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[COLLABORATION & SUPPORT]

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Teaching is a rewarding career,

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especially at the college level,
where students are engaged

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and hungry for new knowledge,
experiences and opportunities.

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[I CAN SURROUND MYSELF WITH PEOPLE 
WHO SUPPORT AND CHALLENGE ME]

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But that doesn't mean

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being an educator doesn't
come with its own challenges.

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The California Community

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Colleges system is one defined
by collaboration and support.

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A tight knit community
where your colleagues

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are more than coworkers, but
a support system of mentors, champions,

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and friends.

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[Latoya Jackson]
[Director of Diversity Equal Employment
Opportunity, Sierra College]

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The support
that's been available to employees,

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as we have established five employee
resource groups that really help provide

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support and community for our employees,

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both on campus and outside of campus.

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And so those five employee resource groups
support our employees who self-identify

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as Black or African American, Latinx,
Latin,

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Asian, Asian-American, Two-spirit,

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LGBTQ plus, as well as all employees

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who self-identify as black, indigenous,
and people of color or BIPOC.

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And so I think that's been
a tremendous support for for folks,

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especially folks from marginalized
communities, to be able to find,

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community, and within the workplace
as well as outside of the workplace.

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[Ignacio Taylor]
[Student, California Community College]

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I work at

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the Native American Resource Center, but,
IRC has been a big part of my healing

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journey and, helping
me, you know, walked right past.

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It's just a big community, a big family.

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And we all come together
and, we talk about things, you know, we,

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help each other with school work.

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You know, we just we're all walking
this path together and trying

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to help each other in our healing journey,
and that's really what it is.

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It provides resources and, all aspects of
in school and outside of school.

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Like transportation
computers, food vouchers, book vouchers,

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all these things that you kind of need
just to get around in school

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and to be successful in school,
which are best to provide these resources

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as, as well as the healing in
their journey, in their path.

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