Community Calendar

Moving the focus from individual bigotry and bias, the REI Phase I workshop presents a historical, cultural, structural and institutional analysis over 2 days. REI believes that organizations often work for equity with multiple understandings of racism that rely more on personal feelings and popular opinion. The lack of a common analysis creates complications to the goal of eliminating racial and ethnic disparities and producing equitable outcomes. With a clear understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants in Phase I are able to begin a journey to work towards social transformation and racial justice.

Moving the focus from individual bigotry and bias, the REI Phase I workshop presents a historical, cultural, structural and institutional analysis over 2 days. REI believes that organizations often work for equity with multiple understandings of racism that rely more on personal feelings and popular opinion. The lack of a common analysis creates complications to the goal of eliminating racial and ethnic disparities and producing equitable outcomes. With a clear understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants in Phase I are able to begin a journey to work towards social transformation and racial justice.

This training will support youth-serving professionals understand the key principles of using a trauma-informed approach when facilitating sexual education programs. *Participation in pre-webinar is required. A link will be sent to you two weeks before the in-person training.

Register here: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egksqfop740a9835&oseq=&c=&ch=

CREATE, a new initiative at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, the UNC School of Law are co-hosting a "Closing the Wealth Gap" Conference on November 6-7, 2019 at UNC Chapel Hill.

This event is the culmination of a 3-part series in which thought leaders from different disciplines present to academic researchers, students, and community members on the ever-increasing wealth gap of the United States, and its ramifications for U.S. prosperity. The conference will cover a range of topics, including consequences of wealth inequities in America, the role of community investors in closing the wealth gap, practices of other countries with more narrow wealth gaps, the role of policy, places and technology in closing the wealth gap and, finally, solutions to addressing this problem. This conference is an interdisciplinary forum organized, in part, by graduate students from the UNC School of Law, the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the UNC School of Social Work, and the Kenan-Flagler Business School.

For more details please visit https://kenaninstitute.unc.edu/events/wealthgap/

FREE!

Learn the tools to challenge implicit racial bias and be a better ally with Ronda Taylor Bullock, Triangle local and Executive Director of we are (Working to Extend Anti-Racist Education).

This presentation helps attendees understand that racial biases develop at very early ages. Ronda Taylor Bullock will share information about why educators and parents should be focused on having race-based conversations with kids and will share how her organization navigates these tough conversations using literacy-based strategies. Kids attending this session will participate in a book reading followed by a hands-on activity.

By the end of the session participants will:
1. Have a booklist of recommended texts for children pre-kindergarten through 5th grade
2. Understand how to foster race-based conversations with children

About our speaker, Ronda Taylor Bullock, Co-Founder and E.D. of we are Originally from Goldston, NC, Ms. Bullock earned her doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill in the Policy, Leadership, and School Improvement Program in 2018. Her research interests are critical race theory, whiteness studies, white children’s racial identity construction, and anti-racism. Prior to entering her doctoral program, Ronda taught English for almost ten
years at Hillside High School in Durham, NC, where she now resides.

Moving the focus from individual bigotry and bias, the REI Phase I workshop presents a historical, cultural, structural and institutional analysis over 2 days. REI believes that organizations often work for equity with multiple understandings of racism that rely more on personal feelings and popular opinion. The lack of a common analysis creates complications to the goal of eliminating racial and ethnic disparities and producing equitable outcomes. With a clear understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants in Phase I are able to begin a journey to work towards social transformation and racial justice.

Moving the focus from individual bigotry and bias, the REI Phase I workshop presents a historical, cultural, structural and institutional analysis over 2 days. REI believes that organizations often work for equity with multiple understandings of racism that rely more on personal feelings and popular opinion. The lack of a common analysis creates complications to the goal of eliminating racial and ethnic disparities and producing equitable outcomes. With a clear understanding of how institutions and systems are producing unjust and inequitable outcomes, participants in Phase I are able to begin a journey to work towards social transformation and racial justice.

Free HIV/HCV/STI screening. No appointment needed.

Register at https://bikramdurham.com/schedule/

Free HIV/HCV/STI screening. No appointment needed.

Hear the results of Duke & Community-partnered, community-engaged research projects that studied:

mental and physical health problems of people who have been evicted from public housing (Durham Housing Authority)
ways to promote the uptake of PrEP, a daily pill that reduces HIV risk (Triangle Empowerment Center)
prenatal care among women with a history of preterm birth to increase awareness of the option of taking 17-P, a drug that helps prevent early birth (Diaper Bank of North Carolina)
conducting surveys for assessing social determinants of health at Lincoln Community Health Center (Lincoln Community Health Center)
health behaviors and outcomes among students at Duke, Durham Tech, and NCCU (North Carolina Central University and Durham Technical Community College)
creating a Community Health Advisor smoking cessation program for Durham Housing Authority residents (Durham County Department of Public Health)
Keynote Address will be presented by Dr. Luke Smith, El Futuro

Also hear from community researchers about their experiences and learn more about Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) core services

Please visit this link to register - https://www.ctsi.duke.edu/news/population-health-improvement-awards-community-forum-november-15-2019

Join us for a public forum to educate attendees about prevention and treatment of health conditions caused by vaping, smoking, and other inhalants with presentations from health specialists.

To register, please visit this link: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egocsfqq184dc65c&oseq=&c=&ch=

Monthly community walks in various Durham parks. All are welcome. For more information contact Joyce Page at 919.560.7109 or jpage@dconc.gov or Jeff Forde, Durham Parks and Recreation, at 919.471.1623 or Jeffrey.forde@durhamnc.gov.

Five Listening and Learning Workshops (identical in format and content) are scheduled between November 14-19 in locations throughout the community. To begin, these workshops will include information to help you understand what a Comprehensive Plan is and does, how it’s relevant to you, and to provide an overview of the process. They will also provide an opportunity to provide input on the new Transit Plan. Then the majority of the session will create space for community members to share with each other and with City and County staff their experience of Durham today, in the past, and their hopes for our future. This input will shape our community’s vision for Durham’s future and will be the foundation for creating these new plans.

All workshops are identical so choose a two-hour event to attend that is most convenient for you. Doors open 30 minutes early. Each workshop will be about 2 hours long. Spanish interpretation, free childcare, and light refreshments will be provided.

If you’re passionate about shaping Durham’s future this is your chance for your voice to be an integral part of this process. Bring your ideas to the workshops!

Five Listening and Learning Workshops (identical in format and content) are scheduled between November 14-19 in locations throughout the community. To begin, these workshops will include information to help you understand what a Comprehensive Plan is and does, how it’s relevant to you, and to provide an overview of the process. They will also provide an opportunity to provide input on the new Transit Plan. Then the majority of the session will create space for community members to share with each other and with City and County staff their experience of Durham today, in the past, and their hopes for our future. This input will shape our community’s vision for Durham’s future and will be the foundation for creating these new plans.

All workshops are identical so choose a two-hour event to attend that is most convenient for you. Doors open 30 minutes early. Each workshop will be about 2 hours long. Spanish interpretation, free childcare, and light refreshments will be provided.

If you’re passionate about shaping Durham’s future this is your chance for your voice to be an integral part of this process. Bring your ideas to the workshops!