Challenge Racism Booklet
Challenge Racism Project: What-to-do Steps Booklet
This booklet is a recommendation booklet compiled by the Women’s Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre of Durham (WMRCC). This booklet aims to recommend some key practices for employers to make efforts in recruiting, mentoring, and retaining members of ethnocultural, racialized, religious, 2SLGBTQIA+, and BIPOC groups in employment. An anti-racist, anti-oppression, religious and cultural diversity, gender-based analysis, intersectionality, and human rights code lens was applied throughout this review. The aim is to continue to challenge the organization’s activism and advocacy in the area of combating racism, discrimination, gender-based violence, and promoting inclusiveness in the workplace and other institutions. On the other hand, this booklet seeks to empower employment seekers to find gainful employment opportunities and successfully navigate their career trajectories.
Testimonies from WMRCC Clients
It feels so good to have someone to talk to; someone who understands the issue and sensitive to my feelings. I am always looking forward to coming to my counselling session every week!
Today I hesitated quite a bit before coming to this session. I contemplated cancelling the appointment but here I am leaving a different individual from the one who walked in. I feel so much lighter after my session. These counselling sessions present an opportunity to feel free and clear my mind of negative and other thoughts of hopelessness.
This agency was there for me in the early nineties when majority of the community did not know how to deal with a Muslim woman like me, for that I will always be grateful.