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Peer Education And Community Empowerment | P.E.A.C.E.

Application deadline to be a trainer for Fall 2008 and beyond is April 18th, 2008.

Where do you think UC Davis falls on the road map to undoing racism, sexism, homophobia, and to promoting a truly egalitarian living and learning environment? Are you ready to help facilitate positive changes on that journey? Skills such as respect, tolerance, and inclusion are essential components of well-rounded leadership, group work, and in creating and maintaining a professional environment. This Winter 2007 quarter, the CCC offers P.E.A.C.E..


Peer Education And Community Empowerment (P.E.A.C.E.)
P.E.A.C.E., an acronym for Peer Education And Community Empowerment, is a student to student train the trainer program dedicated to undoing racism, sexism, homophobia, and to promoting a welcoming, respectful, living and learning environment. P.E.A.C.E. offers UCD students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to engage in meaningful and productive conversations about diversity issues, facilitated by fellow UCD students. Forums are open to all student organizations, departments, residential groups, and other UCD affiliates.

What P.E.A.C.E. Does For You!
You select a topic! Give us 3 weeks minimum advance notice, 3 potential dates and times (including length of program), then our interns and volunteers can create a program tailored to your needs from our modules listed below:

I. Ally Development
"Hi my name is Susan and I wanted to let you know that I am an ally!" Always be cognizant of the fact that you are creating and sharing a safe space that you will occupy with persons whose lived experiences have touched your life. This is a lifelong process that involves patience, education, skills, action, passion and sincerity. Embrace the process and become an ally.

II. Unpacking Privilege
The history of this country has been built on the premise of privilege: certain groups either consciously or unconsciously exert different types of power over subordinate or target groups. As a result of privilege, many target groups suffer from internalized oppression, which can alter their role and view of themselves within the larger scope of society. Unpacking privilege can be difficult because many of us unconsciously walk in our privilege. Once we have discovered that we are armed with privilege it is up to us to critically examine and deconstruct privilege.

III. Understanding Racism
Race and racism have given way to topics such as institutionalized racism, identity development, stereotypes, reverse racisms and continued systems of oppression. Part of understanding race is a lived experience for those in the agent group. For society at large we must not picture ourselves a color blind society ignoring what race has created, rather we must move towards a critical understanding of awareness of race in order to combat the systems it has created.

IV. Cross Cultural Communications and Competency
In order for us to move to the end of the spectrum in which we have a high level of cultural competence we must pass through three central stages. These stages include awareness, knowledge, and skill. Being culturally competent is not simply a descriptive adjective or title but a lifestyle that is reinforced by our own practices and actions. It is a conscious process that we as individuals, groups, systems, and institutions engage in order to effectively communicate and interact with diverse communities, populations, issues and cultures.

V. Gender and Sexuality
Exploration of the connection of gender role stereotypes and homophobia/biphobia and how the participants' own actions and inactions contribute to creating and maintaining homophobic/ biphobic/ heterosexist environments.

VI. Activism, Advocacy, and Social Justice
This piece is about taking action and moving beyond theory and practice and taking action. It is one thing for UC Davis to be a campus full of awareness for the injustices that exist within our campus community and the world in general. It is another to be able to effectively rally for change. Activism and Advocacy take our understanding of social justice to another level. We need to learn skills such as lobbying, media relations, coalition building, ally development, and the fundamentals of a movement in order to advocate to our full potential.

For more information, or to schedule a workshop per the instructions above, please contact Director, Steven Baissa at ccc@ucdavis.edu or call (530) 752-4287.

Want to become a P.E.A.C.E. Educator?
Are you ready to help facilitate positive changes on that journey? We invite you to engage in advancing social justice on our campus by becoming a PEACE Trainer! This is an excellent volunteer opportunity for any undergraduate, graduate and professional student.

Required for P.E.A.C.E. educators is a two-day intensive training retreat in (Fall) and (Winter) to prepare peer educators for their performance role. During the training, educators are given an introduction to tools needed to present. Also, peer educators are introduced to a new script and additional information and workshops techniques.

ccc@ucdavis.edu or call (530) 752-4287.

Current Volunteers
Name/MajorClass of
Dolores Gomez-Locke
Philosophy, Sociology
2008
Erica Oropeza
Sociology and Women Studies
2009
Domnique Littleton
Psychology, African American & African Studies
2009
Hanh Le
CRD
2009