SERVICES

Community Enhancement Services

PREVENT HATE offers a variety of customized services to communities to strengthen and promote their efforts to:  

• Foster peaceful coexistence
• Build empowerment
• Promote social development
• Raise awareness

PREVENT HATE uses integrated strategies to develop custom-made programs that improve the ability of communities to access resources and build relationships with key organizations, agencies, and communities. All of our services include close consultation with community representatives to determine the best way we may be able to meet their needs as they see fit.

PREVENT HATE’s charges a reasonable fee for our services. However, since we do not want economics to stand in the way of community development, financial assistance is available to groups and communities that qualify.

Below is a list of PREVENT HATE’s services.

Program Development and Consulting

PREVENT HATE provides communities and municipalities with skilled professionals who work intimately with them to develop projects and programs to:

• increase awareness about their issues,
• construct strategic partnerships with others,
• enhance services to socially disadvantaged groups,
• build sustainability through integrated strategies,
• respond to occurrences of bias, harassment, and conflict,
• improve intergroup relations.

To ensure successful outcomes on behalf of the identified stakeholders, PREVENT HATE:

• Works directly with community representatives to ensure programs and projects are developed to their specifications;
• Acts as intimate consultants to government agencies to improve their ability to promote community relations, defend human rights, modernize law enforcement, implement integrated strategies for socioeconomic development, and provide services to socially disadvantaged groups;
• Designs original events and programs that motivate cross-cultural involvement;
• Facilitates introductions between community representatives and leaders in other communities;
• Cultivates coalitions and alliances through strategic networking activities;
• Develops effective communication and advocacy strategies to assist community leaders engage other communities-of-interest constructively;
• Directs educational campaigns to raise awareness about communities and their issues;
• Creates individualized workshops and training programs on hate crimes, civil/human rights, and community relations;
• Develops culturally-specific resource materials, including a list of other agencies and organizations, that can assist in the defense of a community’s human rights, or with community enhancement;
• Facilitates reconciliation and resolution of intergroup conflict as needed.

Public Awareness and Outreach

PREVENT HATE works with community stakeholders to increase awareness about their issues with methods that cultivate social involvement. We work with community representatives to construct events and materials that build empowerment, limit social isolation, and encourage the development of new allies, through education and outreach to segments of the public. PREVENT HATE’s public awareness and outreach services focus on promoting a community’s message to foster cross-cultural understanding and empathy. To do this, PREVENT HATE:

• Works closely with stakeholders to develop a strategic plan to build public interest and awareness;
• Provides a high level of assistance and guidance in the planning and support of the development of an original event to showcase a community issue(s) about any of the following:
  • Human rights abuse; institutionalized discrimination; victimization of hate crimes, terrorism, genocide, social isolation, slavery, (or other forms of systemic bias-motivated abuse); history of altruistic behavior toward others; reconciliation efforts and successes; overcoming prejudice; courageousness in the face of death or oppression to sanctify human rights; courage to stick up for the unpopular; intergroup cooperation; or other forms of prosocial behavior committed by, or on behalf of, others.
    
• Facilitates community representation in a conference, symposium, or event as panel members, guest speakers, or cosponsors;
• Constructs a high quality event, symposium, or conference on behalf of a community, including pertinent VIP guest lists and participants;
• Introduces community representatives to, and arrange private meetings with, various leaders in California;
• Provides opportunities to raise awareness through strategic networking activities, roundtable discussions, and receptions;
• Conducts campaigns that highlight, and stimulate interest in, a community’s culture, historical insights, and/or achievements;
• Works closely with stakeholders to develop educational projects that raise awareness about their struggles, successes, and/or altruistic behavior toward others;
• Develops educational and awareness materials;
• Features cross-cultural cooperative endeavors on the PREVENT HATE website.

Intercommunal Relations Development
Sustainability Through Reciprocity™ – Cooperating to Make a Better World

PREVENT HATE recognizes the importance of collaborative, reciprocal relationships to disrupt discrimination and enhance social development and relations. PREVENT HATE offers communities integrated strategies to cultivate coexistence and foster reconciliation between two or more communities or groups in conflict by providing them with opportunities to cooperate on projects that shine light on each other’s humanity, as well as to elevate each other’s way of life. To do this, PREVENT HATE:

• Identifies which organizations are most likely to be receptive to a particular community and interested in its causes;
• Identifies and initiates communication with relevant entities with whom a community is likely to build mutually beneficial relationships;
• Sets up meetings with leaders from different communities;
• Develops a relevant and entertaining “ice-breaker” event with other ethnic, religious, and/or community organizations;
• Devises cooperative enterprises in which members of different communities work together, including identifying ways to share and leverage resources with each other;
• Consults on methods of economic development that build cooperative relations;
• Cultivates strategic allies to defend a community’s human rights, and/or to increase peaceful coexistence;
• Offers innovative conflict resolution and reconciliation activities;
• Organizes cross-cultural alliance-building exercises.

Diaspora Community Empowerment

PREVENT HATE works with diaspora community leaders to increase their ability to improve social conditions locally and in their home countries through humanitarian outreach, enhancement of democratic institutions, and methods that promote intergroup relations and socioeconomic development. We work with diaspora communities to:

• create a strategic plan of community empowerment,
• construct networking activities,
• gain introductions to local leaders with whom they can foster awareness and build key enterprises that are pertinent to social development projects locally and in the nations from which they originate.

PREVENT HATE works closely with community leaders to strengthen their influence and outreach in ways that promote internal unity, as well as in alliance with other communities. We elevate the ability of diaspora community members to function as grassroots liaisons on behalf of their homelands by providing them with crucial tools and resources that allow them to take leadership roles in the promotion of development, peace, and equality through cooperative endeavors. To do this, PREVENT HATE:

• Works closely with community stakeholders to develop a strategic plan to elevate socioeconomic conditions where they currently live or in their homelands;
• Provides communities with access to the greater Los Angeles infrastructure and its resources by establishing relevant meetings and roundtable events with pertinent leaders;
• Devises networking programs that build strategic partnerships with relevant agencies and entities;
• Develops experiential training programs that improve community relations for agencies from their home communities while intimately involving diaspora community members as project leaders;
• Works with communities to improve democratic institutions in their home societies that foster equality and intergroup relations;
• Offers consultation on modern methods of social development;
• Assists diaspora community members with the development of culturally relevant awareness materials that can be used to promote peaceful relations and social development locally and in their home societies;
• Conducts team-building exercises to help unify diaspora community members.

Workshops

PREVENT HATE offers education and customized workshops in the following areas, including materials:

• Hate crimes protection and available resources;
• Civil and human rights safeguards from bias and discrimination;
• Effective outreach and awareness methods to foster cross-cultural relations;
• Civic engagement;
• Community safety;
• Sustainable development and/or community relations for disadvantaged communities.

Training and Development

PREVENT HATE builds custom-made, international training and networking programs that:

• enhance services for socially disadvantaged groups;
• promote social development;
• foster public-private partnerships;
• focus upon sustainability;
• build the community affairs skills of municipal officials;
• develop democratic institutions where required.

Programs include consultation and an exchange of skilled delegations between internationals and California (normally Los Angeles) to interface and work closely with local professionals, agencies, institutions, organizations, and communities. Training often creates strategic partnerships, and facilitates the leverage of education and resources between communities. PREVENT HATE training programs provide best practices to:

• suppress bias and foster integration;
• enhance social development;
• promote community relations;
• foster sustainable development;
• improve civic engagement with diverse populations;
• defend human rights.

For all training programs, PREVENT HATE works very closely with diverse agencies and organizations to plan and execute highly interactive, individualized workshops. Training programs are experiential, community-based efforts consisting of hands-on field work coupled with relevant education.