Dawn Mayer
Juelz Herrera
Sarah Falcon
Melissa Baker
Jorge Pamplona
Miguel Mora
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Dawn Mayer
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Who Did We Survey?
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43% Hispanic/Latino
44% Caucasian
5% Asian
4% African–American
60% surveyed
voted in the last
election
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49% surveyed have
had some
college education
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Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Who is in need within our
community?
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Victims of Hate Crimes
Participants in Hate Crimes
Individuals
Families
Parents
Children of acts are considered a form of hate crime?
What kind of acts are considered a form of hate crime?
18% Vandalism
26% Physical assault
17% Verbal abuse
9% Graffiti
74% All of the above
Hate Crimes are more than violent acts and are painful in any
form…..
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Have you ever been a victim of a hate crime?
50% YES
If so, what type?
12% Gender Based
26% Racial Bias
15% Sexual Orientation Bias
10% Religious Discrimination
15% Other
Have any of your friends or family been a victim of a hate crime?
58% YES
If so, what type?
10% Gender Based
59% Racial Bias
14% Sexual Orientation Bias
13% Religious Discrimination
13% Other
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• Overall awareness of the impact hate crimes
have on individuals and groups
• Education on this issue needs to be
considered and taught in schools
• Inform kids at a young age about prejudice
and violence
• Stopping the cycle of teaching hate in the
home
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• “Does hate crime even exist in our community?”
94% Answered YES
• “What kind of hate crimes affect you the most?”
32%
47%
29%
29%
37%
Gender Based Bias
Racial Bias
Sexual Orientation Bias
Religious Discrimination
Other
 “Would you support educating people on this
issue?”
93% Answered YES
Hate crimes are real not only in our community, but all over the
world. The cycle of violence has to stop somewhere
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Ignorance
Anger
Unjust bias
Raised on a certain belief system
Judgment
Peer pressure
Family pressure
Mental Illness
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College - Spring 2009
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Suggested solutions
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Media advertisements
Teaching in schools
Outreach
programs
What would be the best method in educating people about hate
crimes?
74% Teach in schools
43% Media Advertisements
49% Outreach Programs
38% Campaigns
24% Other
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Solution 1: Media Advertisements
• Create anti‐hate ads for TV, radio, newspapers
and billboards
• The ads will bring to light the severity of hate
crimes and will broaden people’s
understanding
• The ads will motivate people to initiate
change in their own home and community
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Solution 2: Teaching in schools
• As a part of general education teachers would
help create awareness about hate crime
• In school kids will be given the opportunity to get
a different perspective from their parents’ beliefs
• If kids are taught at a young age, it will be more
likely they will keep an open mind to prevent the
cycle of hate
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Solution 3: Outreach Programs
• Creating Awareness through outreach programs for
families to teach their children early about hate
• Community effort to reach out by holding conferences,
speeches, campaigning to stop discrimination and violent
acts and raising money to pay for education and
advertisements
• If we involve the community we will create unity rather
than constantly focusing on our differences
• This will provide a safe place for victims of hate crimes
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College - Spring 2009
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Final Solution Selection Process
1. Which solution would address the issue
promptly?
2. How effective will the solution be in our
community ?
3. Will the solution meet the needs of all unjust
bias related crimes?
4. Which solution is the most cost effective?
5. Which solution would bring the most
educational value?
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Solution Selection Table
Media
Advertisements
Teaching in
Schools
Outreach
Programs
1.Most Prompt
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2. Most effective
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3. Meets needs
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4. Most cost
effective
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XXX
5. Educational
Value
X
XXXX
X
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Solution Goals
• To inform and educate the community
about the severity of hate crimes
• Prevent hate crimes from happening in our
community
• To give opportunity to youth to determine
their own belief system
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Challenges in reaching Goals
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Funding
Lack of community support
Board of Education
Do you think as a community, we could do something
to prevent hate crimes?
86% Yes
14% No
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Implementing Solutions
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Proposals to the Community
Getting the Community involved
Raising Money
Counseling
Writing to Congress
Political Support
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• Community United Against Violence
24 Hour Crisis Line (415)‐333‐help
• Anti‐Defamation League www.adl.org
Hate crime victims call: (415)‐981‐3500
• National Center for victims of crime
www.ncvc.org
• Diversity Center www.sclgbtc.org
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009
Digital Bridge Academy - Cabrillo
College - Spring 2009