Links and Resources: Cultural Diversity

• Working with Latino Families
• Resources in Spanish
• Ayudate has a new feature on their website - Latino demographics by county.
• Helping the Spanish-Speaking Population Deal with Natural Disasters in NC
• Using the New Racial Categories in the 2000 Census. A very interesting Executive Summary from the Annie E. Casey Foundation (for disadvantaged children).
• Fall Colors: 2000-2001 Prime Time Diversity Report
• Teaching Tolerance: a Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center provides teachers at all levels with ideas and free resources for community building in the classroom and beyond.
• National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is dedicated to reducing poverty and discrimination and improving educational and professional opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
• Children Now, children@childrennow.org or 1-800-CHILD-44 Works to achieve solutions to problems faced by children, especially those who are poor or at risk. Forges partnerships with parents, community leaders, lawmakers, business and media.
• Teaching for Change Catalog is a product of Network of Educators on the Americas, this catalog offers multicultural educational resources and materials
• Tips for Parenting in a Commercial Culture, the Center for a New American Dream is a parent’s guide addressing strategies to help address the hyper-consumerism of today’s culture.
• Toward a More Perfect Union In an Age of Diversity, scrc@neca.com. A Guide for Building Stronger Communities through Public Dialogue Study Circles Resource Center 
• Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: a Developmental Approach By Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol Brunson Phillips, Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University New York and London, c. 1997. This book details the methodology and course content of anti-racism curriculum for adults. It addresses the development of anti-racist identify in adults, awareness and behavior.
• In Our Own Way How Anti-Bias Work Shapes Our Lives. Edited by Cecelia Alvarado, Redleaf Press a division of Resources for Child Caring, Inc. 450 North Syndicate, Suite 5, St. Paul, MN 55104-4125. Personal reflections of people who have worked to establish anti-bias in child care. Shared anecdotes will help caregivers shape an anti-bias program.
• Latino parents: unique preferences for learning about parenting
• Title XI and Federal Civil Rights Lesiglation on Discrimination As It Affects People with Limited English Proficiency

For more information please contact

Rose Powers
Program Administrator
860-2277