Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Description: This course will teach you how to create inclusive spaces for LGBTQ+ colleagues, friends, city residents, and visitors. In this foundational course, we'll review LGBTQ+ issues with a focus on issues that impact transgender people and LGBTQ+ inclusion best practices to create a welcoming environment in your workplace and beyond. The second half of the course builds on that foundation as we dive deeper into institutional inequity for LGBTQ+ people. We will discuss how to recognize institutional bias and create systemic change, and reflect & discuss how to involve the voices of those who matter in City operations decision-making.

Resources:

• Creating a Gender-Inclusive Workplace 101 Companion Guide
• Creating a Gender-Inclusive Workplace 101 Slide Deck

Facilitator: Molly Herrmann - Humble Pie Consulting

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Topic & start-time guide below:

• 0:00 - Welcome
• 2:43 - Content Note
• 3:45 - Intersections of LGBTQ+ Identities
• 7:06 - LGBTQ+ Vocabulary
• 27:42 - Activity
• 34:36 - Gendered vs. Inclusive or Neutral-Language
• 36:30 - Data
• 44:39 - Creating an Inclusive Workplace
• 53:15 - How does the City Uphold Institutional Bias & What Can It Do to Change?
• 1:10:20 - Closing

Description: How can you be inclusive and respectful with people of all genders? With verbal and written examples, you will leave this training with specific strategies in using language that shows your coworkers and community members of all genders that you value them.

Resources:

• Gender-Inclusive Language Companion Guide
• Gender-Inclusive Language Slide Deck
• Gender-Inclusive Language Learner Material - Practice and Tip Sheet

Facilitator: AJ Hardie - OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center

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• An Introduction to Gender-Inclusive Language - 27:42
• Gender Inclusivity & Pronouns - 24:02
• Gender-Inclusive Demographic Forms - 21:17

Description: This session is about unpacking ableism from its roots in history, anti-Blackness, eugenics, misogyny, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism.  We will examine how models of disability are mobilized today to institutionalize, segregate, and disempower people with disabilities.  Often issues of race and gender are not centered in disability spaces and issues of disability are not centered in race and gender-centered spaces. This session is designed to foster solidarity for stronger movement work. In this approachable and conversational training, you will learn (and unlearn) different social narratives of disability and how Disabled people throughout history have informed their own sense of identity. We'll explore movements rooted in disability rights, the social model of disability and disability justice.

Resources: 

• Models of Disability Slide Deck
• Disability Resources

Facilitator: Rebecca Hoyt, Department of Civil Rights

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Description: This course is for supervisors who want to learn how to better support your LGBTQ+ staff. In this course you'll review: Tips and insights into how to foster an inclusive work environment, your responsibilities as a supervisor to your LGBTQ+ staff, and actionable ways to promote inclusion within your team. We recommend you first watch Creating a Gender-Inclusive Workplace 101 before this course.

Resources:

• Supervisors Building a Gender-Inclusive Workplace Companion Guide
• Supervisors Building a Gender-Inclusive Workplace Slide Deck
• In Course Examples Handout

Facilitator: Molly Herrmann - Humble Pie Consulting

Access the Recording (43 minutes)

Topic & start-time guide below:

• 3 minutes - See topic & start-time guide below.
  • 0:00 - Welcome
  • 4:12 - Rights of Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Employees
  • 10:15 - Responsibilities of Supervisors to Enforce APM 2-52 & Examples
    • 15:16 - Responsibility Example A
    • 19:35 - Responsibility Example B
    • 23:50 - Responsibility Example C
    • 28:12 - Responsibility Example D
    • 31:24 - Responsibility Example E
  • 38:40 - Closing

Description: What can we do to make workplaces more welcoming to people living with disabilities? Representation advocate, Tiffany Yu, shares three ways that employers can change and tap into every worker's skills and gifts. 
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Cost: Free

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Description: Department of Civil Rights curated list of learning resources for

Racial Equity and Social Justice.

Cost: Free

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