported, that our work doesn't seem as relevant as it did in February because, what does a social media pose here or potential activities we have planned being for a world that is reckoning with a pandemic and the second coming of the civil rights movement.Last year at this time we got into it. They were working on a toolkit. Then covid hit. I completely understand. That is something that I have seen some adult allies struggling with. Trying to figure out the role we have to play in building purpose and the young people that join us in the programs. We can eat -- either recruit young people who are busy and passionate about the work or we can have a Big Ten approach and welcome anyone and show them how the work is relevant. I am curious, how do you balance this with regard to recruiting young people?>> I think that is a good question. We have to be vulnerable adult allies and give ourselves grace period we may not be able to meet the expectations for the groups because of the pandemic and focus shifted elsewhere. That is a key piece. I think we need to think about what is relevant to the young people. For our group this year they shifted to mental wellness. That was a more relevant issue to them. Allowing them, if you're funding Liles to figure out where the balances. You may need to ship where young people find it purposeful at this time? Right.>> I agree one 100%. And I think because of the sense of wanting to belong everybody wants it. This goes back to our work deliverables and striving for success. Right now we discussed because the group decided they wanted to do something for their peers. They loved it. They were so energized.[ Static ]it made them feel welcome and comfortable.>> I appreciate the flexibility, as we heard. I heard them talk about this a few weeks ago. The things we think are working. We have a plan with the young people who were in attendance. Then things fall apart. That is the flexibility at this time. It will sometimes be needed on the flight to do something that brings young people back.>> I will interject. It is hard to understand you Karen because of your audio issues. If you have a headset that has a microphone, or something with your phone that may help. Or if you could just speak even slower, but may help your a couple of people said, they are only getting every third word. It is cutting In-and-Out.>> Thank you. I wonder if you could put your responses and the chat and we could respond that way.>> Should we move onto the next question or do we have any questions?>> In Cincinnati there is an event we do every year. It started in the city of Cincinnati. It started at City Hall and called the city of Cincinnati's youth commission summit. So, in the first two years it was run out of City Hall then we organized it. Then people said it sounded like a name adult came up with. So, we started asking young people what they wanted to call in and they said young not silent. So, every year when we do the event we surveyed young people and we asked them to give a list of issues and the things they are passionate about and finding outlets to respond. So maybe doing workshops or, being facilitators. So I want to put it in the chat. I think the relevance helps people understand why I am here. Once they are included and feel like they have a voice, those two things go hand-in-hand. I think it is important to say how we are creating a space. Sometimes as adults, our choices are limited. We have to find ways we don't limit choices and opportunities because of funding but how we can be created to help young people pursue the things they are most passionate about.>> Thank you. It is incredible how you can rely on tried and true methods. They have to show that they will show the things they are already interested in.>> Another question, he wanted to know what is a revelation of mindset?>> I think one of the big things that stood out, was right away he said something to the extent of, that we are the bridge, I see that to be so true especially when talking about youth programs and allies. A lot of times we can get into a mode or say this is youthful and that youth need to do this and they need to recruit and they need to do a lot of stuff. All of what we heard today, none of that falls on the young people. We are the bridge. There's so much for us to do that create spaces like this. There's so much with the adult allies and being an adult ally. There's so much that falls on us to create spaces and be the bridge for young people to start their learning and growth. I think this is something that stood out to me. There is so much work we have to put in that maybe does not show up on the spreadsheet.>> Great. Something that I thought about, there is a song called the room where it happened and Thomas Jefferson talks about how he picks a venue. But he's not the main person in the conversation. He create conditions for the conversation to take place. Not that I ever want to do that, but that is essentially the person that is creating the conditions. Thank you Kevin.>> I love that. It makes me think for myself, I am goal oriented. I have a list of things. It reminded me thought processes twice as important as the outcome and along the same lines, the expectations follow the framework that we get in our head that we have to go through a checklist. He reminded me again that it is very much about the process and we need time for young people to reflect so learning takes place during the reflection and not just doing the hands-on engaging but being in the space to really reflect so this simmers inside of their brain. That really stuck out for me today.>> There was a piece that, where he said, it was about belonging. Just because you had a great session last time, that doesn't mean it will automatically continue. I think sometimes as adults we think since it was a good session we can just move forward. But sometimes when people show up or there are different people in the spaces, it was a reminder that when we find ways to bring people back in, make the connections and not just assume we have checked the box and moved on. It was just a good reminder, to keep that in our plans as we create agendas and work with young people.>> Audience members, we would love to hear your revelations. We have about 15 minutes before I turn it over to audience questions. I will move over to the second presentation. He talked about the results of witnessing racial violence. We know that young people have different responses so we should not assume that youth of color at a particular reaction. So, I am curious what is your advice to understand our young people may have been impacted after trauma.>> One thing that comes up is, in our work, anytime we are doing workshops or training, we have a no field. What do you want people to know we know, and I think Albert talked about this, the schools are very transactional. They are know this and then regurgitated on a test. A lot of pot top -- young people don't get that. Just as people about, how do you feel right now. How is this issue. How is this making you feel. Taking the time to get young people to talk about it. There is also different color charts that have different emotions. If we have practice, sometimes we are fine, we think it is unsatisfactory, and that may not be under the vocabulary, if you put it out, people can look and they see there are ways to generate conversation. We allow them a moment to think about feeling.>> I like that. The feeling seems like it works pretty well. You can pop it up. If you are on zoom people can draw on the screen.>> Anything from Kevin or Beth before we MoveOn?>> There is an understanding. If you have the conversation or it opens itself up. Something we do like in person. Every time the young people would show up, they would sign in and we would put a piece of paper in a box. And they know we will check in with them if they drop a red one. They can open up the conversation. It just makes it more allowable when that is a common thing that young people know that you do. You will check in with them, even the personal conversation, the more we are connected to them and know what it's going on, the more they will open up. The more they can trust us. The more they will let us know what is going on or what trauma they could have been through that can impact the way we do this moving forward.>> Thank you so much, Kevin. I appreciate the options suggested. Allowing young people to create boundaries. We may have young people who talk about results and they may not want to talk to us, assuming it is there. Whenever a young person can talk about the subject, that may create an opportunity. I think it is great to ask young people about the impact they have experienced because of covid. It is something I talked to the young people about. They were very upset that school got canceled and from got canceled but it did not change their lives. And some were really concerned that they would catch covid. So, there were varying levels of response. Whenever I put out questions, I did get feedback. Then I got responses from people.>> We also learned about strategies for healing trauma. Things like creating a routine and limiting social media and seeking professional help. Most of this looks like stuff we would do individually and privately. How do we help young people practice these skills? I think that is relevant to what Kevin and Sean shared. Creating a routine around checking in. You can explore ways to do mindfulness or giving different tools, asking some coping strategies they are aware of. That can be a good discussion. I think they nailed it when they talked about providing tools and normalizing the behaviors. I think that is the key to empowering young people to develop skills to deal with what they may be facing.>> I will put in the chat, and you can use this for breathing exercises. So there are things that can pop up. This is around mindfulness. The idea of what you are concerned about, and one of the things we have to acknowledge is, March 12, the governor said schools were closed. Some students have not been around their friends or engaged with their friends and nine months. We still had reports and headlines that were showing up. Just taking a moment to say, what are you grieving. What have you lost this year. Or what sports did you want to do. Or what did you plan on doing this year that you did not get to. There's a lot of isolation when people are at home. But when young people are talking, and you say Kevin said or Beth said, it can help people feel like, I am not alone in what I am feeling. There are ways. That we can say just dance. They can do fun pieces. I think the more they are connected the more they can have those conversations. Then you get a trickle-down effect of that I want to do something about it. That leads to the end goal. You still get to go after the things that you want to go after but you have to start with that and the understanding that you are valued and important, how does that give you purpose. Why do these things matter. What can we do to change this in the community or the greater area that we live in.>> We do have a message from Karen of building these activities into icebreakers. I think it would be easy to have someone practice a breathing activity. Sometimes they wonder how does this make an impact but even having a young person modeled the activity can make a big difference so they can do it more in their lives. Sometimes just recognizing that it is a hard time to be a young person allows them to share. Absolutely.>> Is it normal to show this. There is a general consensus to talk about what people are experiencing and feeling.>> If I could say one thing. One thing we do and I think it is important for us to model and recognize, young people may mirror spiritual sometimes being able to say what does it look like to put it out there instead of Saint I am deeply affected and then make the whole room come to mind when. Just when we put it out, we can say yes, I have been feeling the same thing. That is one of the ways we can allow them to lead where they are at so we are matching as opposed to making the climate.>> I think that is incredible. I have done my best to represent myself as being a credible authority. I noticed that sometimes that means if I share an idea, no one wants to contradict me. They just want to affirm. So I have to be very careful because it could be that my opinion becomes the dominant won and that will not be healthy. So thank you.>> I will as one more question and we can certainly keep talking until 3:30 p.m. but I want to open it to the audience. Get your questions ready. What have you noticed in your program that promotes equity within you?>> That is a big question and there's a lot we can talk about their what we have and don't have. That is something that really stood out to me today. It stood out when Al said we often times, we are doing positive work, we have these positive safe spaces and we can fall into the trap of thinking these major issues, especially around race and injustice are not happening. Maybe we are not explicitly excluding people but it certainly happens. Especially in our program in the middle of central Ohio and probably in programs all over the city, how are we understanding that it is happening, and how much time will we spend to make sure some of the things that can creep in are not happening. One thing we do differently, we don't have a youth government administrative structure. We don't have vice president and president in leadership positions that differentiate the young people to see that every time there is a leadership position there is one type of kid. I'm not saying that's a bad thing but for us, we know having young people being able to be on the same level to provide and have the same voice is really important.>> One thing that comes to mind, some of you may have seen it as a film. I saw Brian Stevenson and one thing he talked about is being proximate to the issues we want to address. I think that's important when we talk about equity and getting young people to address things. Sometimes they seek things on the news and they say we should do that. They have no framework, connection to those pieces. So, it makes me think about, because I think Albert Gay talked about this. Young people will change the world. We will turn over to them and they will save the spirit but sometimes you give pageant answers. They say things adults want to hear. They just want to help people and adults think that is so sweet. But, I always ask him do you want to help people and what skills do you have. What knowledge do you have spirit it gets them thinking more around the pieces. The idea being proximate, is really important so when we are making changes, we are not doing things to people who are distant, but we are impacting the community.>> I appreciate that. I don't see any questions in the chat right now so I will ask some questions until we have something from the audience.>> I'm sorry. Natalie has had her hand up for it while. I just want to make sure if she has a question or comment she can say it or if it is an accident. She can just let us know.>> Thank you so much, Brittany.>> If you would like to speak just unmute yourself.>> I think she put her hand down. So, if you want to speak feel free to type your question in the chat.>> For the rest of you who want to put your hand up, you can do the same. Otherwise we will keep an eye on the chat box.One of the things I have heard a lot, particularly with the white communities is racism is not a problem with up to worry about because there are no people of color here. We know that racism impacts all communities, regardless of how many people of color are present. So, panelist, what would you say to the people who are struggling to understand the relevance of racial injustice and how that impacts the programming.>> I think the thing that really struck me, but this one will keep resonating is that these little people and I'm thinking about the little people in different studies grow up to be different professions. That hit me upside the head as a person of white privilege, but it struck me the idea that in impacts everyone. I knew that, but the idea that we will all grow up and live our lives and that is why this is important from the beginning to make sure we are doing our best to get it right.>> I think there is such an opportunity for white people who grow up in predominantly white climates up that thought. There is a truth that I can grow up, and if I never want to and I live in this community I can grow up and never interact with people who are not my color. I can go into my garage, go to school or whatever and not interact in a deep way with someone that does not look like me. For young people that are in the prevention, we are taking them to other spaces. We have a conference and we are people from everywhere coming and every summer we deal with issues of bias from students who are coming from areas and now they are in a room with someone who does not look like them. Most of the time, nothing is ever stolen, it's misplaced. With those things creeping in, that is when we think back to what can we do, to make sure those things don't creep in.>> Someone said. Somewhere that the world is a big place. So -->> A couple of things. In addition to doing youth led work, I do work with inclusion and consulting. Every time we go into the schools, they will say can you make us more diverse. We have to tell them, we don't have a magic wand that we will waive and do this. But the idea is, this is an intentional practice you are doing. When we do youth programs we are intentional about bringing people together. But if we did an honest assessment of the people we work with on a daily basis, how many times are we in diverse spaces like we try to create, thinking about ways we are playing this out. This has to be intentional that you are creating ways to be inclusive but doing this, there's many ways to be inclusive around lgbtq students and students experiencing mental health challenges. There's a lot of invincible identities that we think about for the young people. Those are some of the things as well as being intentional that when people come in, they can feel that they are part of this and there's thought on how we embrace different audiences if you get a tran student, you don't know what to do, what do they do when they change. So people certainly have questions and this student feels other because no thought was given on how we make space for them. So much of this is how do we do the work and not just opening there is a one that will solve these issues. I heard someone speaking up. And just because the communities, are one way, it may look different tomorrow. So Elliot page came out as transgender yesterday. Some people may want to share their identity with the world and a reminder that young people are recognizing their LGB -- LG BQ status. We want to respond and welcome what they are sharing. Obviously, a person of color does not have to expose their color but we need to be able to look at this. I really appreciate what you said. When you want to assist people you judge character and have some level of empathy. For diversity, just believe that people are not treated fairly. Some people are treated unfairly. We should address that. And sometimes it can be that simple. I don't see any questions and the audience.>> We have been really struggling with our kids. I have been doing a lot more referrals for my kids for mental health services and things like that. I am very thankful that they are comfortable coming to Saint they have the situation going on. We talked to parents and what I'm struggling with is what are you doing with the community. Right now I feel like my kids are struggling so much, it is like I need to help them first to make sure they are in a safe space and they are getting the help they need before I help the community. But we're supposed to be doing thing so we are trying to be cumulative too. I don't want to add more on what they are struggling with paragraph at a difficult time with a director and I need them healthy before they can be healthy for someone else. Are you guys seeing that too? What you do? I think that is important and it is a very important piece. It is important to remind the stakeholders that young people are part of the community. Taking care of them helps take care of the community. And so that we can know that this is an essential role. We are not taking the old adage you can't pour from an empty cup. So often as adults, we don't do a good job modeling self-care. We are stretched and overwhelmed. As we have heard from the speakers today, young people are stretched. They are modeling what they are seeing from us. I think during this time, when we pause and that young people say, it's totally valid to feel how you feel to be where you are at, I'm here if you need something, one thing I will say for the youth Summit is, we provided a stipend for them. Normally we would not do that. But, we thought you are in school and in zoom all day and there's an additional meeting. We want to acknowledge that was taxing for young people. I think finding a way to invest in the young people and show you are stepping up and we want to honor that.>> You are not alone. I feel like if everyone on the call could unmute you would get a lot of people say they are in the same spot. We have been there as well. We are doing what you're doing. Continuing to give the young people what they need and continuing to be creative and find new ways to impact the community as a whole.>> I think we lose the opportunity to engage in the emotional part of our job. We don't get 15 minutes to talk with the young people and ask how they are doing. Sometimes people don't recognize that his work and it takes effort. It is an investment. Being able to look for opportunities to engage in the work, should be prioritized. I think we also need employers to recognize there needs to be time for that. How things scored on a test may not be related to prevention but being involved in their lives and we follow up and say, can you see -- send me the link to watch her play virtually. That will make the difference and keep them coming back. Just talking to them about the program may not have the same effect.Want to ask really quickly, if there is one thing that you all could make sure that everyone remembers. If you could wave a magic wand and make sure everyone remembers one thing from today's conference one year from now, what do you hope people take from today and keep taking? I want to hear the answers in the chat too.>> We cannot be stagnant. We have to continue to evolve the way the program operates is innovative.>> It is that we continue to move up the ladder and be mindful of the fact that we don't know what we don't know.>> This connects the two of them. When we put pressure on young people, that puts a weight on them. Meeting people where they are is enervating what we do.>> I hope you guys get a chance to read through the chat but I will let the panelists at the last word. With that, I want to thank everyone for being here. Before and after the conference and continuing to do the hard work. 2020 has been something else but the young people need us more than ever and we can make a difference in their lives. I'm glad we could do this together. I'm glad that you remember the solidarity and the hope we were able to develop today and you look back on your notes and you try to figure out some things you can do to make the work easier and more successful tomorrow. I am sure I will see each of you in time whether for a virtual meeting or next year's summit.Thank you for being here. Please respond to your evaluations and remember you will receive your certificate in the e-mail. Did I miss anything?>> I don't think so. I was just going to remind everyone please fill out your evaluation it will come in one hour to your e-mail.We will also post the sessions they were recorded on the website, once we downloaded. And we edit. Those will be posted on the website. We have had a closed captioner, so we will have transcripts as well that we can pull somewhere.All of the handouts are assessable after the session. Thank you for spending your day and we hope you had a good time.>> Thank you everyone, have a good night. ................
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