Growing Racial and Cultural Equity (GRACE) TeamCharge for the PSD GRACE TeamThe Board of Prairie Star District has claimed an anti-racist identity for the District. We know that changing institutions requires understanding structural levels and function and understanding the stages through which organizations move to become ant-racist. The PSD Board began this work by engaging in a day long workshop on Equipping Institutions to Dismantle Racism facilitated by MCARI (Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative) on Friday August 25, 2006. To this end, the PSD GRACE Team is charged by the PSD Board of Directors to first, research anti-racism work being done by other districts in the UUA and also to identify the assistance and support available from various offices at the UUA as well as from other possible sources in our region. The next step in the charge is to create a plan for developing a systemic analysis of racism within the district and then to develop a plan to educate the district member churches to become conscious of the ways in which the district documents, structures, and practices maintain privilege and access primarily for white people on the journey to intentionally creating an anti-racist / anti-oppression / multicultural identity for the Prairie Star District, district staff and leadership and ultimately the congregations of the PSD. Recent ActivitiesThe first project the Team will be an inventory of the congregations of the PSD to identify strengths, challenges and visions in the District in the arena of anti-racism, anti-oppression and multiculturalism. This inventory is scheduled to be completed by the end of the July 2008. |