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This training lays the foundation for a common understanding of the breadth and depth of racism and its impact on all aspects of society. Experiencing the History of Systemic Oppression in community increases awareness and commitment to racial equity. 

Activities and exercises address:

• Community Agreements for engaging in learning together
• History of Race & Racism in the US Timeline
• Unpacking our personal histories of race and racism
• Data on the material impact of racism today
• Stereotypes, prejudice & bias
• Social identity and perspective
• Intersectionality and the complexity of belonging
• Looking through the lens of diversity, equity & inclusion
• Language for talking about race, ethnicity and racism

This training teaches skills for respectful and equitable interactions to improve employee and client experiences. 

Activities, exercises and scenarios address:

• Allyship: dos and don’ts, strategies for “finding your lane”
• Language for talking about racism
• Microaggressions: skills for examining and shifting everyday expressions of bias
• Calling-in templates for those who are intentionally or unintentionally causing harm
• Six tools for effectively and respectfully interrupting racism
• Apology exercises for healing and strengthening relationships
• Strategies for checking and leveraging privilege
• Engaging with cultural humility
• How to move beyond fragility: perspective, courage and racial stamina

This training is designed for those in leadership, supervisory and decision-making positions interested in solutions for amplifying racial equity and inclusion in employment practices. 

Activities and exercises address:

• Hiring practices and policies to amplify diversity, equity and inclusion
• Salaries, job titles and structural practices embedded with bias
• HR policy barriers and amplifiers of racial equity
• Workplace culture: cultural humility and practices of micro and macro-inclusion
• Supervisory practices that can make or break racial equity
• Mentorship, placement and paths to leadership
• Communicating through conflict and across difference
• Accountability, assessment and strategic planning
• Using a Racial Equity Impact Assessment Tool for planning and decision-making

This training examines the programs, services and method of delivery that your organization provides. Participants will learn to use a Racial Equity Impact Assessment Tool for planning events, developing programs and creating policies. 

Activities, exercises and scenarios examine:

• Clients, participants, beneficiaries of your services
• Ethics of serving communities of which you are not a member
• Eligibility guidelines and application requirements
• Services, programs, events, curriculum and other offerings to those you serve
• Marketing, messaging, reaching those you wish to serve
• Location, space and accessibility
• Service culture: communication, collaborations, inclusion, demographics of providers, cultural humility and cultural competence
• Community partnerships, allyship and bridge-building
• Restorative justice practices: alternatives to cycles of punishment and exclusion

Dealing with racism from clients is an added burden for health and human service workers of color already employed in a stressful industry. Too often, institutions lack protocols and staff simply don’t know what to do. Employees of color are left to look the other way or simply rise above clients’ racist remarks. This can weaken morale, causing alienation and creating a hostile climate for employees of color. Participants will leave with practical skills to address racism from clients, which can teach clients important social skills, increase trust amongst staff and improve your institution’s reputation. 

This training will teach participants:

• Rights and responsibilities of the institution, employees, and clients
• Strategies for assessing different forms of bias and discrimination and identifying a range of appropriate responses
• Templates for engaging in dialogue with clients who express racism
• Educational opportunities and strategies to set clients up for success
• Comprehensive steps to support staff
• Institutional protocols

If your organization jumped on board the antiracism bandwagon in 2020 but hasn’t made much progress beyond posting a DEI statement, you are not alone. Many companies have found themselves stuck at the start, unsure of what to do or how to proceed. Some created diversity committees that have struggled to gain traction, maintain or have become more of a support group. If any of this sounds familiar, join the Fair and Impartial foundation who will help make a difference and outline the steps of creating a racial equity strategic plan, including strategies for creating an effective diversity committee. This presentation will also feature insights of diversity executives who have made strong progress on their racial equity strategic plans.

This training explores fundamental concepts related to diversity, equity and inclusion for those new to the organization and for organizations just beginning to incorporate DEIB principles to their mission. (12 hours). 

This curriculum is designed to teach participants to:

• Use respectful, appropriate language when discussing social identity groups 
• Identify commonly targeted social identity groups  
• Define terminology and concepts relating to social bias, discrimination and harassment  
• Look through the lens of diversity, equity and inclusion to increase awareness of power imbalances  
• Analyze prejudice, bias, stereotypes – how they are created, manifested and tools for un-learning them 
• Explore power, privilege and perspective
• Engage with cultural humility 
• Amplify individual and collective responsibility
• Utilize strategies for creating welcoming, inclusive and equitable environments

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Operation, Stage 1.

• This training is for organizations that have completed the Fair and Impartial’s Step 1 courses and are ready to make meaningful, systemic changes to operationalize diversity, equity and inclusion. This training invites participants to:
• Explore the organization’s history of diversity, equity & inclusion (data collection & analysis)
• Recognize and amplify what is working and opportunities for improvement
• Identify barriers to DEI within the organization
• Practice skills for respectful communication, engagement and team building
• Create a DEI Roadmap with specific goals, objectives, timeline, division of responsibilities, leadership and necessary resources
• Develop a method and rubric for assessing ecacy and success of actions
• Gain tools for interrupting systemic inequities
• Brainstorm strategies to increase participation in and commitment to the DEI Roadmap

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Operation, Stage 2.

(8 hours).

This training is a follow-up to: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Operation, Stage 1.

Participants will:

• Review the goals and objectives outlined in DEIB1
• Review the progress of each item on the timeline
• Consider the efficacy of objectives
• Identify and amplify what is working
• Identify barriers to implementation and progress
• Assess and identify skills, resources, institutional support, community buy-in any unexpected side effects related to implementing the Roadmap
• Specify any needed revisions to the Roadmap in or to the
• DEIB goals and objectives of the organization

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in Operation, Stage 2.

(12 hours). 

This training is designed for those in leadership, supervisory and decision-making positions interested in solutions for amplifying diversity, equity and inclusion in employment practices.

Participants are invited to:

• Create a diversity, equity and inclusion mission statement
• Review data on workplace hiring, leadership and wage gaps
• Identify employment policies and practices that hinder diversity, equity and inclusion
• Explore workplace culture
• Consider the impact of historical inequities and trauma on workplace dynamics
• Examine and problem-solve scenarios and case studies
• Consider neutral versus greenlining policies
• Use a DEIB Impact Assessment Tool
• Develop policies and practices to amplify diversity, equity and inclusion

This training has been designed to increase participants’ awareness of a range of hateful rhetoric and behaviors that can silence, disenfranchise and encourage violence against specific targeted groups. Our team will provide tools for effectively interrupting harmful behavior and strategies for creating healthy workplace and community norms based on diversity, equity and inclusion. 

We can customize Interrupting Prejudice & Hate to particular industries and specific forms of prejudice and hate. 

This program includes our half-day Ethical Advocates training. 

Depending on the workshop focus, possible outcomes include:

• Identify who is at risk for being targeted and who is at risk for perpetrating hate crimes
• A deeper understanding of the history of prejudice and hate in the United States
• Understanding the legal definition of discrimination, harassment, assault and hate crimes
• Identify common manifestations of prejudice, hate and their prevalence
• Developing preemptive strategies to support safe, respectful, inclusive environments
• Use Ethical Advocates' strategies to effectively interrupt potentially harmful situations
• Learning strategies for respectfully reach those who are engaging in harm
• Community and individual safety considerations

Equity in Gender and Inclusivity Trainings 

(12 hours)

This training explores the reasons to promote gender equity and inclusion – why and how it can benefit your workplace. We will examine the barriers that prevent gender equity and inclusion and strategies for removing those barriers.

During the full 12-hour training, participants will: 

• Identify a range of benefits to increasing gender equity and inclusion in their workplace. 
• Explore attitudes, behaviors, policies and practices that create barriers to gender equity and inclusion.
• Engage in activities to respectfully dialogue across dierence to address challenges. 
• Analyze their workplace culture to consider strengths and to identify opportunities for growth.  
• Use a variety of upstander tools to eectively interrupt potentially harmful situations. 
• Explore recruitment, training, mentoring, supervision, evaluation and retention strategies.  
• Identify specific strategies for addressing bias and preventing discrimination and harassment.
• The 12-hour version of this workshop includes our half-day Ethical Advocates Training.

This modules are designed to teach participants to:

• Use respectful, appropriate language when discussing social identity groups 
• Identify commonly targeted social identity groups  
• Define terminology and concepts relating to social bias, discrimination and harassment  
• Look through the lens of diversity, equity and inclusion to increase awareness of power imbalances  
• Analyze prejudice, bias, stereotypes – how they are created, manifested and tools for un-learning them 
• Explore power, privilege and perspective
• Engage with cultural humility 
• Amplify individual and collective responsibility
• Utilize strategies for creating welcoming, inclusive and equitable environments

Preventing Gender Discrimination Level 1: Amplifying Awareness (6 hours)

This training is designed to increase participants’ awareness of the roots of gender discrimination in US history and its present-day manifestations. 

At the completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Have a deeper understanding of the history of gender discrimination in the United States
• Understand definitions and manifestations of gender discrimination
• Identify the material impact of gender discrimination today
• Recognize gender bias, stereotypes and utilize strategies for challenging them
• Consider gender discrimination through an intersectional lens
• Identify practices to amplify gender equity

Interrupting Gender Discrimination Level 2: Sexual Harassment & Violence (6 hours).

This training provides and overview of the breadth and depth of sexual harassment and violence, and includes our Ethical Advocates training. 

Participants will:

• Define sexual harassment and assault and recognize their manifestations
• Understand the frequency, scope and impact of sexual harassment & assault
• Identify who is at greatest risk for being targeted and for committing the harm
• Recognize rape culture and its expressions and manifestations in pop-culture
• Recognize how and why our culture engages in victim-blaming
• Demonstrate effective allyship with those who have been targeted
• Understand intersectionality and ways harassment and discrimination impact specific social identity groups
• Develop specific strategies for preventing sexual harassment and violence
• Engage in scenarios using our Ethical Advocates toolkit

Creating a Transgender & Gender Queer Inclusive Workplace (4 hours).

This training is designed to increase awareness, empathy and recognition of bias and inclusive practices. Participants will identify the promoters and inhibitors of gender equity and inclusion in the workplace. 

Workshop includes:

• Gender Bias: what it is, how we learn it, how we can unlearn it
• Language, communication and the etiquette of respect and inclusion
• Promoters and inhibitors of gender diversity, equity & inclusion
• Allyship and strategies for interrupting harmful behavior
• Action plan: strategic shifts for individual and workplace transformation to create a trans & gender queer welcoming and inclusive workplace

This training explores the reasons to promote gender equity and inclusion – how and why it can benefit your workplace. We will examine the barriers that prevent gender equity and inclusion and go over strategies for removing those barriers. 

During the training, participants will: 

This core module  provides participants with the basic tools to become an active bystander. At the completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Recognize biased or potentially harmful behavior
• Identify commonly targeted social identity groups
• Understand and counter the “bystander eect” psychology at the root of inaction
• Use a variety of strategies to eectively interrupt potentially harmful situations
• Support those who have been targeted
• Respectfully “call in” those in our community who are doing the harm
• Our Ethical Advocates Trainings pair with any of our diversity trainings to create a dynamic, change-oriented learning experience. 
• This program is also a prerequisite (either on its own or included in another program) for our Ethical Advocates Train the Trainer (EUT) program.

Ethical Advocates Train the Trainer EAT

(20 hours)

This program trains members of your team to provide Ethical Advocates Training to others within your organization. Call for more information. 

Practice dynamic strategies to create respectful and inclusive environments, while increasing awareness of the context and conditions in which assault and harassment thrive and harm all members of the community. 

(6-12 hours)

Upon completion of the 12-hour training, participants will:

• Understand the frequency,scope, and damage causedby harassment and assault
• Recognize sexual harassment and assault and theirmanifestations
• Identify who is at risk—either for being harmed or committing the harm
• Understand the concept of “rape culture” and its manifestations in daily life
• Recognize and avoid the phenomenon of victim-blaming
• Demonstrate a range of strategies for eectively interrupting sexual harassment & assault
• Identify specific policies and practices for preventing sexual harassment & assault

Workplace Harassment: Prevention and Response (3 hours)

This training is designed to increase awareness and prevention of harassment in the workplace. Scenarios and case studies provide participants an opportunity to practice.

Topics include:

• Definitions of key compliance terms
• An explanation of the laws relating to harassment and discrimination
• The impact of harassment and discrimination in the workplace
• Recommendations for appropriately responding to and reporting misconduct
• Strategies for creating and maintaining a respectful, inclusive workplace

Black, Indigenous, People of Color Group Facilitation

A Fair and Impartial BIPOC team member will facilitate discussions and self-reflective exercises; provide relevant articles, short videos, and activities to:

• Hold space to share/express the trauma of racism and other forms of systemic prejudice
• Create supportive community
• Identify barriers to racial equity within workplace/community
• Identify priorities, goals, objectives for amplifying racial equity
• Identify areas for collaboration
• Develop skills for self-advocacy, interrupting racism and leadership
• Practice skills using real-life scenarios

Creating a Sense of Belonging

This workshop helps engage community agreements, effective communication and skill building for healthy, respectful and equitable engagement in the service of amplifying diversity, equity and inclusion. Participants are invited to: