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grandfamilies
Promoting active voter registration
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and voting to support candidates who are

Kinship caregivers should
share their experiences being
discriminated against, profiled,
or even arrested unjustly.

advocates for social justice and change;
Participating and learning from discussions about racial inequalities that
Watch the news together
may challenge our strategies and make us
as a family. Point out the differuncomfortable;
ence between peaceful protest
Becoming better advocates through
and opportunism to do wrong.
increased engagement and involvement
Let them know some
of Brown and Black people in our policy
basics that may keep you safe
decisions;
in the street; to avoid some of
Recognizing trauma-informed practhe police profiling if stopped
tices to address the underlying mental
health disparities that perpetuate disadeven if you did not do anything
vantages; and
wrong:
Engaging our white grandparents as
Do not resist.
partners in discussing racism as a blight
Having 'The Talk': How Families Prepare Black Children for Police Interactions
Do what they say.
on their children's future and America's
Do not scream back.
Americans, especially males, have to be ever vigilant
promise.
Do not talk back.
to their surroundings just to stay alive. But, children
Together, we can use current conditions of a physiDo not reach in your pocket or for anything.
must do what they need to do to live another day!
cal and social justice pandemic to mobilize all grandMemorize the badge numbers.
Hopefully, another day will allow for a court hearing of families for systemic change beyond the protests.
Finally, if you get arrested, go peacefully and call
the truth.
home ASAP.
African American Grandfamilies: Helping Children
Thrive through Connection to Family and Culture And once grandfamilies learn how to keep themA system cannot fail those
selves and their children to stay alive, we must stand
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beside and with our grandfamilies to address the hisit was never meant to protect.
for Fact sheet Toolkit
toric and systematic inequities that have marginalized
W. E. B. DuBois
and demeaned African Americans. For agencies like
Dr. Anita Rogers has developed and promoted
Generations United, it also means that we rededicate
intergenerational mentoring, kinship care
These guidelines may not be fair, but they may
our efforts to help grandfamilies and the agencies that
programs, and nonviolent policies throughout
the country. She works with Generations United
save a life. Even if these steps are heeded, they may
serve them by:
on issue affecting grandfamilies.
not be enough. Yes, it does seem unfair that African

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