Diversity Focus

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Diversity Focus is available to provide training to your organization either at your location or at the Diversity Focus office. Click here to learn more or to request diversity training.

SHIFT* Speaker Series

• 2010 Speakers - featuring three internationally renowned speakers that will SHIFT how you think about diversity, challenge what you know about it and leave you with a new sense of the future and the global perspective that will be a requirement for success in the future.

Conferences

• Emerging Leaders Conference - Designed for current and up and coming leaders in the community, our Emerging Leaders Conferences will show you how to initiate and or support diversity & inclusion efforts. These day long events are facilitated by internationally renowned presenters and qualify 10 hours toward SHRM recertification.

• Student Diversity Leadership Conference - develops leadership skills in students by offering opportunities for students to understand diversity and its impact on the community and the global marketplace. A keynote motivational speaker will offer insight to the path of successful leadership. The students will participate in interactive workshops that will provide a safe environment to engage in facilitated dialogue about diverse relationships and inclusion. Proficient facilitators will guide the student’s experience. The conference allows each participant skills to enhance interpersonal skills and communication among their peers, faculty, within their community and beyond.

Trainings

• Crash Dialogues - Transformative workshop based on the multiple Oscar winning movie "Crash" which brings awareness to personal attitudes and beliefs about diversity and creates a safe environment to have honest conversations about race and diversity.

• Diversity & Inclusion/Cultural CompetencyDiversity & Inclusion/Cultural Competency** - 8 2-hour modules at Diversity Focus office or your organization as requested. These two-hour modules build on learning outcomes from the previous module and culminate with Diversity Focus Cultural Competency Certification.

Other Comprehensive Resources

• FINDIT! - An online resource where new employees can find everything from local personal grooming providers, to houses or worship, to lifestyle groups with everything in between. Findit! is also a repository of ethnic services, diversity resources and opportunities. Current information includes 300 services, organizations and institutions with new entities added daily.*

• Ambassador program - Matches new employees or community member (and family if requested) with existing community members who volunteer to help and individual and or family get acclimated and oriented to the area, access services and resources, share the history and culture of the region along with other information and interaction identified by the candidate.

• Inclusive Communities Publication Bi-annual publication highlighting various people from diverse backgrounds.

• Spanish Conversation Circle - Informal gatherings to converse in Spanish, build community and network. No need to be Spanish speaking to have a valuable experience in this group.

Consultations/Presentations

• Cultural Climate Study - First-of-its-kind study to establish community baseline data to access current attitudes about diversity and inclusion.