PLATFORM : Reducing Tensions

Our program will train a multicultural pool of participants in such areas as cultural awareness and prejudice reduction, resource-building skills and conflict resolution-collaborative problem solving.

Following the training, participants will be given the opportunity to analyze the human-relations needs in their communities, and plan and implement an action plan to address one or more of the issues they have identified. It is the hope of the project that once specific issues have been identified, the skills gained in the training will better enable participants to generate concrete strategies for improving relations in their communities.

The overall goal of the program, therefore, is to empower individuals and their communities with background, skills and knowledge to enable them to prioritize human-relation issues in their communities and to develop proactive strategies to address these issues.