Community-Based Inter-Group Relations Programs

Negative messages which people receive about people from other groups are often communicated in community settings, and those community settings, programs can break through the cycle of stereotypes and prejudice. ICP helped to develop one such program between Jewish youth in the Harrisburg Hebrew High program and African American youth of the the St. Paul’s Missionary Baptist Church. This program brought together two group which normally would not interact with one another. ICP seeks to create partnerships such as this one which unite divergent sectors of local communities. Any interest parties should contact Shalom Staub at ICP.

ICP can create programming which encourages dialogue between groups using a Study Circle forum. Study Circles is a small group which meets approximately six times for a facilitated discussion about diversity issues affecting a community. ICP provides facilitation and activities that maximize the group’s potential to discuss multiple perspectives and generate a myriad of ideas for addressing the issues at hand.