National Coalition Building Institute

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Basic Information

Address: 8403 Colesville Road – Suite 1100 Silver Spring MD 20910
Phone Number: 240.638.2813
Person of Contact: Cherie Brown

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Additional Information

K-12 - Building Caring Schools - Anti-Bullying Work

Welcoming Diversity - Building a Caring School Environment Workshop
This NCBI Workshop consists of a series of incremental, experiential activities where school staff and students begin to understand and appreciate each other's differences toward changing minds and hearts - Take a moment to watch FH_edited1 (Converted).mov>

  • Learn approaches for encouraging respect and teamwork among all staff and students
  • Expand their understanding and appreciation of the diversity within their school
  • Identify the misinformation that contributes to prejudice and teasing
  • Learn new information that builds respect among diverse groups
  • Build skills for effectively reducing teasing, harassment, and prejudice
Preventing Anti-Bullying and School Violence Workshop

The NCBI Anti-Bullying and School Violence Prevention Workshop empower young people to create and maintain healthy, nonviolent schools and communities. Through a guided set of experiential exercises, young people learn to -

  • Identify ways to prevent bullying and violence
  • Recognize the nature and causes of violence
  • Heal from the effects of violence
  • Use nonviolent intervention techniques
  • Develop a school action plan to build safer and more inclusive schools
NCBI Program for Elementary and Middle Schools
The NCBI Program for Elementary and Middle Schools trains staff, parents, and students to teach an elementary version of the Welcoming Diversity: Building a Caring School Environment workshop. This age-appropriate positive youth enhancement curriculum for grades K-8 is designed to be taught in short modules as part of an elementary school classroom or after-school activity.

NCBI Programs to Reduce Racial Disparity in Schools
The ACLU sued the Antioch, California Unified School District for Racial Disparities in Discipline. NCBI was written into the Settlement Agreement to work with Antioch, as part of the work with Antioch over the next five (5) years NCBI trained hundreds of high school students to lead Diversity & Inclusion workshops for their peers and since has introduced this or similar programs in dozens of high schools across the country. NCBI's Train the Trainer program has won numerous awards across the country and is the only program we are aware of where students are trained to then lead anti-bias work in their schools. Here's the Antioch Report

Train-the-Trainer Leadership Program for Middle and High Schools

The NCBI Two-Day Leadership Training for Middle and High Schools trains students to lead the Welcoming Diversity: Building a Caring School Environment Workshop or the Preventing School Violence Workshop. NCBI works with the school to identify critical issues related to inclusion and safety, including:

  • Targeting of minority students
  • Anti-gay bullying
  • Gang violence
  • Gender harassment
  • Other types of mistreatment and violence
Student trainers become a resource team for their school, developing programs and strategies to build a safer and more caring school learning environment. High school student leaders present the Welcoming Diversity Workshop and the Preventing School Violence Workshop in their schools and may also be a resource to the middle and elementary schools in their districts. This two-day training has been successfully implemented in hundreds of schools and universities in the United States and Europe.
Take a moment to watch these Poignant Testimonials from some of the teen students NCBI has done Training with - Interview NCBI Excerpts