If the group is having trouble generating ideas for next steps, these suggestions can help get things started:

Call your representative and express your opinion about the resettlement of refugees and asylum seekers and improving conditions in refugee camps and reparations for the Yazidi people. Learn about related initiatives through a study commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace.

Learn more about Yazidi culture and history through books, films and other media.

Learn about the destruction of sites of Yazidi cultural heritage through the Forensic Architecture project, in collaboration with Yazda.

Look for opportunities to spend time with Yazidis who may have relocated to your community. Learn about their history and culture directly from them through community convenings and events. Consider mentoring child refugees in English or other subjects.

Stand up against religious persecution in your own community when you encounter it. Report acts of violence against minority religious groups and minority groups more broadly.

Host teach-ins to discuss religious and cultural tolerance in your own community.

Organize story-listening trainings to help people learn how to engage in trauma-informed story-listening and how to integrate listening into action.

Volunteer with organizations support Yazidis and other refugees who have been persecuted.

If you don’t have time to volunteer but you can donate, research organizations or ways to directly support individuals who have faced persecution. Make sure you have vetted these organizations before you donate.

Monitor and call out unethical reporting in social media. Educate yourself and others about ethical reporting and balancing the needs of trauma survivors against the public right/interest to know of atrocities.