"Diversity leadership: Healing & Dealing" Jan. 14-16, NYC

[Michelle Quinn-Davidson]

YouthBuild Academy for Transformation presents

"Diversity Leadership:  Healing & Dealing"

<p>New York, NY  * January 14-16, 2004

Diversity challenges abound.

We all want to be more confident and skilled in handling them.

Join your colleagues in expanding your diversity practice in order to 
build a more welcoming, pro-active and powerful program.

Come to "Diversity Leadership: Healing and Dealing" and you will:

*                learn tools and processes for approaching diversity work 
both personally and professionally;

*                become familiar with frameworks for identifying the 
subtle perpetuation of oppression and how to dismantle it; and

*                receive coaching and walk away with a diversity action 
plan.

For more than 15 years, YouthBuild USA and YouthBuild programs have been 
working on the conflicts, complexities, and challenges of doing diversity 
work with young people. The YouthBuild Diversity Working Group has 
collected and built on this rich source of knowledge and experience, 
combined it with learnings from the larger field of diversity workers, and 
created a powerful learning experience, "Diversity Leadership: Healing and 
Dealing." A critical part of transforming one's life is to transcend the 
effects of discrimination and injustice and to learn how to succeed in a 
diverse world. This training is an intensive, participatory three-day 
experience that provides useful frameworks for working on diversity issues 
with young people. It offers role plays and other activities to use in a 
program setting, action plans for organizational interventions, a focused 
exploration of the situation experienced by young people, a celebration of 
cultures, and ongoing support mechanisms for practicing diversity 
leadership. It helps practitioners look at themselves and then at changes 
needed in their programs. Facilitated by skilled diversity leaders from 
the YouthBuild USA Diversity Working Group. =20

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Who: youth workers, teachers, HR managers, non-profit administrators, 
community leaders, parents, young people, educators, civil servants, 
grassroots organizers, program officers, board members, and diversity 
practitioners=20

What: A 3-day workshop that explores the complexities of dealing with and 
healing from oppression. =20

When: January 14-16, 2004=20

Where: New York City =20

Cost: $300 includes workshop and materials (room, board, and travel not 
included).=20

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER
http://www.youthbuild.org/academy/diversityleadership.html

<p><p><p>(limited partial scholarships available)

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