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Action Plans
Executive Committee
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Ability Building Center
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Channel One
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Diversity Council
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IMAA
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Families First
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Family Service Rochester
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SE MN Area Agency on Aging
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Zumbro Valley Health Center
PreK-16 Students, Educators
& Administrators
Diversity Council offers a variety of training for PreK-16, families, educators, and administrators. Our training aids in understanding bias, self-empowerment, tangible tools, and using empathy to create spaces of belonging. Additionally, Diversity Council strives to have respectful and courageous conversations rooted in a commonplace of learning. Following all training, workshops, programs, and educational experiences resources are provided for individuals to continue their learning.
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Having equitable communities means understanding the systematic reasons why inequity exists. One concept that allows us to study our current systems is Critical Race Theory. This legal theory studies and analyzes the impact of systemic racism on the American legal system and institutions with the goal of eliminating these inequities. The Diversity Council supports the application of Critical Race Theory where appropriate.
PreK-12 Programs
The research used to develop these classroom-based workshops indicated that young people who learn to see diversity as an asset rather than a liability are better prepared to succeed as adults. The workshops include a series of age-appropriate lessons that focus on increasing knowledge and understanding, building empathy and self-esteem, and developing critical thinking skills.  As students progress through the program, they learn basic concepts of 'alike & different' and move to challenging discussions on world religions, race, and disability.  
StandUp Students, a program of the Diversity Council, provides interactive scenario-based training that equips students with tools and tactics to interrupt bias and hate as it occurs, in safe and age-appropriate ways that help build environments where all students feel welcome.
Student Leaders Creating Change (SLCC) is a student-led experience, formed to make schools safer, more inclusive places, with the mission of decreasing bias incidents and encouraging participation through creative leadership. SLCC aims to help students understand how our biases and prejudices lead to different forms of discrimination against historically marginalized and vulnerable groups, how to properly recognize and safely disrupt bias and prejudice incidents, and to work collectively towards creating inclusive and welcoming spaces within our learning environments and beyond.
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EquityLogic™ within education systems contains training programs that engages students, educators, and families. Diversity Council uses several of their training curriculum in this program to help students, educators and administrators, and parents/guardians further their diversity, equity, and inclusion journeys. EquityLogic™ focuses on developing skills to advocate against prejudice, bias, and hate as well as practice safe interruption skills. Core curriculum for educators, admins, and parents/guardians provides additional tools to help students build their self-advocacy skills, and create support and inclusive classroom environments rooted in growth.
Higher Education Programs
Student Leaders Creating Change (SLCC) is a student-led experience, formed to make schools safer, more inclusive places, with the mission of decreasing bias incidents and encouraging participation through creative leadership. SLCC aims to help students understand how our biases and prejudices lead to different forms of discrimination against historically marginalized and vulnerable groups, how to properly recognize and safely disrupt bias and prejudice incidents, and to work collectively towards creating inclusive and welcoming spaces within our learning environments and beyond.
Bystander to Upstander sessions are participatory, scenario-based workshops that provide opportunities for individuals to learn about and practice responses to incidents they might encounter in business, on campus, and in their daily lives. Unlike traditional diversity training, these activity-based workshops focus on real-time interventions.
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EquityLogic™ within higher education systems contains training programs that engage students, professors, and faculty. Diversity Council uses several of its training curriculum in this program to help students, educators, and faculty further their diversity, equity, and inclusion journeys. EquityLogic™ focuses on developing skills to advocate against prejudice, bias, and hate as well as practice safe interruption skills. The core curriculum for professors and faculty provides additional tools to help students build their self-advocacy skills, and create support and inclusive classroom and campus environments rooted in growth.
Our Community Initiatives
For Education
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