Resources

In March 2020, NewONEShaker started compiling this Community Resource Catalog to the community during the pandemic outbreak. If you have any updates, please let us know.

Members of the Shaker Engagement Collaborative have banded together to provide a range of youth activities that are virtual or using safe-distancing protocols. Costs range from FREE to tuition-based.

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. 

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.

Show your support for our black and brown neighbors. 

* Ordering your sign is quick and easy.

* Get active with the Put a Stake in the Ground, a program happening in our community June and July.

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.

They do so through social media campaigns and as speakers who create awareness and inspire action toward racial justice. 

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.