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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.

Masks: How Body Language Can Influence the Conversation How can you avoid getting into a squabble with someone over a mask? It's a dilemma many face during a simple walk along the sidewalk. Steve Dinkin, President of the National Conflict Resolution Center, says that it's really your body language that can send a very powerful message.

Experts Advise How to Discuss Unrest with Children Steve Dinkin, President of NCRC, gives advice on discussing social injustices and unrest with children in a constructive way in this front page SDUT article.

San Diego Needs Dialogue and Emerging Leaders San Diego Union-Tribune's Diane Bell interviews Steve Dinkin, President of NCRC, on addressing current complex social issues.

Convocan a la comunidad hispana de San Diego a círculos virtuales para aprender a ayudarse unos a otros El National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) convoca a la comunidad hispana a sumarse a los círculos virtuales y capacitaciones que presentará gratis este mes y en español;