Total Inclusion
Developed in partnership with our Total Inclusion Visit Team program, this Self Reflection Tool gives you a free and easy to use first step in your inclusion journey. While this isn’t meant to replace other opportunities, it does give you a series of guided questions to consider as you look at your camp and its inclusion work. Download the Total Inclusion Self Reflection Tool PDF.
Total Inclusion! Widening the Welcome at ELCA Outdoor Ministries is a collaborative effort of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) churchwide organization and the Lutheran Outdoor Ministries network (LOM). Total Inclusion! is an opportunity to inspire, educate and provide resources to LOM organizations as they move toward a wider and more intentional inclusion of people who historically have been marginalized in the church — especially people of color, people with disabilities and people who are LGBTQIA+.
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Inclusion and Diversity Resources
Eliminate barriers and embrace inclusion in the context of camp, church and similar settings.
Including Total Inclusion
- Self Reflection Tool
For Outdoor Ministry Organizations to evaluate their current inclusion work
Including People of Color
- Beloved Community
Equity audits, courses, consulting - Cultural Diversity Competency (American Camp Association)
Camp staff resource about cultural competency - Many Voices
Black church movement for gay and transgender justice - Racism in the Outdoors (American Hiking Society)
Resources focused on racism in the outdoors - Social Justice Ministry (ELCA)
Social justice and race-related ministry resources - Together We Rise
2015 ELCA Youth Gathering Racial Awareness Training Leader Guide
Including People Who Are LGBTQIA+
- Institute for Welcoming Resources (Ecumenical)
Youth and Young Adult print, online, audiovisual resources - Light to All in the House (Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries)
Workshops to welcome LGBTQIA+ pastors - Our Whole Lives (United Church of Christ)
Sexuality and faith education for various age groups - Treasure in Clay Jars (Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries)
Stories of LGBTQIA+ leaders in the Lutheran church
Including People Living with Disabilities
- A Camp for Everyone (United Cerebral Palsy of Delaware)
Guide to including children of all abilities in summer camp programs - Bethesda Faith Resources
Faith support for inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities - “How Can Churches and Other Organizations Be More Accessible to People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing?”
Making worship services more accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing - Including Campers With Disabilities (Foundation for Jewish Camp)
Learning from inclusion coordinators about including campers with disabilities - Kids Included Together
Online and onsite training, coaching, consulting and resources to help organizations meaningfully include kids with disabilities - MOSAIC — Church Relations
Helping people with disabilities find a welcoming home in the church - National Inclusion Project
Training, tools, consulting so children with disabilities can be included in all activities - Special Needs (American Camp Association)
Camp staff resource about special needs - Varied Abilities Ministry (ELCA)
Varied abilities ministry resources
General Inclusion Resources
- Implicit Bias Tests (Project Implicit)
Implicit bias tests from Harvard University - "Respect is a Summer Camp Essential" (Anti-Defamation League)
Anti-bias guide for counselors and camp administrators - The Summer Camp Society
Inclusion specialist training, "the hidden curriculum," free resources, paid programs and consulting
Language and Terminology
Resources for talking about inclusion, bias, disabilities, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression.
General Language and Terminology Guides
- Anti-Bias Education Glossary of Terms
Anti-Defamation League - Inclusive Language Guide
The Family Institute at Northwestern University
Language and Terminology Around Disabilities
- Language Around Disability
ELCA - Language Around Disability blog by Anita Smallin & Rev. Lisa Heffernan
ELCA
Language and Terminology Around Race
- Racial Justice/Anti-Racism Definitions
ELCA - “Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversations About Race and Racism”
Anti-Defamation League - Talking About Race
National Museum of African American History & Culture
Language and Terminology Around Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression
Articles and Books
- "Anti-racism, Equity Education & Youth Voice Tools You Can Use Right Now – Virtually or In-person"
Ursula Helminski, Afterschool Alliance - "Unpacking White Privilege"
Judith Roberts, Living Lutheran - "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators"
Peggy McIntosh, The National SEED Project - Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship
John Swinton - The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God
Amos Young - Dear Church: A Love Letter From a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S.
Lenny Duncan - Disability and the Way of Jesus: Holistic Healing in the Gospels and the Church
Bethany McKinney Fox - The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability
Nancy L. Eisland - God Plays Piano, Too: The Spiritual Lives of Disabled Children
Brett Webb-Mitchell - Queerfully and Wonderfully Made
Leigh Finke, Ed. - Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope
Richard M. Cohen - Vulnerable Communion: A Theology of Disability and Hospitality
Thomas E. Reynolds - Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Debby Irving - White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
