Resources

As we head into the holiday season, members of the Shaker Engagement Collaborative are collecting information on needs in our community. 

While we list all mental health resources in our Community Resource document to the right, we are also highlighting them here:

• Mental Health Resource Links
• Adult Emotional Support and Mental Health Resources

In March 2020, NewONEShaker started compiling this Community Resource Catalog for the community during the pandemic outbreak. 

Please send us new resources or updates HERE.

The African American Family sometimes looks different than the standard family structure. S.A.M.S. aims to support African American Mothers and helps to provide a sense of community, togetherness and well-being while supporting the community as a whole. 

A quick guide to resources via our schools, the city, and local advocacy groups.

Weekly, S.A.M.S. Moms and the City of Shaker Heights create and distribute Neighbor Notes, a weekly printed flyer with community updates that is distributed throughout Shaker Heights. 

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a unique early-year book gifting program that mails a brand new, age-appropriate book to enrolled children every month from birth until five years of age. All children in Cuyahoga County qualify.

Enroll your child today via the Literacy Cooperative today.

Since 2012, Be Strong Families has partnered with organizations, systems and communities to help families grow stronger from the inside out. 

Our community has a number of Little Free Libraries, where you can take a book or leave a book.

Find these "LFL's" via this Google Map or this Google Sheet.

 Shaker alums Nya Hardaway and Amani Hill have founded this Shaker-based mutual aid group. 

Learn more: Mutual aid networks allow for community action in the form of sharing resources and fundraising. 

This September 15 webinar focused on the ongoing issues that perpetuate school segregation in Cleveland's East Side inner ring suburbs. Information page includes resources, event slide decks, and access to a video recording of the webinar.

Document compiled and curated  by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein .

 Document created by: 

Anna Stamborski, M. Div Candidate (2022),  Nikki Zimmermann, M. Div candidate (2021), and Bailie Gregory, M. Div, M.S. Ed. 

Steps recommended in this article by Medium.

President Obama joined former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and local and national leaders in a conversation moderated by Campaign Zero co-founder Brittany Packnett Cunningham.

From videos to workshops, there are many ways that adults and the youth can become allies engaged in anti-racism.

Events: Check their calendar for webinars that benefit educators, parents, and our community.

"We are done dying" is the theme of this campaign. Change starts when policies do.  Take action.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture introduces "Talking About Race." This web portal addresses racism and the desire to promote equity and inclusion. Sections for educators, parents/guardians, and allies committed to equity.

This group of community members distributed over 500 BLM signs. We can do more - by getting engaged, and staying "in the loop." Leadership Team Member Lisa Vahey developed this list of links and resources, and consider joining the Shaker Heights Learning & Acting email group for updates.

Keep abreast of what's happening in our city through two resources:

* The Shaker chapter of the League of Women Voters Observer Reports for all city meetings

* Official agendas and minutes from the City of Shaker Heights

Board of Education meetings occur on the second Tuesday of EVERY month at 6:00 p.m.

You can find meeting locations (currently virtual during the pandemic) via the district's Master Calendar.

This list is curated by a local social worker in Shaker Heights.

Melissa DePino and Michelle Saahene started From Privilege to Progress, a national movement to desegregate the public conversation about race. The movement calls on all Americans to join on the path to antiracism by learning, speaking up in their everyday lives and amplifying the voices of people of color.

Shaker City Councilman Sean Malone leads the Human Relations Task Force. This is a roster of organizations that are working on a new racial equity subcommittee.

In response to violence against people of color in 2020, Greater Good Magazine compiled numerous resources to learn about racism, how we can build bridges, and resources for parents and educators.

Institute for Restorative Practices

Critical Race Theory & Restorative Justice 

Little Books of Justice & Peacebuilding

Restorative Policing: Pollard, Charles. (2001) 

The Folded Map Project visually connects Chicago residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago. It's an enlightening look into racial segregation.

Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans "...eating, walking or generally 'living while black.'" Brought to you by Ted Talk.

Teaching Tolerance provides a number of helpful articles designed to encourage white educators to learn about and incorporate anti-racist practices in the classroom.

Anti-Racism Daily offers regular overviews on current events and apply an anti-racism lens. Learn how practices embedded in our politics, criminal justice system, and workplaces enforce systemic oppression – and what you can do about it. 

Teaching Tolerance interviewed Dr. Debbie Reese, an educator and registered member of the  Nambé Pueblo, who suggests books and teaching methods that accurately depict current Native issues and correct common misconceptions often taught in the classroom.

We are also curating additional resources HERE.

In these short videos by Teaching Tolerance, historians and scholars explore the undertaught history of African and Indigenous enslavement.