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https://dac.berkeley.edu/

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We recognize that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band. We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from, the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community, inclusion and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. As members of the Berkeley community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we stand, but also, we recognize that the Muwekma Ohlone people are alive and flourishing members of the Berkeley and broader Bay Area communities today.                                       

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We recognize that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band. We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from, the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community, inclusion and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. As members of the Berkeley community, it is vitally important that we not only recognize the history of the land on which we stand, but also, we recognize that the Muwekma Ohlone people are alive and flourishing members of the Berkeley and broader Bay Area communities today.                                       

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This acknowledgement was co-created with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and Native American Student Development and is a living document. Action Required: Using a Land Acknowledgement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmBeU42fhxE&feature=youtu.be

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Action Required: Using A Land Acknowledgement

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If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL

interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully

participate in this event and with resources, please contact Mariana at

Mariana.Matthews@berkeley.edu

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With these conversations’ grounding in Paulo Freire’s conscientização, what terms, inspirations, and systems are vital for you to name to engage in this dialogue on practicing and building belonging?

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B4 Series Beyond Acknowledgement: Safety

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B4 Series Beyond Acknowledgement: Safety

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B4 Safety Participant Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kafq8638CwC82ent0A4ljOCuI62b4Xxj?usp=share_link

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We invite you to share UC Berkeley campus and community resources that support creating safe spaces. Feel free to add related information and links below.

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We invite you to share UC Berkeley campus and community resources that support creating safe spaces. Feel free to add related information and links below.

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select the "+" button at the bottom of each column to create a new post

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xučyun (Huichin) is the home territory that Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, it extends from what we know today as the Berkeley hills to the Bay Shore, from West Oakland to El Cerrito. The territory is composed of what we know today as five Bay Area cities -  all of Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville, El Cerrito, and most of Oakland.

Our campus extends to areas of xučyun that held a tuppentak (a traditional roundhouse), a place of celebration and ceremony, as well as a shellmound, traditional Ohlone burial sites. So as we view Berkeley as a special place, we were not the first to recognize, make our lives in, or celebrate the unique and exceptional place that we have the privilege to stand on.

Source: https://cejce.berkeley.edu/ohloneland

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Centers for Educational Justice & Community Engagement

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In the context of this conversation, and in your work + personal lives, what does/would it mean to thrive?

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NAME:  Kiyoko Thomas (she/they)

JOB TITLE: Basic Needs Center Director

BIO:

Kiyoko Thomas (she/they) is the Basic Needs Center Director at UC Berkeley where she has worked for the past 5 years. Her journey has always guided her towards work that is rooted in justice, transformation and healing. Improving the health outcomes of individuals and communities by way of building relationships is at the core of her value system and is what brought her to UC Berkeley where she has worked to expand the infrastructure of basic needs services from a holistic and equitable perspective. Prior to her role at UC Berkeley, Kiyoko worked in the mental health field for 12 years and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Her journey includes working as a clinician and program leader for mental health programs in Northern California. Most recently, Kiyoko was the program director for an adolescent crisis stabilization unit.

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What are some resources, groundings, and inspirations for this work?

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Joining from outside of the Bay Area today? 

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Joining from outside of the Bay Area today? 

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Explore the Native Land you occupy here: https://native-land.ca/

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Mapping

We strive to map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages across the world in a way that goes beyond colonial ways of thinking in order to better represent how Indigenous people want to see themselves.

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Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.

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What role does safety play as the university commits to fostering a campus community of belonging and thriving?

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cici ambrosio (she/they/siya) | B4 Speaker

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cici ambrosio (she/they/siya) | B4 Speaker

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NAME:  cici ambrosio (she/they/siya)

JOB TITLE: Director of Women's Resources, Sexual Harassment/Assault Resources, Gender Equity Resource Center

BIO:

christine (cici) ambrosio (she/they) is a Cal alum and current graduate student at UC Davis. Over the past 20+ years, she has worked as the Director of Women*s Resources focusing on initiatives that increase inclusion and visibility of women and other marginalized genders at UC Berkeley.

*We welcome all who experience life through the lens of woman in body, spirit, identity - past, present, future, and fluid.

During their time on campus, cici has been a self-defense instructor and oversees Cal Self-Defense for All. Over the years, cici has collaboratively to plan successful Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Awareness weeks, the longstanding Empowering Women of Color Conference (EWOCC) and Our Monologues.  Before the campus PATH to Care Center was created, she led efforts to educate the campus on sexual violence, including being part of the Systemwide efforts through the Office of Violence against Women grant.

cici began her career in the UC system as a student worker in the Doe Library.  Later, she worked as a student coordinator for the Immigrant Student Program (ISP) and a front desk clerk in Student Activities and Services.  In addition, she was very involved in the campus Pilipino community - in groups like Pilipino American Alliance (PAA) and contributing to maganda magazine.  She immersed herself in Tagalog classes and participated as a Fulbright Scholar for the Advanced Filipino Abroad Program.  All these experiences have inspired them to work in higher education as a way of give back to the community by helping students who may feel lost in a large institution like Berkeley.  After finishing her B.A. in Art Practice, cici took a position at the Office of Student Conduct.  Later, she finished her Education Masters in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  After graduation, cici worked briefly as a professor’s assistant at UCLA’s Department of Gerontology before returning to Berkeley.

cici has continued to be involved in the community as a former runner for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a coach for the Runbutans (fundraising effort for the Manilatown Heritage Foundation to rebuild the International Hotel housing for seniors) and the SLC Sole Team (fundraising effort for the Student Learning Center), and serves on the board of the Prytanean Alumnae, Inc.

Outside of work, cici enjoys exploring grocery stores, sleeping, and has a deep appreciation for a variety of boba drinks and milk tea.

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How can our campus community critically engage with various models and understandings of safety as harm and violence continues to be perpetuated on and off campus?

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Lucy Andrews (she/her/hers) | B4 Speaker

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Lucy Andrews (she/her/hers) | B4 Speaker

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NAME:  Lucy Andrews

JOB TITLE: Graduate Student Worker, PhD Candidate, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and President, Graduate Assembly. Lucy is the co-chair of the Chancellor’s Independent Advisory Board on Police Accountability and Community Safety.

BIO:

I’m fascinated by water resource management in the face of scarcity, climate change, and increasing demands for freshwater. To that end, I study dam reoperation, environmental flows, and scientifically-informed comprise in California water management. I aim to center environmental justice and cross-disciplinary methods in my research while involving diverse collaborators in the planning, practice, and dissemination of my science.

I am also a water loss control specialist, and I support municipal water efficiency efforts in California, Wisconsin, Texas, and Washington. I have a degree in geology from Macalester College, and I spend my free time running long distances and engaging in racial justice projects.

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What role does prevention play in this conversation?

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NAME:  Tobirus M. Newby

JOB TITLE:  Director of Social Services, University Health Services

BIO:

"Tobirus M. Newby is a licensed clinical social worker and is the director of the Social Services unit at University Health Services. Over the past 20 years he has worked in the field of trauma & violence prevention and intervention by supporting the healing journeys of survivors and by fostering accountability and change with those who have caused harm in their relationships. This work has focused specifically on supporting education and empowerment within marginalized and underserved communities. In addition, Tobirus is an adjunct faculty member with the University of San Francisco’s Counseling Psychology Department. In his private practice, he provides life coaching and organizational equity and inclusion consultation. A quote that guides his life and his practice comes from James Baldwin: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

Clinical Interests: Alcohol and other drugs counseling, domestic violence and sexual assault intervention, sexual health risk reduction, LGBTQ issues, trauma counseling, decolonization in mental health, spirituality, intersectionality, and multiculturalism.

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Grounding Terms and Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10A6Uu43DVYPuX0RGc4ApBoAcKUZvygEmMwon2LL5Q04/edit#

Grounding Terms and Resources {Large Print}: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15qmstH1XSWWVlWW3AZlYgVv-e8sjx8tMVUOnuhasLPk/edit#

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why is the family housing UVA not safe??? and shy do the higher ups not take action when there have been many reports of this?

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https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/06/28/berkeleys-new-daytime-center-opens-for-unhoused-community/

https://thevillageoflove.org/drop-in-center

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why is the family housing UVA not safe??? and shy do the higher ups not take action when there have been many reports of this?

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why do not have access to post in the chat?? This is not equity when we have lots to say about safety at UC Berkeley!

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Listening is great, but what about taking action to create more safety? Not just listening to complaints. What action steps are being implemented today to improve safety on campus and in the family housing in Albany?

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The Loop Golf Cart Mobility Accommodation

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The Loop Golf Cart Mobility Accommodation

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https://dac.berkeley.edu/services/mobility-accommodations/loop-golf-cart

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many safety issues and not enough UCPD patrols

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many safety issues and not enough UCPD patrols

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Why are there only 3-4 units available per shift to handle so many safety issues on campus & in family housing? How can a few police officers handle so many incidents?

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I have worked with Berkeley in some capacity for close to 4 years, and started a new role in a different part of campus. I've been assured that I should feel safe to express myself or my life experience. In large part, I never experienced that safety. My new management says they uphold these similar values, but at this point, I feel extremely jaded. How can I set aside this trauma to be the best person I can in this new role?

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I live in NYC. And during "defund the police" you could feel the rise of safety issues, and statistics say the same. Now it's different (more like came back to normal). Why is SF Bay so eager to defund the police, let people go from minor offences etc. For context my wife is not coming with me to SF partially because of this

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what should a student do after they have been retaliated on for speaking up for their safety and now are being punished academically through inequitable polices that punish us for being abused by the university, living in unsafe university owned family housing?

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what should a student do after they have been retaliated on for speaking up for their safety and now are being punished academically through inequitable polices that punish us for being abused by the university, living in unsafe university owned family housing?

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I want to raise the issue of shelter and safety during emergencies — right now the campus policy for disasters is going to literally lock us out of the sheltering buildings that staff, students, and instructors depend on. Many of us live in old cramped housing situations, but after the earthquake, current campus policy will have us huddling in the street while the campus’ halls, gyms, offices, etc. are locked away from us out of liability concerns. I myself will not be able to find dry shelter with electricity and light b/c I will be locked out of my office. During the wildfires the facilities on campus forced us all out into the smoke b/c the ventilations systems were deemed below-current-standard. It was insane and traumatizing.

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What do you see as the relationship between safety and meeting housing needs? What recommendations do you have for campus policies/practices? Would love to hear from the moderator as well!

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https://berkeleyca.gov/safety-health/mental-health/crisis-services

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Mental health crisis services are generally available to all people in Berkeley and do not require insurance or payment.

Contact the Mobile Crisis Team for urgent situations

The Mobile Crisis Team provides direct crisis services in the field for both adults and children. The phone number you can use to contact the team depends on the urgency of the crisis:

If you are in a life-threatening emergency, please call 911 or (510) 981-5911 and ask the Police Dispatcher for Mental Health. Examples of when you might call 911 include situations of attempted suicide, homicide, assault, or physical threats.

If you are in an urgent but not life-threatening situation, please reach out to Non-emergency Police Dispatch at (510) 981-5900 and ask for Mental Health. Examples of when you might request the Mobile Crisis Team through non-emergency dispatch include situations of drug abuse, severe psychotic behaviors, or to request a welfare check or an evaluation for psychiatric hospitalization.

If you have a non-urgent message you would like to leave for the Mobile Crisis Team, please call (510) 981-5254. Examples of when you might call the Mobile Crisis Team non-urgent voicemail include to request a mental health consultation regarding a family member or information regarding a crisis service.

The Mobile Crisis Team is available on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:30 am to 10:00 pm. Please note the Mobile Crisis Team is not currently available on Tuesdays and Saturdays. If you have an emergency outside of these operating hours, please call 911.

The Mobile Crisis Team serves all residents of Berkeley and does not charge any fees. Staff speak English, Cantonese, French, and Hindi, and can also get translation services by phone for other languages.

Contact the Crisis, Assessment, Triage team to get connected with resources or treatment

If you or someone you know wants resources or treatment for a mental health condition, please contact the Crisis, Assessment, and Triage team at (510) 981-5244 or MentalHealth@cityofberkeley.info. You can also walk into our Adult Mental Health Clinic at 2640 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Monday - Thursday, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm. Learn more about eligibility, how to access services, and what services are offered.

CRISIS SERVICES OUTSIDE OF BERKELEY

If you are looking for crisis services outside of Berkeley, you may contact one of the Mobile Crisis Teams in Alameda County.

Community Assessment and Transport Team (CATT): One licensed clinician and one Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) who provide crisis interventions and medical clearance.

Mobile Crisis Team (MCT): Two licensed clinicians who respond to mental health crisis calls from the community, providers, and mental health calls via 911.

Mobile Evaluation Team (MET): One licensed clinician and one police officer who respond to mental health crisis calls via 911.

For more information about these services and how to contact them, please visit the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services website or 988 Alameda County.

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If you or someone you know is having a mental health crisis, please call (510) 981-5900 (Police Non-Emergency), or 911 if it is a life-threatening emergency. For the Alameda County Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, please call 988 or (800) 309-2131. To leave a direct message for the Mobile Crisis Team, call (510) 981-5254.

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Can we share the Crisis Service contact information amongst fellow staff now?

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Can we share the Crisis Service contact information amongst fellow staff now?

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https://berkeleyca.gov/safety-health/mental-health/crisis-services

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Mental health crisis services are generally available to all people in Berkeley and do not require insurance or payment.

Contact the Mobile Crisis Team for urgent situations

The Mobile Crisis Team provides direct crisis services in the field for both adults and children. The phone number you can use to contact the team depends on the urgency of the crisis:

If you are in a life-threatening emergency, please call 911 or (510) 981-5911 and ask the Police Dispatcher for Mental Health. Examples of when you might call 911 include situations of attempted suicide, homicide, assault, or physical threats.

If you are in an urgent but not life-threatening situation, please reach out to Non-emergency Police Dispatch at (510) 981-5900 and ask for Mental Health. Examples of when you might request the Mobile Crisis Team through non-emergency dispatch include situations of drug abuse, severe psychotic behaviors, or to request a welfare check or an evaluation for psychiatric hospitalization.

If you have a non-urgent message you would like to leave for the Mobile Crisis Team, please call (510) 981-5254. Examples of when you might call the Mobile Crisis Team non-urgent voicemail include to request a mental health consultation regarding a family member or information regarding a crisis service.

The Mobile Crisis Team is available on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:30 am to 10:00 pm. Please note the Mobile Crisis Team is not currently available on Tuesdays and Saturdays. If you have an emergency outside of these operating hours, please call 911.

The Mobile Crisis Team serves all residents of Berkeley and does not charge any fees. Staff speak English, Cantonese, French, and Hindi, and can also get translation services by phone for other languages.

Contact the Crisis, Assessment, Triage team to get connected with resources or treatment

If you or someone you know wants resources or treatment for a mental health condition, please contact the Crisis, Assessment, and Triage team at (510) 981-5244 or MentalHealth@cityofberkeley.info. You can also walk into our Adult Mental Health Clinic at 2640 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Monday - Thursday, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm. Learn more about eligibility, how to access services, and what services are offered.

CRISIS SERVICES OUTSIDE OF BERKELEY

If you are looking for crisis services outside of Berkeley, you may contact one of the Mobile Crisis Teams in Alameda County.

Community Assessment and Transport Team (CATT): One licensed clinician and one Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) who provide crisis interventions and medical clearance.

Mobile Crisis Team (MCT): Two licensed clinicians who respond to mental health crisis calls from the community, providers, and mental health calls via 911.

Mobile Evaluation Team (MET): One licensed clinician and one police officer who respond to mental health crisis calls via 911.

For more information about these services and how to contact them, please visit the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services website or 988 Alameda County.

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If you or someone you know is having a mental health crisis, please call (510) 981-5900 (Police Non-Emergency), or 911 if it is a life-threatening emergency. For the Alameda County Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, please call 988 or (800) 309-2131. To leave a direct message for the Mobile Crisis Team, call (510) 981-5254.

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If we define safety as "freedom from physical violence" why is no one bringing up that deterring crime through fear of punishment has been working extremely well for reducing crime rates- the data is overwhelming on this. We cannot just follow a buddhist mindset and fix socioeconomic root causes of crime while actively decriminalizing. Also lots of statistical data on this - it is gaslighting to assume that if we're just nice and welcoming to everyone, crime will automatically cease to exist. UCB campus is not a safe environment for staff and students at the moment and none of the things that were said will make that better.