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Prevention in Action: Hate Crimes, De-Escalation, and Bystander Intervention
February 8 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
With hateful speech and actions on the rise, it’s important that library staff learn how to recognize, interrupt, and de-escalate conflict and hate crimes in order to keep our libraries and communities safe. This webinar — led by trainers from the Arab American Association of New York and Malikah — will introduce library staff tools to de-escalate a hate incident and create safe library spaces. The Arab American Association of New York’s Hate Crimes Prevention Training focuses on combating the rise in hate crimes through education, providing community members with the tools needed to protect themselves, and equipping community members with preventative measures and resources to report a hate crime. Malikah’s Bystander Intervention Training focuses on teaching the five D’s of intervention and how we can all foster a safer, more inclusive environment. The goal of this webinar is to give us all the tools we need to be a part of the solution to defend dignity and inspire change in our communities — to put prevention in action.
– review scenarios to identify hate crimes and bias incidents
– discover reporting mechanisms that can be used with clients if they’d like to report a hate crime or bias incident
– learn intervention techniques that will help bring positive outcomes to potentially harmful situations.
Presenters: Maryam Khaldi is the Coalition Organizer at Arab American Association of New York. Maryam is an advocate for social justice that has been working on the ground in NYC to respond to the asylum seeker crisis, the food insecurity crisis, has been working to address the rise in hate crimes in NYC, and has been providing resources to community members through educational workshops and trainings to empower and equip community members with resources to navigate living in NYC.
Deena Hadhoud is the Program Director at Malikah. She has facilitated and/or supported over 100 events in collaboration with 40+ partners over the past year, with the goal of building power and safety for communities impacted by gender and hate-based violence.
Free to RRLC & ESLN Members. This webinar will be held on Zoom Webinar; registration is required.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for 2 hours of CE credit. This webinar will be recorded; you must register in order to receive a copy of the recording.
We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, please contact RRLC at least five business days ahead of the program you’d like accommodations for.
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