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Students from Durfee High School and
Bishop Connelly High School attended
the first of five sessions that will be provided to various groups of
youth around the city to learn how to confront discrimination and
prejudice in their own lives and the lives of their fellow students held
on November 30, 2016 at the Fall
River Boys and Girls Club. The training is a project of United
Neighbors of Fall River and Partners and
was led by Social Capital Inc. AmeriCorps Jay Wong who took the group through a series of exercises that illustrated
examples of bias that they encounter and then
asked them to think of a variety of strategies to effectively confront
those situations. Once they complete the training, students will be taking an
active role within their schools and organizations to make a difference in
how people respond to instances of prejudice and discrimination. Click
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(Top
row) Project sponsor and Executive Director of United
Neighbors of Fall River,
Wendy Garf-Lipp, left, talks about some of the situations of
discrimination that people commonly confront as Project Leader Jay
Wong, right, listens at the event held at the Fall
River Boys and Girls Club. (Row two) Fall River City Councilor Richard
Cabeceiras
talks about the importance of the project with Jay Wong, Sean Connell,
Eric Poulin of the Bristol
County District Attorney's Office
and Wendy Garf-Lipp. (Row three) Mr. Poulin and Ms. Garf-Lipp look
over a questionnaire as retired Durfee teacher Susan Phenix
responds to students Eliominia Pires and Da'nasia Norwood as they look
over the questionnaire. (Row four) Councilor Cabeceiras responds to
Sean Connell as Ethan Botelho looks over the questionnaire. (Bottom
row) Nick Simbro and Project Leader Jay Wong listen to Sean Connell
during the discussion.
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