Allies Against Hate: A School-Based Diversity Sensitivity Training Experience

Abstract

This article describes a nine-year partnership between a counselor education program and school district forged to address the rapidly expanding diversity in a Midwestern city. Approximately 350 counselors-in-training have participated in a service-learning project required in their group counseling theory class to facilitate small psychoeducational groups on diversity for approximately 9000 high school students. The authors describe the multicultural education; school/university partnerships and service learning; the program and participants; application of group work; program evaluation, and recommendations for future research.