Cultural Diversity Club

CULTURAL DIVERSITY CLUB

Phone: 203.315.7834

Mission

Raises the levels of awareness of the many dimensions of diversity-race, gender, weight, religion, language, albleism, class, sexual orientation, etc.-throughout the BHS Community;

Offers training seminars each semester that feature awareness and self-identity exercises for participants who return to their classes and report the results;

Develops an elementary school Prejudice Reduction Program to help initiate diversity acceptance;

Produces assembly programs at BHS and other schools that focus on Club diversity goals for the year; and

Plans to facilitate seminars, field trips and speakers for the BHS Community that contribute to diversity awareness issues.

Community Service Projects

Elementary Prejudice Reduction Program

WIS 8th Grade Assembly

PTA

Faculty Meetings

State Conferences

Community Service Projects and Fundraisers 2007

Parade of Nations Assembly
Awareness Week
In-School Seminars for advisory reps.

Cultural Diversity Club exists and provides a focus for all members of the BHS Community to:

increase our knowledge and awareness of our own biases and to take personal responsibility for combating prejudice and discrimination;

challenge the stereotypes and biases which inhibit intergroup understanding and to provide techniques for combating these stereotypes and biases;

discuss the complexities of prejudice and identify ways members of our community have experienced prejudice in their lives; and

develop an action plan to promote acceptance, heighten communication and the appreciation of differences.

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