Best Practices for the Recruitment, Retention and Promotion of a Diverse Organization
Mentoring the Mentors, the Mind Sciences, Challenging Dialogues as Methodology
Cheryl L. Franks PhD, LMSW
This highly interactive session will focus on awareness and recognition of the dimensions of identity, and its impact on recruiting, retaining and promoting diversity.
Agenda
- Breakfast, Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop
- Review Agenda for the Day/Contracting for Our Work
- Ice Breaker and Group Introductions: Invisible Dimensions of Identity, Difference and Social Location
- PowerPoint Presentation: Framing, Locating and Affirming the Complexity of the Work
- Including: Mentoring the Mentors, Micro-Aggressions and the Mind Sciences, Challenging Dialogues as Methodology
- Affinity Group Exercise and Large Group Dialogue on Dimensions of Identity**: Bearing Witness to Each Other’s Stories, Narrative and Experience
- Gender/Sex
- Race
- An additional dimension from survey feedback
- Large Group Discussion: Applying Concepts and Skills to One’s Role in the Organization
- Letter to Self
- Group Closing, Next Steps, Evaluation
**Dimensions of Identity, Difference and Social Location: race, skin color, ethnicity, nationhood, disability/ability, age, gender, biological sex, religion/spirituality, sexual orientation, language, geographic location (not an exhaustive list)
Workshop will be led by Dr. Cheryl L. Frank, Higher Education Officer and Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY). Prior to her work at John Jay, Dr. Franks spent 22 years at Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) where she served as Dean of Field Education and Executive Director of Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice. Dr. Franks’ teaching and curriculum development includes courses in Education and Justice, Educating for Social Change, Sustainability, Human Rights, Re-thinking Human Rights (at SIPA), Diversity, International Immersion, Race and Ethnic Relations, Justice and Anti-Racist Practice, Program Development, Social Enterprise Administration and Seminars in Field Education.
OPEN TO MNYSC HERC REGIONAL MEMBERS