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Counselorsâ Supplement
There are few established approaches to treating extremism from a mental health perspective. This short supplement to the Parents & Caregivers Guide presents strategies for mental health workers to address radicalization in their practice. By drawing on established treatments for other maladaptive behaviors, and from the empirical literature of radicalization, it offers mental health practitioners…
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Educatorsâ Supplement
Educators have a unique role to play in recognizing, preventing, and intervening in radicalization to violent extremism. And yet, they are also some of the most under-resourced workers facing these problems. This short guide for educators supplements the Parents & Caregivers Guide to offer strategies specifically tailored for the needs of those working in classroomsâboth…
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Assessments & Impact
It isnât enough to widely distribute resources like the Parents & Caregivers Guide and the Building Networks Guide. They must also be shown to work, to improve the ability of parents and caregivers; coaches and mentors; school counselors and mental health practitioners to spot and intervene in cases of potential radicalization. PERIL and SPLC are…
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The Parents & Caregivers Guide to Online Youth Radicalization
It can be all too easy for people to become radicalized without even leaving home. The proliferation of extremist spaces and content online has created new and powerful avenues for radicalization, especially for young people who are often the targets of radical-right propaganda. Thatâs why, in partnership with American Universityâs Polarization and Extremism Research and…
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SPLC offers guide on immigrant studentsâ right to a public education
The Southern Poverty Law Center today released a guide designed to help families and advocates of immigrant children defend a studentâs right to a public education. The guide â Protecting Immigrant Studentsâ Rights to a Public Education â explains the legal framework and rights of immigrant children and families to enroll and participate fully in…
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Donofrio v. Duval County Public Schools and Scott Schneider
After Florida teacher Amy Donofrio refused a request by school officials to remove a Black Lives Matter flag hanging outside her high school classroom, she was reassigned to nonteaching duties and banned from her schoolâs campus. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its co-counsel, Scott ⢠Wagner and Associates, P.A., filed a federal lawsuit to uphold the rights of…