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One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Talk About Neurodiversity In The Workplace

At Wayside's DEI Committee, we are beginning to engage in the conversation of how to build not just an antiracist culture at Wayside, but an anti-ableist one as well. One way...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today:Support Microgrants For Families Fleeing States With Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

With over 400 anti-LGBTQ bills being proposed across the U.S. in this legislative session and with many states already passing them into law, families with LGBTQ+ kids are...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Learn The Roots of the Terms, Asian American, AAPI, and AANHPI

May is Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This month dig into knowing more about the history of this term and who it applies to. First coined as a chosen name to...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Be An Antiracist Interviewer

Juliana Ferreira Recruiting Manager There are some interview questions that help you put antiracism at the forefront of a job interview. If you do interviews...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Be An Intersectional Environmentalist

This year's Earth Day theme is "Invest In Our Planet." As we celebrate Earth Day, it is essential to acknowledge the intersectionality of environmentalism and recognize the...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Prepare For The National Day Of Silence – Friday April 14th

The GLSEN Day of Silence is a national student-led demonstration where LGBTQ students and allies all around the country—and the world—take a vow of silence to protest the...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Get Involved In Advocacy Season

April is the start of "Advocacy Season" in Massachusetts as this is the time in the State legislative calendar where budgets are announced and priorities become clear for...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Change A Word Change A Life – Honor Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday March 31st.

By Amy Hogarth, Director of Training and Equity Culture The campaign, Change a Word Change a Life, was founded to call more attention to using proper pronouns can support...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Undo Racism Through Social Work

On this Social Worker Appreciation Month, take time to reflect on how social work itself has been used to uphold oppression in the past and how it could be used to undo it in...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Follow Women Working To Make AI Ethical, Equitable, & Accountable

Dr. Joy Buolamwini, noticed the facial recognition software she was working on couldn't detect her face, uncovering that the software was never trained to detect the full...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Listen To Her Story

In honor of Women's History Month in March, get your free tickets to the Boston Symphony Orchestra to hear the panel discussion: Her Story. "Julia Wolfe’s Her...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Connect By Calling In, Not Calling Out

Amy Hogarth Director of Training & Equity Culture What is the difference between Calling In & Calling Out? To us at Wayside – it is about intention and connection...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Read A Book

With so much in the news about legislators trying to pass laws to ban books in school, it really demonstrates just how powerful it is to see yourself and your community...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Make Plans to Celebrate Black History Month

This February make plans to celebrate Black History Month in your programs and in your life. After several years of virtual celebrations, many organizations are now holding...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Add Crazy Horse To Your List Of Idols

Crazy Horse, or Tasunke Witko, has become a symbol of resistance for his refusal to accept confinement to reservations for his people.  A warrior and leader in the Lakota...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Embrace The Antiracist Mission

“If a city was a memorial, Boston would be a memorial for America,” Imari Paris Jeffries, Executive Director of the Embrace Memorial, stated. “People come to Boston to...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Understand The Parallels & The Differences

This past Sunday, thousands of protesters stormed the Brazilian capital. The parallels with the U.S. insurrection on January 6th were immediate. “The U.S. example of...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Know The Discrimination Kids Are Experiencing In Schools

As we start 2023, I want to take a moment to reflect on the experiences of youth in schools in the last year. A recent article from the New York Times describes the record...

Our Commitment to the Transgender Community

The below is a statement from Wayside's CEO, Eric L. Masi, Ed. D, that was sent to our 500 staff on Nov. 18, 2021. I write to you today out of respect for the upcoming...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Understand Intersectional Feminism

Daniela Thermora Career Development Manager When someone doesn’t know what intersectionality is, the way I can best describe...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Remember Pulse

Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture This past weekend was the 5th anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting where 49 LGBTQ+ people lost their...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Plan How You Will Celebrate Juneteenth

Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture   Juneteenth commemorates the day the last enslaved people in America learned of their emancipation...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Learn About the Progress Pride Flag

Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture   For the last 42 years, Gilbert Baker’s rainbow striped flag has been the internationally...

One Antiracist Action You Can Take Today: Remember George Floyd

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture Today is the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder. We must first honor his family's wishes and remember...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Let It Sink In

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture and Chief Diversity Officer Yesterday Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts in the murder of George...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Use the Word Accountability in Place of Justice When Discussing the Verdict

By Sara McCabe Vice President of Campus Services Like millions of others, I am anxiously awaiting the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. I was inspired by the words...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Learn the Mental Health Impacts of Anti-Asian Racism

Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture Racism and racial abuse have mental health impacts. Take some time to...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Know The Root of Anti-Asian Racism

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture, Chief Diversity Officer   Violence and the hate crimes against Asian Americans have soared since March...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Learn the Difference Between BIPOC and POC

By Daniela Thermora Career Development Coordinator When I began my agency wide BIPOC - Black, Indigenous, Person of Color - group I received an email asking, "Daniela,...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Use Art To Know The Problem We All Live With

By Sara McCabe Vice President of Campus Services I remember being very young the first time my mom took me to the Norman Rockwell...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Appreciate Black Ingenuity

By Diana Duqette Family Support Specialist Black innovators are responsible for inventions that have changed our daily lives, including the way we eat, prepare and store...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Know The Roots of Intersectionality

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture, Chief Diversity Officer We often remember Sojourner Truth for her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech, but her legacy...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Learn The History of School Desegregation

By Eric L. Masi, Ed.D President & CEO Many in Massachusetts remember or have studied the horrible stories of school desegregation in Boston. I didn't grow up here but...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Celebrate Black History Month By Doing The Work

Sara McCabe, LICSW Vice President of Campus Services she/her/hers Dear White People, In honor of Black History Month we are calling on you to #DoTheWork!...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Educate Yourself on the Laws & Push for Change

By Amy Hogarth Director of Recruitment and Inclusion We are thrilled that the new administration is giving racial equity respect and attention - there is no time to waste...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Black Women Are at the Forefront of Social Change, Follow Them

Michelle Hillman Marketing & Communication Manager On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the late icon’s daughter, Bernice King,...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Reflect On The Beloved Community

Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture As we wait to see the first Black and Asian woman be inaugurated Vice...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Reflections on MLK Day

B By Molly Fadden, Department of People and Culture intern Today we celebrated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. by paying tribute to his life...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Know The Difference Between Cancel Culture & Public Accountability

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture Yesterday Representative Jim Jordan called the second impeachment of...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Recognize The Fragility Of Gains Without Full Systemic Change

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture Over the last 100 years women went from having 8 million jobs in the workforce to 78 million. In the last year,...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Leverage Your Expertise

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture We all have a special set of skills and expertise that we can use to...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Start With Small Steps

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture Throughout the last six months we have shared with you 143 anti-racist actions you can take. Which ones have...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Demand Truth & Accountability

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture All forms of oppression and tyranny rely on maintaining at least one...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Acknowledge The Macro

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture On behalf of the entire Senior Team, we would like to acknowledge...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Make A Plan To Vote In Every. Single. Election.

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture If there is one thing we have learned this year, it's that every single vote counts. And then it is counted again....

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Appreciate, Don’t Appropriate

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture Cultural appropriation is one of those terms you may have heard repeatedly, but many not really know what it...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Know Racism Is International

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture Systemic racism doesn't just happen in America. Around the world systems of oppression replicate many of the same...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Follow the Work of Chief Diversity Officers

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture and Chief Diversity Officer After the murder of George Floyd companies issued statements of outrage and committed...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Find Your Accountability Partner

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture The best way to change your own behavior is by having someone else hold you accountable to it. This is especially...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Do Whatever It Takes

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture So much of what Wayside staff do day in and day out in your jobs are actions to support kids and families who are...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Eat Some Ice Cream

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a business model where companies are socially accountable to their...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Share Five Equity Plan Goals

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture   Wayside is a child welfare and behavioral health agency committed to anti-racism, social justice and...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Apply Equity & Racial Justice To Philanthropy

By Nicolas M. Kane Development Manager Today, Dec. 1, 2020, is Giving Tuesday. If you follow Wayside on social media, you know that we are participating and asking the...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Remember Them, Transgender Day of Remembrance

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture, Chief Diversity Officer On November 20th we remember the lives of transgender people who have...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Learn About Stacey Abrams and The Long Game

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture and Chief Diversity Officer When Vice President Joe Biden took the lead in Georgia this morning - the first time...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: 24 Hours of Self-Care to Get You Through Election Day

By Amy Hogarth Director of Recruitment & Inclusion Rather than doomscrolling while waiting for election results, I recommend you do one, two, or all of the 24 items...

One Anti-Racist Action to Take Today: Invest in Your Own Wellness

By Sara McCabe Vice President of Campus Services We’ve all had the experience of being told to “calm down” or “just relax” or we’ve given that...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Self-Care to Beat Election Anxiety

By Sukie Bansal-Roberts Benefits & Wellness Coordinator Graphic image credit: Getty Images As the 2020 presidential election looms, most of the country is gripped in...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Know Your Rights – Overview

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture and Chief Diversity Officer Our country is going through major unrest due to the global...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Know Whose Land You Are Living On

By Guimel DeCarvalho, Vice President of People and Culture, Chief Diversity Officer Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day. It is a day to celebrate all of the contributions Native...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Condemn White Supremacy

When someone asks you to condemn white supremacy, you do it.  By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture and Chief Diversity Officer Blog Image Photo...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Explore Your Privilege

By Guimel DeCarvalho Vice President of People & Culture, Chief Diversity Officer Privilege in its simplest form is getting things you haven't earned because there are no...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Appreciate a Cultural Icon

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People and Culture, Chief Diversity Officer Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, James Brown, and the Marvel character T'Challa in the...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Push Past Your Own Silence

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People & Culture, Chief Diversity Officer Silence is a powerful thing. Whether choosing not to speak up about witnessing racism or...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Support the Sports Strike

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People & Culture, Chief Diversity Officer Yesterday the Milwaukee Bucks and Orlando Magic voted to not play in their playoff game in...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Volunteer To Be A Poll Worker

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People and Culture Given the obstacles to voting presented by the pandemic and the attacks on the postal service, it's more important than...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Appreciate Multilingualism

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People and Culture, Chief Diversity Officer Have you ever tried to learn another language? It's hard! So why is it that multilingualism is...

Be Inspired by John Lewis, a Civil Rights Icon

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People and Culture On July 17th Civil Rights leader and Congressman, John Lewis passed away. He was the last remaining March on Washington...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Support and Learn From Black Academics and Activists

By Taiany Goulart Medford Program Director Today's anti-racist action comes from Medford Program Director, Taiany Goulart. Taiany is following the work of Rachel Cargle, a...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Relearn History

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People and Culture, Chief Diversity Officer You may have heard the phrase "history is written by the winners" or "history is written by the...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Support Black-owned Businesses

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People and Culture, Chief Diversity Officer Black-owned businesses have long been shut out of capital, loans and lines of credit due to...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Request an Absentee Ballot, Register to Vote, & Run for Office!

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People and Culture, Chief Diversity Officer Voting matters. Voting...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Learn and Practice the Tasks of the Privileged by Dr. Ken Hardy

By Guimel DeCarvalho Wayside's Director of People and Culture and Chief Diversity Officer Prior to engaging in a conversation about race, read, learn, and practice the...

One Anti-Racist Action You Can Take Today: Learn About & Plan How You Will Celebrate Juneteenth

By Guimel DeCarvalho Director of People and Culture Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United...

George Floyd and the Pandemic of Racism