Guidelines for unit leaders: Acknowledging collective tragedies and hateful incidents

This resource offers general guidelines for UBC unit leaders seeking to acknowledge collective tragedies, hate crimes, or other forms of identity-based discrimination and violence that may have impacted specific groups within our community.

At these times, the immediate goals of unit leaders should be to:

• Convey care to the people within the unit who are most adversely affected.
• Communicate resources for mental health.
• Support existing or new affinity groups through funding or the allocation of resources, such as food, and time and space for affected people to connect with their affinity groups during work hours.
• Communicate the Executive’s response to people within a unit.