The purpose of the Implicit Bias Workforce Training institutes are to provide a training platform for community and technical college workforce leaders, professional technical department chairs, faculty, staff, counselors, navigators, administrators, deans and registered apprenticeship programs in Washington State.

Given the persistent displays of implicit and explicit discrimination experienced by many, we recognize that bias is not just the random acts of the few misguided, but the result of our history which rank-orders the worth of individuals based on race, social class, gender, sexuality, ability, etc.

The Implicit Bias Workforce Training institutes include four levels of training, Cycle I, II, III and IV building upon each other, scaffolding up each Cycle, a graduated scale of complexity.

The Institutes Will:

* Provide working tools and processes to become campus and program advocates of efforts to identify and reduce the unconscious biases that hinder student and faculty success and enrich the overall campus climate.

* Build and sustain diversity and inclusion initiatives, by building a cohort of campus champions to identify and strategically reduce bias at all critical decision-points through the examination and implementation of policies and practices within each respective campus and apprenticeship programs.

* Support the professional development of workforce leaders, advocates and champions.

Lead Facilitator: Dr. Rita Cameron-Wedding, Ph.D.

Professor of Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State University. Dr. Cameron Wedding’s work includes trainings and keynotes on implicit bias for the Texas New Judges College, the National Association of Children’s Counsel, the Family Court of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Child Abuse and Neglect Institutes in Reno, Louisville, and Atlanta, the New York State Judicial Institute, Superior Court Judges in Hawaii and Illinois and the Michigan Judges Association.

Details:

* Day one will be on Thursday 4/16/20, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

* Day two will be on Friday 4/17/20, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm.

* Training will include training materials, pre & post-institute support and resources, light breakfast and lunch for both days.

*Upon receipt of RSVP an invoice will be sent to you for the $150 registration fee.

Implicit Bias Workforce Training Institute Cycle I - East