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- EIN 68-0431904
- (707) 578-5420
- 703 2nd Street Suite 257 Santa Rosa CA 95404-6504 USA
- www.listeningforachange.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Cultural & Ethnic Awareness, Humanities, International, International Human Rights
Mission: To create acceptance of human diversity in our community
Programs: Community listening project - brings people together from diverse cultural backgrounds to come to know one another as neighbors. It trains volunteer community members in the art of oral history and engages them in interviewing their neighbors. Interviewing people of different backgrounds helps to heal fractures and misunderstandings caused by socio-economic, racial, ethnic diversity, etc and to forge a cohesive community identity.
neighborhood listening project - is an oral history interview for grades 4-12. Students interview adult community members who overcame difficulties or neighbors with stories to share. The program fosters youth connectedness, improves communications skills, and promotes healthy social emotional development that leads to pro-social behaviors. Oral history interviewing is an effective way to teach communication skills and promotes youth connectedness.