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Welcome to the 2020 Recruit, Train, Retain Virtual Workshop !
*new dates TBD*
The Recruit, Train, and Retain Series is a workshop series that started in 2012 and was designed to assist managers and direct service staff to build and keep happy and lasting teams. For those who have not joined us for one of these events in the past, this event combines training from leaders in the field with interactive dialogue to create a time to connect, brainstorm, and network with others in the supported employment field about how to find (and keep) a dynamic and high performing team that is able to further the mission of employment for all.
Attendees are typically program managers, senior employment consultants and emerging leaders (employment specialists) within adult service agencies.
Please join us in welcoming our special guest speaker, ChrisTiana ObeySumner!
CEO and principal consultant, ChrisTiana ObeySumner has dedicated nearly two decades of their life and career to amplifying the importance of social equity through the lenses of critical race theory and existential social psychology –particularly through frameworks of: Narrative identity development and its role in cultural humility and allyship; Intersectionality and social models of disability justice; Bridging awareness to the lived experience of race, racism, racialized ableism and antiblackness, and; Dismantling neuropsychological and psychosocial paradigms underlying social injustice and inaction. These goals are pursued through social impact and accountability measurement structures, mentoring, public speaking/yelling, and grassroots community advocacy.
Check out their organization, Epiphanies of Equity, LLC here.
Anticipated outcomes for ChrisTiana's training will include:
- How to examine social impact and structural barriers for improving diversity and belongingness in the recruitment process and the workplace.
- How to practice self- and organizational evaluation of workplace environment and cultures that impact or instigate belongingness or othering.
- Developing targeted strategies for retention of staff using equitable and culturally humble practices rooted in shared, universal goals. Participants will consider intersectional lived experiences, critical consciousness, and how belongingness within larger systems or institutions of inequity can impact the workplace and employee retention.
- Participants will be acquainted with basic elements equity and social justice, leadership development, diversifying leadership, and intersectionality.