Exhibit 4
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO GET INVOLVED:
• Encourage your communities and residents to • Work swiftly to ensure that all sectors of your contact the LA vs Hate program team if they are community are aware of the hate violence and are the victim or witness of hate. Remind them to responding effectively. Act as a convenor for an report the incident by phone with 211LA or online immediate community sector response, using this through the reporting form. This report triggers Opportunities List as a checklist for a response to an immediate response to 211LA case managers the hate that has impacted your city. who will reach out to victims to ensure they are • Pass an emergency resolution or release a linked to needed services including medical statement within 24 hours of notice of the hate services, mental health services or other act, condemning the hate and ensuring city longer-term resources. LA vs Hate also provides residents are standing in solidarity with victims. case management services in the primary Asian These statements condemning such hate violence languages spoken in LA County and a Response send an important message to both perpetrator Network of trusted community-based agencies is
and victims, that such behavior will not be
in place to work with you and your staff to condoned in your City. This document contains organize an immediate, effective response. This sample language about the potential resolution. can look like:
• Work with your school district superintendent to
• Organizing a community event, such as a ensure schools are included in any messages of solidarity march, a vigil, a community dialogue unity and solidarity for all city residents. Refer or other city event to ensure your city your superintendent to both the LA ys Hate residents feel heard and are informed that the website and the Explore Justice website for city is working to address the hate violence. information and ideas on how to use these acts of violence as teachable moments for students.
• Providing workshops, such as Bystander
Trainings, to ensure that city residents are • Distribute and display LA vs Hate posters and provided with strategies for defending, signage in city halls, businesses, public spaces and defusing, delaying or distracting perpetrators neighborhoods to promote a message of peace of hate in the event they are victims of hate and unity among residents. violence. Check for free Bystander training • Explore training and support offered by LA vs offered by Right To Be. Hate for local law enforcement agencies to • Providing culturally proficient care responses connect victims to our resource network. to victims of hate, depending on the
community impacted. The LA vs Hate
Network Response agencies include partners
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serving immigrants; African American; Asian IS. HATE
and Asian American/Pacific Islander; Latinx;
Jewish; Muslim; LGBTQ+ and other
vulnerable, targeted communities.
• Promote reporting and support services
offered by LA vs Hate on your digital LAvE
channels, city newsletter, and owned REPORT HATE
out-of-home advertising spaces. DIAL 211