The organization runs the HOPE center in Makeni, Sierra Leone which provides trainings, support groups, meetings and career development to women in the community.
This was in addition to the news that Bratton wants 1,000 new cops, which (coupled with trainings and re-trainings) would cost the taxpayer somewhere around $30 million.
This includes all re-training of counsellors, and other trainings which may or may not have been related to the intervention.
Teachers volunteer their time to attend trainings, which are often held over weekends.
The teacher trainings, which many students use to become yoga instructors but others use simply to improve their skills, are an important source of income for some studios.
At the end of trainings, which lasted for 2 weeks, both groups filled the questionnaires.
Kristie Blanchet, chairperson for the region's People Advocating Recovery nonprofit, which conducted the trainings, said the response from police has been inconsistent.
Then, the participants completed two "counter-stereotype trainings," which involved looking at different faces -- black and white, male and female -- paired with words on a computer screen (see diagram).
There is also an approximately 90-day government approval process for every 3½-day course and shorter trainings, which makes it logistically difficult to hold more of them, according to Christina Supinski, AEquitas' chief operating officer.
Implicit bias trainings, which seem to focus on raising awareness of nonconscious or implicit biases, often do so without situating those biases alongside explicit biases, systemic or institutional biases, and other issues that are likely to swamp any effects of implicit bias awareness-raising.
