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NCRC Brings Together Countries Leading Authors in Virtual Event The Del Mar Times quotes President of NCRC, Steve Dinkin;“Now is the time for all of us as Americans to commit ourselves to dismantling systemic racism and understanding the roots of the injustices people of color face,”

NCRC Hosting Important Online Event about "A Path Forward" “A Path Forward,” a virtual event that’s free and open to the public, will be held on Thursday, Aug. 20 from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m Pacific time. Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at CBS News and author of They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives, will moderate a discussion between Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Anti-Racist, and Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Both of these books have become fixtures on The New York Times Best Sellers list.

Press Release: NCRC to Host National Conversation on Race with NY Times Bestselling Authors The National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) will bring leading authors, scholars and journalists together for a national online conversation about race in America and bridging our country’s political divide. The “A Path Forward” virtual event on Thursday, Aug. 20 from 7 p.m.- 8:15 p.m. PST will feature an engaging discussion with two New York Times #1 bestselling authors and leading national scholars whose works have been made all the more relevant by recent protests against police brutality: Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Anti-Racist, and Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at CBS News and author of They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives, will moderate.

National Conflict Resolution Center to host national conversation on race with best-selling authors Ranch & Coast Magazine features NCRC's upcoming A Path Forward Virtual Event in their upcoming benefits section.

Featured Article: From Bystander to Upstander Chief Learning Officer is a multimedia publication focused on the importance, benefits and advancements of a properly trained workforce. This feature article explains how bystander communication training works, and provides insight into how workplaces can prevent future incidents of harassment and create a more equitable, healthy culture. The National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) has created a version of its most popular workshop, The Bystander Challenge, which is compliant with state requirements (SB 778 for employees and CA AB 1825 for supervisors) for workplace anti-harassment training. In addition to covering the required curriculum around harassment and how to identify it, stop it and report it, this course also examines a bystander’s role in decreasing inappropriate communication and behavior in the workplace, so that harassment is less likely to occur in the first place.

National Conflict Resolution Center to host national conversation on race with best-selling authors SD Metro features NCRC's upcoming A Path Forward Virtual Event in their daily business report.

Arrest Rates For Latinx Students Decline, But SD Unified Students Still Call For Defunding Police Francisco Carbajal, the director of alternative juvenile justice at the NCRC, outlines the effectiveness of restorative justice to KPBS. “We’ve seen cases come from San Diego school police where we have shown that recidivism completely drops when students are being diverted to community-led opportunities rather than concentrating on traditional punishments," Francisco said.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Are Good for California Businesses The Vice President of Lawyers Club of San DIego mentions NCRC training that teaches bystanders to intervene before incivility escalates into harassment. Lawyers Club of San Diego working with NCRC and the San Diego Union-Tribune to encourage San Diego companies to combat workplace harassment and ensure equal pay through the Workplace Equity & Civility Initiative.

Mask hysteria: The return of the defiant and compliant NCRC's President, Steve Dinkin, discusses handling mask conflicts in his weekly "A Path Forward" column.

NCRC to Help San Diegans in Rent Disputes The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) has granted the National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) funding to mediate all commercial and residential rent payment disputes related to eviction moratoriums in San Diego County. This announcement comes as San Diego extended rules halting residential and commercial evictions due to COVID-19 financial hardship through the end of September, and as the county’s unemployment rate sits at 15 percent—further compounding the region’s pre-existing housing affordability crisis. As a response to these difficult times, the nonprofit organization will be offering mediators from their West Coast Resolution Group to resolve complex commercial cases at a reduced rate, and community mediators to assist with residential renter-landlord disputes at no cost.