- Jewish Family and Children’s Services: Holocaust Center – program of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties that is dedicated to the education, documentation, and remembrance of the Holocaust
- The Sonoma County Survivor Project – online exhibit created by photographer, teacher, and Executive Director of Listening for a Change Phyllis Rosenfield and oral historian/computer scientist Lisa Slater to document histories of communities who have suffered dramatic losses of their human rights in order to prevent similar events in the future
- What does it mean to foster compassion in a complex world? – Through the lens of the Syrian refugee crisis, Facing History teacher Stephanie Carrillo asks, how do we combat the resulting “psychic numbing” that manifests as lack of caring and inaction? Read Carrillo’s post on Facing Today, which urges us all to think about how the Universe of Obligation can apply to devastating world events and focus on how we can help one another at an individual level.
- How do you address narratives of “us” vs. “them”? – History has taught us the dangers of dividing people between “us” vs. “them.” Read this Facing Today post from Jackson Tse about how and why we should remember the victims and honor the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre. He urges us to take a stand against the currents of racial discrimination, hate speech, and violence.
- Facing History and Ourselves (Bay Area) – Facing History workshops introduce humanities educators to innovative teaching strategies, resources, and scholarship that make teachers more effective and lead to increased student engagement and learning.