LGBTQ+
- A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients by Sand Chang, Anneliese Singh, and lore m. dickey
- Providing Inclusive Care and Services for the Transgender and Gender Diverse Community: A Pharmacy Resource Guide (pdf)
- Self-Assessment Tool: “Is Your Agency Ready to Serve Transgender and Non-Binary Clients?” (pdf)
Allyship & Advocacy
Work with Violence Survivors
General
- First Do No Harm: 8 Tips for Addressing Violence Against Transgender and Gender Non-Binary People (pdf)
Sexual Violence
- A Guide for Facilitators of Transgender Community Groups: Supporting Sexual Violence Survivors (pdf)
- Serving Trans Survivors: A 101 for Advocates (video)
- Serving Transgender Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence Webinar
Disability
- A Conversation on Serving Deaf Survivors
- Addressing Intersecting Identities in our Work to End Violence Against People with Disabilities
- Addressing Trauma in the Lives of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Consent and Healthy Sexuality for People with Disabilities
- Disability and Transgender Survivors: Empowering Providers who Work with Multiply-Marginalized Populations
- Effectively Supporting Survivors with Mental Health Disabilities
- Meeting the Needs of American Indian and Alaska Native Survivors with Disabilities
- Meeting the Needs of Autistic Survivors
- Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Survivors with Disabilities
- Providing Accessible Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Who are Blind or Have Low Vision
- Removing Barriers for Survivors with Disabilities Seeking Protection Orders
- Serving Survivors who Have Service Animals
- Strategies and Tools for Serving Survivors with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Supporting Deaf & DeafBlind Survivors
Education
General
- Advancing Educational Equity for Underserved Youth
- Civil Rights Data Collection Webinar Slides
- Culturally Relevant Curriculum and Culturally Responsive Schools Toolkit
- Engage for Ed Equity: A Toolkit for School Communities on the Every Student Succeeds Act
- Facilitating Effective Interventions: Using an Early Warning Approach to Prevent Dropouts
- Intersectionality and School Psychology: Implications for Practice
- Model School Code on Education and Dignity
- Requesting Data from Your District
- Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools (pdf)
- The School Girls Deserve Report
- Toolkit - Ethnic Studies in Every School District!
Bias
- Unconscious Bias in the Classroom: Evidence and Opportunities (pdf)
- Breaking The Chains: School-To-Prison-Pipeline, Implicit Bias and Racial Trauma (pdf)
Race
- A Research to Practice Collaborative: You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Look At: Acknowledging Race in Addressing Racial Discipline Disparities (pdf)
- Advocating for Racial Equity in Our Schools
- Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage
- Educators push back locally against the invisibility of Native Americans in schools
- From The Classroom To The Courtroom: The Adultification of Black Girls (pdf)
- Introducing the series “Correct(ED)”
- Lessons in Racial Justice & Movement Building
- Let Her Learn: Stopping School Pushout for Girls of Color (pdf)
- The 1619 Project Resource Page
LGBTQ+
- 5 Things Educators Are Doing to Support LGBTQ Rights Now
- Advocating for LGBTQ Student Rights in the Mississippi Delta Resource Guide
- Gender Non-Conforming Youth: Discipline Disparities, School Push-out and the School-To-Prison-Pipeline (pdf)
- Sharing Aloha: Equity, Social Justice and Inclusion for LGBTQIA Students (FB Live ~54 minutes)
Disability
- A Literature Map of Dropout Prevention Interventions for Students With Disabilities (pdf)
- School Pushout: Impacts on students with special needs and their families
Trauma
- Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS): A Whole-School, MultiLevel, Prevention and Intervention Program for Creating Trauma-Informed, Safe and Supportive Schools (pdf)
- Responding to Trauma and Tragedy in the Classroom: A Guide for Teachers and Caretakers
- Webinar: Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in School Discipline
Discipline, Police, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Action Kit for the Rescinding of the School Discipline Guidance and the Commission on School Safety Report
- Addressing The Root Causes Of Disparities In School Discipline (pdf)
- Addressing the Out-of-School Suspension Crisis: A Policy Guide for School Board Members
- Alternative Discipline Structures: A Comprehensive Approach to Changing Behavior (pdf)
- Black Students ‘Face Racial Bias’ in School Discipline
- Bullies in Blue: The Origins and Consequences of School Policing
- Civil Rights Project Online Suspension Data Tool
- Counselors Not Cops Platform and Resource Guide
- Counselors Not Cops: Ending the Regular Presence of Law Enforcement in Schools
- Creating Positive Discipline (pdf)
- Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Freedom Inc. Police Free Schools: FAQ’s
- Institutionalized Bullying: Expanding beyond Peer Bullying
- Locked Out of the Classroom: How Implicit Bias Contributes to Disparities in School Discipline
- Model Policies to Fight Criminalization
- ONE-PAGE GRAPHIC: Remedies and Solutions to Address Excessive Discipline, UCLA Civil Rights Project (pdf)
- Police in Schools are Not the Answer to School Shootings
- Sample Policies that Address School to Deportation Pipeline
- School to Deportation Pipeline Know Your Rights Guides
- Toolkit on Organizing to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline
- Webinar: Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences in School Discipline
For Parents
- Parent to Parent Restorative Justice Guide (y en espanol)
- Student-Parent Handbook: School Discipline, School Pushout, Student-Parent Handbook
Restorative & Transformative Justice
- RJ in Schools, Restorative questions (pdf)
- Bringing RJ Into Schools (pdf)
- Circle Process (pdf)
- Circle Keeper Reflection Sheet (pdf)
- Common Challenges in Circle (pdf)
- Types of Circles by Tier (pdf)
- Whole School Restorative Justice (pdf)
- Restorative Justice One-Pager (pdf)
- Restorative Justice Implementation Process Worksheet (pdf) (y en espanol)
- Restorative Practices: Fostering Healthy Relationships & Promoting Positive Discipline in Schools - A Guide for Educators (pdf)
- Restorative and Transformative Justice Toolkit
- Moving Beyond Retribution: Alternatives to Punishment in a Society Dominated by the School-To-Prison-Pipeline (pdf)
- What Do We Know About School Discipline Reform: Assessing the Alternatives To Suspensions and Expulsions (pdf)
- Improving School Climate: Evidence from Schools Implementing Restorative Practices (pdf)
- Case Study: Alternatives’ Restorative Justice work at Paul Robeson High School 2014-2017
Resources
Social Work
Basics
- A Guide to Responding to Microaggressions (pdf)
- Advancing Inclusivity by Caucusing (pdf)
- Biases: NCWWI 1-Page Summary (pdf)
- Building a Multi-Ethnic, Inclusive & Antiracist Organization (pdf)
- Courageous Conversations about Race (video)
- Cultural Humility (video)
- Cultural Humility and Management in Child Welfare (video)
- Cultural Humility Practice Principles (pdf)
- Cultural Responsiveness
- Implicit Bias 101: Exploring Implicit Bias in Child Protection
- Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity (pdf)
- Responding to Microaggressions and Bias (pdf)
- The Wakanheza Project™ Creating Welcoming Environments (pdf)
- Understanding Bias
- Understanding Structural Racism Activity (Word)
Immigrants & Refugees
- A Social Worker's Tool Kit for Working with Immigrant Families - A Child Welfare Flowchart (pdf)
- Best Practices Guide for Working with Families from Refugee Backgrounds in Child Welfare (pdf)
- Information Packet Cultural Sensitivity with Immigrant Families and Their Children (pdf)
- Resources for Child Welfare Professionals Working with Families from Refugee Backgrounds (pdf)
LGBTQ+
- All Children-All Families Benchmarks of LGBT Cultural Competency (pdf)
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth in the Child Welfare System (pdf)
Race & Ethnicity
- 1619 Project Reading Guide
- 3 Tools for Getting Started with the Race Matters Toolkit (pdf)
- Dismantling Racism: A Resource Book: For Social Change Groups (pdf)
- Institutional Racism and the Social Work Profession: A Call to Action (pdf)
Assessments & Guides
- A Guide to Planning & Implementing Cultural Competence Organization Self-Assessment (pdf)
- A Guide for Using the Cultural and Linguistic Competence Policy Assessment Instrument (pdf)
- Assessing Organizational Racism (pdf)
- A Guide for Using the Cultural and Linguistic Competence Family Organization Assessment Instrument (pdf)
- Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Organization (pdf)
- Cultural and Linguistic Competence Policy Assessment (pdf)
- Cultural Competency Organizational Self-Assessment Toolkit (pdf)
- Race Matters: Organizational Self-Assessment (pdf)
- Race Matters Toolkit: User's Guide
- Race to Equity Toolkit for Conversation (pdf)
- Racial Equity Impact Assessment (pdf)
- Racial Equity Toolkit to Assess Policies, Initiatives, Programs, and Budget Issues (pdf)
- Resources for Promoting Cultural Competency Self-Awareness (pdf)
- Self-Assessment Tool: “Is Your Agency Ready to Serve Transgender and Non-Binary Clients?” (pdf)
- The Role of Self-Assessment in Achieving Cultural Competence (pdf)
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (pdf)
Mental Health Professionals
Vital
- 5 Ways to Empower Someone without Saying “You’re Strong”
- A Practical Guide to Therapeutic Work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees by Angelina Jalonen and Paul Cilia La Corte
- Anti-oppression psychotherapy: An emancipatory integration of intersectionality into psychotherapy
- Culturally Responsive Counseling for People of Color: A Letter from Client to Therapist
- Decolonizing Mental Health: Confronting the Ruins
- Decolonize Mental Health: Debunking the "Civilized" Myth
- Decolonize Mental Health: Examine 10 Assumptions of Eurocentric/North American Psychology
- Decolonizing Mental Health: Reexamine "Cultural Stigma"
- How Community Trauma and Intersectionality Influence Mental Health
- How to Set Culturally Attuned Boundaries and Why It Matters in Therapy
- Moving Beyond Mere Cultural Competence in Counseling: What to Know
- Our Mental Health Profession Must Stop Being Lazy and Do Better
- Poverty and Psychology: From Global Perspective to Local Practice, edited by Stuart C Carr & Tod Sloan
- The Social Justice Myth and Why Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, LGBTQ+ Folks and Other Marginalized Groups Are Fearful of Therapy
- Thoughts on how Western "Superiority" Perpetuates a White Savior Complex
- We've Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health, edited by L D Green and Kelechi Ubozoh
Intersectionality
- Intersectionality: Considerations in counseling (video)
- Intersectionality and Psychotherapy
- Intersectionality in psychology: A rainbow perspective
- Intersectional Therapy
- Ten Tips for Putting Intersectionality into Practice
- Understanding Your Identities
- What We All Need to Know About the Term “Intersectionality”
In Schools
Race & Ethnicity
- All psychologies are indigenous psychologies: Reflections on psychology in a global era
- Reenvisioning Therapy with Women of Color: A Black Feminist Healing Perspective by Lani V. Jones
LGBTQ+
- The Gender Affirmative Model: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Supporting Transgender and Gender Expansive Children, edited by Colt Keo-Meier and Diane Ehrensaft
- Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community by Laura Erickson-Schroth
- Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, & Being You by Kathryn Gonzales & Karen Rayne
- The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals by Stephanie A. Brill and Rachel Pepper
- Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens by Stephanie A. Brill and Lisa Kenney
At The Intersections
- Adames, Hector & Chavez-Dueñas, Nayeli & Sharma, Shweta & La Roche, Martin. (2018). Intersectionality in Psychotherapy: The Experiences of an AfroLatinx Queer Immigrant. Psychotherapy. 55. 73-79. 10.1037/pst0000152.
- Healing Personal Trauma is Not the Same As Healing Cultural Trauma
- Why Representation Matters in Mental Health
Bodywork
- Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics, edited by Don Hanlon Johnson
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