February is African American History Month

February is African American History Month. Celebrate ethnic diversity with us with the help of many CYFERnet resources. CYFERnet is proud to announce the new Strengthening Programs to Reach Diverse Audiences Curriculum, which is now available online.

Do you find your community changing and growing in the types of people you encounter? CYFERnet has a number of Resources for Working More Effectively with Diverse Cultures.

Are you interested in working with others to increase cultural competence? If so, see check out Resources for Increasing Cultural Competence.

CYFERnet also has many Culture Specific Resources that you might find useful and interesting. These include resources about everything from holidays to demographics to literature.

You can find other resources about diversity by searching under the keyword “diversity”, or by browsing the different categories of CYFERnet.

Resources for Working More Effectively with Diverse Cultures

• Working with Diverse Cultures
• Communicating Across Cultures
• Cultural Responsiveness in Family Services
• National Association for Multicultural Education
• Recruiting and Supporting Latino Volunteers
• Portraits of Four Schools: Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Students and Their Families
• Raising Minority Academic Achievement: A Compendium of Education Programs and Practices
• 101 Tools for Tolerance
• Designing Diversity: Developing Cooperative Extension Programs With Ethnically Diverse Communities

Resources for Increasing Cultural Competence

• Holidays Around the World: A Festival of Lessons!
• Accomplishing Cross Cultural Competence in Youth Development Programs
• Diversity Activities for Youth and Adults
• Helping Children Understand Other Cultures
• Cultural Diversity and Early Education

Culture Specific Resources

• Alaska Native Knowledge Network
• Kids Count Pocket Guide African-American Children
• Kids Count Pocket Guide Latino Children
• The African American Inventors Curriculum
• Literature for Young People Islamic Traditions and Muslim Cultures
• Parent Preferences for Learning: A study of Euro-Americans, Hispanic, Native American, Asian, and African American parents
• American Indian/Alaskan Native Learning Styles: Research and Practice
• Extensión en Español
• Growing Up in Multicultural Families
• Multi-Cultural Calendar
• America's Diversity at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Reflections from Census 2000
• Selected Bibliography of Multicultural Fiction and Poetry

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