Happy Birthday Mimi

Cheers!

AR Training Requested for Edmonton

We should get her to fill out an AR request form eh?
Hello UU folks!

I am involved with a young adults organization that focuses on self education (http://www.quovadis-gathering.org/main.html) and although not specifically UU, it attracts many of the same crowd. There is a growing interest in education within this gathering about oppression and racism- and when I thought of resources to share, I thought of DRUUM. I would love to find a guest speaker/trainer that could come do an anti- oppression anti-racism workshop for this conference, could anyone tell me how to go about doing this? Is it even possible?

-Dawn, mostly lurker and young adult in the Westwood congregation of Edmonton Alberta Canada dawn@nbtsc.org

ARID Notes May 18, 2005

5/18/2005

Proposed agenda:

ID group manual
Transformation team
Are taught to
Visioning, looking at restructuring.

Present on the call: Joseph, Brian, Petra, Tracy, Elandria, Mimi, Michael, Jesse.

1) Opening statements from Joseph, who signed off early for Aimee’s graduation:

One) ARTOTO II needs to happen. The ARTO people need more training, and an ARTOTO II would be a good opportunity to plan for the spring regional antiracism trainings.

Two) a few people should be tasked to think about an ARID’s relationships of accountability, and specifically think about the presence and role of volunteers on the area.

There was some discussion of Joseph’s points, the main points of which were:

-if we are going to spend the money for an ARTOTO II, that time should be spent giving people skills and training (that time should not be spent planning for the spring regional antiracism trainings).

-this statement about air is accountability and volunteer roles need not be longer than two pages, and the two people who should write it are MIMI and JOSEPH.

2) Brief report-back from the subcommittee tasked to come up with an approximate dollar cost of an ARTOTO II (Tracey, Meggie, Beth, Brian).

High-end estimate (P&E): $17,000

Low and estimate (home stays): $10,000

Alternative location suggested by Jesse – the Walker Center in Newton -- $15,500.

Continuing to place youth in home stays for meetings and trainings may not be a good idea.

3) Brief reports from Tracy, Michael, and Jesse about next year’s budgets for youth and young adult antiracism and anti-oppression work:

Jesse: $2000 for the regional antiracism trainings, $3000 for the transformation team

Michael: $2000 for the regional antiracism trainings, $3000 for the transformation team

Tracy: I’m sure, at most $2000. Final budget related meeting of the leadership Council is in August.

4) The group reluctantly comes to the conclusion that we don’t have the money for an ATTOTO II in FY06.

Jesse suggests that we wait until FY07 (08?), when the youth office will have significantly more money available.

5) Brainstorm! What needs do we have to be serving? How can we serve them effectively?

-The ARTO folks need more training and experience, especially those who will be running the spring regional antiracism trainings.

-Can we do a mini-ARTOTO II with just to those folks know we want to leave the spring regional antiracism trainings, thereby establishing the lead trainer/apprentice trainer skill level differentiation that was supposed to have been present from the start, and ensuring that the people leading the spring regional antiracism trainings will be better prepared?

-Do we try and do a series of small, regional ARTOTO II’s?

-do we instead try to establish mentor in an apprenticeship relationships (also supposed to exist already)?

-How do we encourage people to seek out more training?

-How do we encourage people to work more with our partner organizations?

-Can we seek external sources of funding?

-what about providing funding for ARTO members to seek out trainings and other “continuing ed” opportunities in their areas?

6) In the end, the group chose three ideas to pursue:

Group 1: Jesse, Michael, another ARTO member: continuing ed scholarships. Criteria, application process, decision-making, process, technology use. Possible criteria include a local focus, youth empowerment focus, preference to our partner organizations...

Group 2: Tracy, Brian, Elandria: apprenticeship program that will prepare people to lead the spring regional antiracism trainings. Things to think about: how do we select these people, do we gather them and how, where, when, and with whom?

Groups 3: Petra and Mimi: grants and external funding. We will start by contacting Sarah Gibb.

-Petra Aldrich

Youth Council Training

Ian White Maher informed me today that he and Elandria Williams are leading a 7 day anti-racism training for Youth Council in Iowa at the end of July with Ian Moore and George Brown as apprentices. This is so excellent! It would be great to hear more from each of you involved in this.

FUUSE Racism Discussion

Jim Sechrest initiated a dialogue on FUUSE.com about problems with anti-racism and several folks are providing some specific details which I believe are important for us to study and respond to effectively.