APPENDIX F

Museum of Tolerance Educational and Outreach Programs- Current and Future

The following is a synopsis of current, active programs offered on a regular, ongoing basis at the of Tolerance, and the potential for future growth and expansion.

Professional Development and Training Programs:

Executive Leadership Program for Command Level Professionals Tools for Tolerance® for Command Staff is a 16 hour program for command level professionals addressing the unique challenges facing today’s law enforcement leadership. The program guides Command Staff to craft appropriate responses to complex issues. Today's leaders have no roadmap by which to refer. Combining timeless qualities with those that are timely for this new era, today's leaders must master activities their predecessors did not have to contemplate.

Cultural Diversity The 8-hour course, Changing Role of Law Enforcement, the core law enforcement program, is designed to explore the evolving role of law enforcement in a rapidly changing, increasingly diverse society. Participants are introduced to new models, including “Soldier to Educator”, through which to view issues of diversity and to hone ethical decision-making skills.

Hate Crimes Investigation for First Responders This new course, Tools for Tolerance® Hate Crimes for First Responders, is designed for law enforcement officers who are responsible for first response to a or hate incidents. It provides up-to-date information to assist officers in the safe and successful handling of hate and bias motivated crimes. The course provides officers with information and skills necessary to conduct a preliminary investigation involving hate crime.

Tools for Tolerance® for Supervising Line Staff The first-line supervisor is an extremely challenging position. First-line supervisors have the ability to influence how policies and procedures are perceived and applied. However, first-line supervisors also find themselves in the unenviable position of being sandwiched between the great expectations of leadership and perceptions of power and accountability from subordinates. Drawing upon the models of the current Tools for Tolerance® for Command Staff program, this presentation assists supervisors to gain expertise in certain leadership skills and to infuse those skills in a para-military organizational structure.

Beyond Diversity: Integrity as a Tool for Building Trust with Communities This program refines the role of the law enforcement professional in a diverse society, provides a new way of understanding communities, and suggests how to use integrity in developing trust. The training focuses on advanced skills that enhance an officer’s understanding of and ability to work with people from divergent backgrounds, how integrity can be used in the application, and the resulting levels of trust that can be built.

Racial Profiling Train-the-Trainer The Museum of Tolerance provides the official train-the-trainer for the 5-hour POST mandated racial profiling training under the Commission of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST.) This program focuses on providing the information and skills necessary to ensure a successful presentation of the Racial Profiling curriculum to meet 13519 P.C. The three day course utilizes class discussions, exercises, and the POST video to cover topics such as: Racial Profiling Defined, Legal Considerations, History of Civil Rights, and Community Considerations.

National Institutes Against Hate Crimes and Terrorism The National Institutes Against Hate Crimes and Terrorism enhance criminal justice professionals' capacity to proactively prevent the spread of hate crimes in their communities and to vigilantly identify and address potential terrorist threats. Jurisdictional teams formulate strategic approaches to combat hate crimes collaboratively based on a fresh understanding of the unique elements that differentiate them from other criminal acts.

Leadership Initiatives for Command Staff

This three day program for command level professionals addresses the unique challenges facing today’s law enforcement leadership. The program guides Command Staff to craft appropriate responses to complex issues. The goal for the Leadership Initiatives for Command Staff is to assist command staff and policy makers of law enforcement agencies become more effective leaders given the evolving role of law enforcement in an increasingly democratic and diverse society.

Perspectives on Profiling Increased media scrutiny and public fear intensify law enforcement’s challenge to strengthen security without jeopardizing community trust and freedom. September 11th has forced change in profiling strategies, but must not be allowed to feed a culture of bias. This interactive program uses cutting edge technology to provide law enforcement with an innovative tool to hone their ethical decision making skills and meet this complex challenge.

Protecting the Dignity of the Corrections Officer This innovative program focuses on the role that dignity plays in redefining the environment in which corrections officers work. While acknowledging the high degree of physical danger in the corrections field, this day-long program explores the nature of the non-physical dangers. The program introduces proprietary models and other innovative tools that help participants protect their soul, humanity, and dignity within this challenging environment

Law Enforcement Partnerships with Schools (LPS) Law Enforcement Partnerships with Schools (LPS) brings key community stakeholders together to develop strategic coalitions for building inclusive and safe school communities. The program is designed to advance understanding and collaboration between law enforcement and education professionals, including classified staff. Participants are encouraged to examine their evolving professional roles and to recognize overlapping responsibilities in addressing pressing issues in their schools and neighborhoods.

Tools for Tolerance® for Educators Tools for Tolerance® for Educators is an interactive, experiential program utilizing innovative approaches to introduce new paradigms toward building capacity for safe and respectful schools. The program offers a holistic approach to teaching tolerance in learning communities. Going beyond heroes and holidays, anti-bias education is articulated in terms of learning processes that promote self-reflection, critical thinking and social action.

Tools for Tolerance® for Professionals Professional roles are evolving to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world. Today's workforce needs the competencies, attitudes and leadership models to navigate new terrain and recognize the opportunities that diversity and globalization present. Going far beyond the usual 'power-point training' experience, Tools for Tolerance® for Professionals provides truly transformative experiential and learner-centered programs to all members of workplace teams.

Potential for Expansion of Existing Programs:

The above Tools for Tolerance® training programs have hosted over 160,000 participants since the inception of the program in 1996, and have gained widespread recognition and acclaim. Demand for these programs for front line professionals, as well as public and private-sector employees is growing from throughout the , as well as internationally.

The Museum of Tolerance can only meet this strong demand with expanded new facilities that have the capacity to accommodate larger groups, and an increased number of groups simultaneously. The proposed expansion of the Museum would provide the needed additional space for presentations to larger audiences, break out sessions for multiple smaller groups, and facilities for serving working lunches, and setting up displays for educational materials and resources.

Importantly, the technology in the expanded areas will enable larger groups of professionals participating in programs at the Museum of Tolerance to interact not only among themselves, but with colleagues and peers in other parts of the country and around the world via videoconferencing and live internet communication. This is a vital aspect of programs designed to build strategic collaboration across professional disciplines, and promote partnership between allied agencies and practitioners in the same field of work.

Along with increased space, expanded hours of operation are essential to provide effective service to professionals with varying deployment cycles and a wide range of different schedules.

Moreover, as the number of graduates grows, so too does the demand for advanced initiatives and follow-up training. Research proves that this is absolutely essential to sustain the benefits of training and support the outcomes. In order to provide this service and at the same time continue to attract new participants in foundational programs, the Museum needs additional space.

Potential for New Programs:

As a result of its robust programs, the Museum of Tolerance receives an increasing number of requests for new programs and opportunities that we are unable to deliver with the limitations of our current facilities. Chief among these is the need for the Museum to design and host symposia, plenary sessions, seminars and conferences bringing together the professional constituencies within and across the spectrum of participants in our programs and beyond.

In addition, professional organizations, corporate groups, non-profit entities, international bodies, academic institutions and business consortia avidly seek out the Museum of Tolerance as the venue for their own important events. This is because the Museum offers much more than space for a large gathering: it provides a powerful learning environment - reflecting on history, confronting the important issues affecting our world today, and visualizing the future. The added dimension of an immersive, evocative experience and the stimulus of such dynamic surroundings significantly enhance the value of such professional events.

Specialized Programs for Youth Development and Leadership Initiatives

Investing In Diversity is the MOT’s outreach program to students from economically disadvantaged neighborhoods and title one schools, providing subsidies for approximately 5000 students to enjoy an interactive, high-tech experience that inspires students to learn from the past, engage in the present, and assume responsibility for the future. Students participate in hands-on learning through multimedia exhibits and group activities. Teachers receive the Museum’s Teachers’ Guide aligned to California academic standards for prep work and follow-up to sustain the learning.

Steps to Tolerance is a distinctive and innovative program for 5th and 6th grade students. Centered in the Museum's new Youth Action Lab, the 2 ½ hour program provides developmentally appropriate experiences that introduce younger students to , artifacts, Holocaust history, and contemporary social issues.

Tools for Tolerance® for Teens is a specially designed program for middle and high school students that expands the Museum experience to include workshops that challenge youth to assume greater personal and social responsibility, to recognize and reject all forms of discrimination and to deal more sensitively with others.

O.P.T.I.O.N.S., Opportunities to Promote Tolerance and Increase Options for Non- violence and Safety, is a multi-pronged intervention for youth referred by the Juvenile Justice System. The program offers support and life skills development for responsible choices and positive outcomes.

T³ - Teens, Teachers and Tolerance brings together students, educators, parents, community members and school resource officers in a three-day comprehensive program that includes skill building workshops, special presentations and action-planning activities. The goal of T³ is to promote leadership, establish community-based networks and help to create communities of practice.

Service Learning Project Good Neighbor Student Leadership Project Designed to enable students to meet the LAUSD Service Learning requirement The Museum of Tolerance is interested in advancing civic engagement, values of respect and responsibility, and meaningful service to the LA community by offering high schools a holistic Service Learning Process. School representatives are invited to apply with a team of students who will participate in leadership and service learning training, and plan and implement a service learning project, using the powerful anti-bias perspectives and content offered through the Museum of Tolerance

Teen Court – Youth Juror Training Program SHADES (Stopping Hate and Delinquency by Empowering Students) In a new partnership with the LA Superior Court and Dept. of Probation, the MOT provides youth juror training for a specialized Teen Court that focuses on crimes rooted in prejudice and bias on inner-city campuses in . The program prepares students and their adult partners to foster at each school understanding of the negative impact of bias based conduct on the community as well as advance hate crime prevention initiatives through new community service sentencing at their schools.

After School Programs These dynamic programs expand upon the interactive experiences of the Museum’s exhibits, particularly Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves. Through arts based learning and student driven curricula, the customized programs enhance critical thinking, build interpersonal skills and advance community engagement. Supporting the positive youth development work of after school programs, these enrichment sessions empower children as they are introduced to Museums, role modes, and anti-bias education.

Bridging the Gap utilizes video conferencing to share the resources of the Museum of Tolerance with students who are unable to visit in person. Literature-based curricula enhance the virtual Museum experience. A highlight of this program is the ability for students to dialogue with a Holocaust survivor.

Children’s Educational Programs Building on the experiences for younger children in the Finding Our Families, Finding Ourselves exhibit, the MOT’s newly created Children’s Educational Programs will utilize the unique experiential learning environment of the new Youth Action Lab, and add exciting, fun-filled activities, through arts and crafts, puppetry, story telling, music, dance, roll plays and games. These innovative programs, presented in a socially safe and nurturing setting, provide educational enrichment to children during the impressionable and formative years before age twelve.

Once Upon A World Book Award A program of the SWC Library and Archives, the prestigious Children’s Book Award honors authors and illustrators of children's books, aimed at ages 6 - 10, which deal with issues of tolerance, diversity, inclusion and social justice, thus inspiring young readers to promote positive change in the world. Each year, a distinguished panel of independent judges selects a winning book that best promotes respect and understanding through words and images, and an award is given to the winner at a public program at the Museum of Tolerance.

Potential for Expansion of Existing Programs:

While the Museum of Tolerance is gratified to lead the largest number of school tours of other Museums in the area, the waiting lists of students and youth serving organizations is growing. Moreover, the Museum of Tolerance has added exhibits and interactive experiences, potentially lengthening the time student groups spend in the Museum. This necessitates a place for large numbers of students to have their lunch or snack, and places for students to receive orientation before, and debrief after their experience, away from the exhibits where other students are waiting to get in.

The Museum currently falls far short of its capacity to deliver the high quality, specialized programs listed above due to lack of facilities. The creation of the Youth Action Lab on the second floor significantly ameliorates this problem, but does not solve the need for space to hold programs that bring groups of students together. For example, the culmination of the Service Learning program is a presentation by all participating student groups of the projects they designed and implemented as part of the program. The presentations are done by dozens of students and involve hundreds of classmates, who are brought into the project. We currently do not have the capacity to host everyone together, as optimally required by the program.

The Museum has become the venue of choice as “a day on and not a day off” on important national holidays, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Students, teachers, parents, families come to the Museum throughout the day for special programs. Yet the Museum lacks a child-friendly space for these large, public educational programs and supplementary activities. The same is true for Cesar Chavez Day, Take Your Child to Work Week, No Name Calling Week, and many other occasions when the MOT is called on to provide meaningful and memorable programs, but is severely restricted by lack of appropriate facilities. The proposed expansion of the MOT with its flexible Cultural Center would solve the problem.

In addition, valuable program elements and resources provided for the customized programs for youth described above could be maximized to benefit many more Museum visitors. Dramatic performances, multimedia presentations, creative arts workshops could be shared with a much wider audience if space permitted.

Potential for New Programs: The Museum of Tolerance plays a critically important role in fostering positive youth development and leadership initiatives. As a result, we are constantly being asked to convene and administer youth congresses, conferences and seminars for local, national and, increasingly, international youth. The only obstacle - the lack of facilities for such a large scale undertaking – would be lifted with the capacity of the Cultural Center.

The Museum of Tolerance is strategically poised to launch a major new initiative for multi-generational, family oriented programs, and programs for younger children, K-4. This addresses a key facet of the Museum’s mission to provide age- appropriate, life-long learning opportunities, essential to the promotion of tolerance and mutual respect. For this, the Museum requires flexible, child-friendly, spacious areas for the arts based activities, performances, films and programs appropriate for this audience. The Cultural Center would serve this need well.

The Museum of Tolerance frequently partners with school districts, informal educational programs, and youth serving organizations. These partners look to the Museum to provide the resources and the capacity to host events, initiatives and programs that advance the common goals of empowering youth and building an informed, responsible citizenry. The expansion of the MOT would enable us to fulfill this expectation.

General Programs:

Eye Witness Testimonies Holocaust Survivors share their testimonies in person with Museum visitors on a weekly basis. Ask A Survivor is an online program that offers students, researchers and others the ability to contact a survivor online in order to ask questions and receive answers. Requests can be made through the Library and Archives web page. From Hate to Hope is the remarkable story of confrontation and reconciliation between the perpetrator and victim of a hate crime, who now both work at the Museum of Tolerance. From the Depths of Hate is a first hand account of the personal journey of a former white supremacist.

Arts and Lectures Programs Throughout the year, the MOT hosts premium Arts & Lectures public programs featuring lectures by distinguished authors and scholars, artistic performances in drama, dance, music and art, literary presentations and panel discussions. The Arts & Lectures programs encompass a broad array of important topics and cultural interests, offering outstanding, innovative programs with wide audience appeal. These programs have become the first choice for public programs of great social importance.

Film Series The power of film to captivate audience attention, convey forceful messages and create unforgettable images has made film screenings at the Museum of Tolerance one of its most important programs. World renowned directors, producers, studios, and foreign film associations, have sought out the MOT in Los Angeles to showcase their work. The experience is enhanced by lively discussions with the filmmakers, writers, directors and actors, and the audience. Among the many Academy Award™ winners who have participated in Center/Museum of Tolerance film screenings in the past are: Steven Spielberg, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Sir Ben Kingsley, Angelina Jolie, Peter Jackson, Roberto Benigni, Charlize Theron, and Alec Baldwin.

Landmark Exhibitions An essential dimension of every prestigious museum, helping to keep the institution vital, dynamic and relevant, is a program of changing special exhibitions. The MOT landmark Exhibitions ensure a steady rotation of premier exhibitions in the Sohacheski Gallery. Exhibitions comprise fine art, photography, archival materials, sculpture, rare books and manuscripts, audiovisual presentations, interactive modalities and other media. They feature the creative work of myriad artists and curators worldwide, covering a broad array of subjects historic and contemporary.

Special Events Throughout the year, the Museum of Tolerance hosts major community events, including Commemoration programs for Yom Hashoah, Kristallnacht, 9/11, the Genocide in Rwanda, and many more. The Museum has become the venue of choice for public forums on important social issues, such as Public Safety and Security, and The Greening of America. The candidates in gubernatorial, senatorial, congressional, and mayoral races popularly debate at the MOT, and plays and concerts, such as the Daniel Pearl music festive for peace are performed at the MOT. Although the MOT is apolitical, it does not shy away from controversy, and provides a safe, neutral space for people on opposing sides of an issue or conflict to come together and seek common ground. The significant role of the MOT in civic discourse and social justice makes it a first choice for film studios to premier films on socially conscious topics, community groups to conduct debates, international NGOs and Human Rights groups to host programs, exhibitions and events at the MOT.

Potential for Expansion of Existing Programs:

Public Programs, Seminars and Symposia, Arts and Lectures Series, Films, and Exhibitions have the greatest potential for expansion with additional space at the MOT. The MOT is currently severely restricted in its ability to conduct many of these programs, as the only suitable place available for many of them is in the Memorial Plaza, where programs are limited to a couple each year.

The expansive, enclosed area of the Cultural Center will make it possible for the MOT to attract significantly larger audiences for major programs commemorating historic events, important dates, and national holidays. It will also enable the MOT to host delegates attending conventions and conferences in the area, a frequent request that we are presently unable to entertain.

The Museum of Tolerance is often the venue for press conferences and media interviews. The new expansion to the MOT will provide a suitable place for a press bridge and a designated area to stage this activity.

Expanded hours of operation will also enable increasing numbers of programs and larger numbers of new and different participants.

A new, enlarged and strategically placed Museum Store will facilitate the promotion of educational materials and resources, as well as mementos and gifts, that enhance the Museum visit and provide added revenues.

Potential for New Programs:

The chorus of requests for the MOT to host important national and international conferences has risen to a crescendo in recent years, as the strategically pivotal role of the Museum becomes more widely recognized. The new Cultural Center will provide a premium space for such conferences, organized by the and the Museum of Tolerance, often in partnership with numerous other players.

The new space will also give the MOT the added capacity necessary to explore “blockbuster” exhibitions, which are beyond the size and scope of what can be accommodated in the present gallery.

Messages of tolerance and peace are often best conveyed through music and art. Concerts, like the global young musicians’ symphony for peace arranged by Jordanian musician, Zade Dirani, would become viable, once the area of the Memorial Plaza is incorporated into the Museum building.

The powerful and meaningful environment of the MOT makes it an attractive venue for corporate and/or private events. Heretofore, the MOT has been unable to entertain third party events, which are a vitally important source of revenue and an excellent mechanism for public relations and outreach. The addition of catering facilities supports these new activities.