5/31 VBC 20: Interrupting Hate in Public Places

An assembly of people representing “People United Against Hate” holding a banner with the logo and signs reading “families belong together” and “end family separation”.

An assembly of people representing “People United Against Hate” holding a banner with the logo and signs reading “families belong together” and “end family separation”.

This training will be conducted through a zoom account as provided by PUAH.

Ensuring the safety of our communities is paramount. Yet public vitriol is skyrocketing, tensions flare at a moment’s notice and Oregon is consistently ranked in the top five states of per capita hate incidents. Participants will learn how to identify, understand and overcome the inhibitions that prevent them from supporting targets of hate. They will learn and use tactics for interrupting verbal hate; while centering and empowering the target. They will understand the risks involved in intervention and how to de-escalate a situation. The event is facilitated by As the Spirit Moves Us.

Goals, Strategies and Success Measures: 

  • Participants will learn how to identify, understand and overcome the inhibitions that prevent them from supporting targets of hate

  • learn and use tactics for interrupting verbal hate; while centering and empowering the target

  •  understand the risks involved in intervention and how to de-escalate a situation