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Camp Scatico affirms that Black Lives Matter. We are dedicated to the ongoing process of creating a more equitable camp world, in Elizaville and beyond. We are ready to do the work.
As part of this ongoing process, Scatico is grateful to be working with Simone Gamble, a long time camp professional and the founder of OAAARS, an organization that helps businesses find consultants of color committed to work rooted in social justice, equity, and education. OAAARS will help guide us as we work to make Scatico look more like, as the Summer Camp Society puts it, “the world we want our kids to live in”: a place of radical inclusivity, tolerance and kindness; an actively anti-racist and de-colonized space where all children and staff can be the best version of themselves; not a bubble that exists outside the world, but a force — and a future generation— that can change the world for the better.
SOCIAL + RACIAL JUSTICE RESOURCES
PODCASTS + ARTICLES
FOR CAMPERS, PARENTS, ALUMNI + STAFF
THOUGHTS ON BEING BLACK AT CAMP- A blog post from a black, female former head counselor at a YMCA camp.
FOR CAMPERS + PARENTS
SO GET ME: The Alphabet Rockers podcast for families making change!
FOR PARENTS, ALUMNI + STAFF
CODE SWITCH: The fearless conversations about race that you’ve been waiting for!
SOCIAL JUSTICE + CAMP -- TALKING ABOUT IT- An article from 2016, about a camp in Ferguson, but with lessons for this moment.
WEBSITES + ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW
S’More Melanin (@smoremelanin)
A destination for resources, historic context & connectivity for BIPOC in the camp world.
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Talking About Race Resource Page
EmbraceRace (@embracerace)- Multiracial community of parents, teachers, experts, who support each other to meet the challenges that race poses to our children, families, and communities.
The Conscious Kid- Education, research and policy organization dedicated to reducing bias and promoting positive identity development in youth.
Black Youth Project- A platform that highlights the voices and ideas of Black millennials. Through knowledge, voice, and action, they work to empower and uplift the lived experiences of young Black Americans today.
OAAARS (@oaaars)-A people of the global majority-led consultancy that provides social justice-centered training and education to create safer and inclusive work environments while cultivating change agents in the workplace and beyond.
BOOKS
In an effort to support local bookstores, all of the links lead to purchasing on Bookshop.org.
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation
Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
Recommendations from other members of the Scatico Community
THOUGHTS, IDEAS, OR RECOMMENDATIONS?
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