• A COMMUNITY OF DIFFERENCE offers social service workers, volunteers and staffs of community organizations - as well as civic leaders - skills and strategies to work together more effectively.

This program helps participants:

• Understand their own biases and how they affect their interactions with others
• Develop a common understanding about diversity
• Appreciate the need for respectful relations among diverse groups
• Develop concrete action plans for implementation

A COMMUNITY OF DIFFERENCE'S specially designed training program for law enforcement professionals (police cadets, experienced officers, and civilian personnel) helps:

• Develop awareness and skills for working within a highly pluralistic society
• Identify and report hate crimes
• Examine how anti-bias skills affect law enforcement work, especially regarding hate crimes
• Examine appropriate responses to on-the-job situations, using case studies and large and small discussion groups

For more information, or to find out how your local organizations and agencies can implement A COMMUNITY OF DIFFERENCE, contact your ADL Regional Office , ADL National Headquarters (212) 885-7700, or by E-mail .