Refugee Education for Awareness, Change, and Hope©

REACH © (Refugee Education for Awareness, Change, and Hope) is a unique curriculum designed to educate America’s youth about refugee experiences and refugee-related issues. REACH© challenges youth to think critically about refugee-related issues, encourages empathy toward refugees and their experiences, and motivates youth to “REACH out” and befriend peers who have undergone refugee-related experiences.

• Developmentally appropriate units for grades 4-12
  
• Week-long, ready-to-teach units
  
• Accompanying video: Creating a Refuge From Bullying
  

Units available:

• Elementary (grades 4-5): history, geography, and civics (one-week/subject)
• Middle school (grades 6-8): history, geography, and civics (one-week/subject)
  
• High school (grades 9-12): history, geography, and civics (one-week/subject)
  
• Align with national academic standards (identified in each lesson plan)
  
• For Colorado educators, lesson plans specifically identify Colorado Academic Standards
  
• Student and educator evaluation tools
• Reflect current global issues and events related to refugees

About the video
Creating a Refuge From Bullying is a 23-minute DVD video created by Denver filmmaker Lauren Swain (www.mindseyeworld.com). This video explores the refugee condition as a product of bullying on a global scale. Refugee children have experienced persecution in all its forms—causing them to lose their heritage, culture, and sense of security. When refugee children enter the American school system, they are often re-traumatized as they face a new form of “otherness”. They are often bullied or excluded based on their lack of English, mode of dress, or lack of cultural savvy. Creating a Refuge from Bullying speaks to this exclusion through the voices of Amjaad and Il Gude, an Iraqi boy and Somali Bantu girl, as they describe their treatment by American peers while trying to assimilate into American School systems and culture.

African Community Center is a program of ECDC, a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization engaged in social service, humanitarian, and educational activities.

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