Resources for Dealing with Ongoing Racial Trauma

Hard Conversations (for Educators and Parents)

• Michigan State University - Building Inclusive Communities
  Faculty one-pagers on difficult dialogues in the classroom
  • Setting up an Inclusive Classroom (PDF)
  • Some Dialogue Basics (PDF)
  • Intercultural Dialogue Facilitation (PDF)
  • Strategies for Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom (PDF)
  • Interrupting Bias: A Technique (PDF)
  • Microaggressions: A Primer (PDF)
• Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
• Helping Youth after Community Trauma: Tips for Educators
• Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma
  These tools from Teaching Tolerance can help educators engage with students about violence against Black men and the radicalized systems that allow it to continue, and to do so without re-traumatizing Black students and with extra care for their mental health.
• National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN): Addressing Race and Trauma in the Classroom

LMU Center for Teaching Excellence | Review Events

• Helping Students in Crisis: Watch Event
• Difficult Conversations with Students | February 05, 2021: View Event Notes
  Sometimes students need to hear things they don't want to. Somethings things need to be said that we don't know how to say. Faculty share their best practices for having difficult conversations with students.
  Panelists:
• Todd Shoepe (health and human sciences)
• Jordan Freitas (computer science)
• Barbara Marino (electrical engineering)
• Emily Fisher (education)
• Michael Noltemeyer (Writing Program)

Racial Trauma, Resiliency, and Ally Resources

• Surviving and Resisting Hate: A Toolkit for People of Color
• Healing Ethno-Racial Trauma in Latinx Immigrant Communities: Cultivating Hope, Resistance, and Action
• Our Struggles Are Intertwined: Intersections of Mental Health and Oppression  | Institute for the Development of Human Arts
  A free e-course for anyone interested in an intersectional analysis and holistic approach to healing. It provides a historical analysis of how systems of oppression have impacted marginalized groups’ interactions with the mental health system and explores an intersectional approach to making change in the mental health system.

Self Care and Coping 

• The Empower Lab: Coping with Racial Trauma: View infographic
• My Grandmother's Heands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies
  Resmaa Menakem, a therapist in Minnesota, is providing a free course on racialized trauma. 
• Virtual Meditation Groups for People of Color
• Self-Care Tips for Black People Struggling With This Very Painful Week
  If images of Black suffering have left you feeling sad and angry and overwhelmed, here are some things you might do to get a tiny bit of relief.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Community

• Stop AAPI Hate
• ACT NOW: Incident Reporting
• Anti-Asian Violence: Take Action, Donate, and Learn More
• Implicit Bias in a Pandemic: A Case of Virus Bias
• Fighting Anti-Asian Racism through Solidarity
• Asian Pacific Student Services
• Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty Staff Association
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice’s Tell Your Story
• Bystander intervention training to stop anti-Asian American and xenophobic harassment

Mental Health

• Asian American Psychological Association COVID-19 Related Resources
• Asian Mental Health Project
• National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
• Asian Mental Health Collective
• South Asian Therapists
• Asians Do Therapy

Black and African-American Community

• Black Lives Matter: Toolkits
• Common Coping Strategies
• Radical Self-Care in the Face of Mounting Racial Stress
• 44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country
• Tips for Self-Care: When Police Brutality Has You Questioning Humanity and Social Media is Enough
• Family-Care, Community-Care and Self-Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma
• 5 Self-Care Practices Black People Can Use While Coping With Trauma 

Mental Health

• BEAM: Black Emotional And Mental Health
• Melanin and Mental Health
• Therapy for Black Girls
• Black Men Heal
• Black Mental Wellness
• InnoPsych: Changing the Face of Therapy
• Kindred Medicine

Indigenous and Native American Community

• American Indian Services 
• Protect Native Elders
• Native American Rights Fund
• American Indian College Fund
• Women Empowering Women for Indigenous Nations (WEWIN)

Mental Health

• National Council of Urban Indian Health
• NAMI - Understanding Indigenous Mental Health; Important Factors, Barriers, and Seeking Competent Care
• Suicide Prevention in Indigenous Communities

Latinx Community

• Latinx/Hispanic: Identity and Cultural Dimensions
• National Latin@ Network
• Latinx Chicanx Center for Advocacy and Student Affairs (La CASA)
• MALDEF: The Latino Legal Voice for Civil Rights in America

Mental Health

• Therapy for Latinx
• Latinx Therapy
• Behavioral Health Equity: Hispanic/Latino
• Compartiendo Esperanza: There is no health without mental health
• Each mind matters: Latino communities
• LULAC’s Latinos Living Healthy (LLH)

Human Resources

Mental Health Resources Provided by LMU

Events and Workshops

• Wed April 21 @ 11:30am: Express - Self Care Check Up 
• Tues April 27 @ 12:00pm: Understanding Your Feelings and Emotional Wellbeing
• Thurs April 29 @ 12:30pm: Faculty Ergonomics and Eye Health
• Thurs April 29 @ 4:00pm: Faculty Improving Your Sleep Hygiene
• Fri April 30 @ 12:00pm: Empowering Women Through Self Defense

Intercultural Affairs

• The LMU Anti-Racism Project
• OIA’s Diversity Resources (academic journals, web resources, D&I Quick Tips)
• Report Discrimination and Bias Incidents
• OMBUDS Services
• Contact Ombuds Person

Loyola Law School Centers

• LLS Anti-Racism Center
• Civil Justice Program
• Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy and Innovation
• Loyola Center For Conflict Resolution(LCCR)
• Project on Dispute Resolution and Development(ProDRD)

Student Affairs

• Living on Campus? Connect with Resident Ministers on the Campus Ministry Team and with the Residential Support Staff
• Ethnic and Intercultural Services
• Community of Care
• Student Psychological Services: