In the Workplace

Institute for Professional Development

Educators' Institute
The Educators' Institute is a professional development series open to middle school and high school teachers, administrators, counselors, and other individuals interested in building more inclusive and affirming classrooms through exploration and development of strategies and skills to effectively navigate diversity issues in schools. Each Educators' Institute course series lasts two class days and awards 12 professional development credits. Proposed series topics for the 2007-2008 academic year are "Navigating Race in Schools" (fall 2007) and "Navigating Sexual Orientation in Schools" (spring 2008). Institute faculty members are skilled human relations professionals with wide ranging experience and expertise in areas of diversity, inclusion, and multicultural education. The program is implemented in partnership with the Peter Sammartino School of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University and with funding from the Wachovia Foundation.
To register for the upcoming Educator's Institute Session's please click the link to print out our brochure to fax back or mail in your registration. Educator's Institute Brochure

Healthcare Cultural Competency Training

The Institute of Medicine (IOM), in its landmark 2002 report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, found "A large body of published research reveals that racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality of health service and are less likely to receive even routine medical procedures than are White Americans." They further found that this disparity in care exists "even when access-related factors, such as patients' insurance status and income are controlled."

As a result of their findings, one of IOM's key recommendations is to provide cross-cultural education in the health professions. The goal of the American Conference on Diversity Healthcare Cultural Competency Program is to provide healthcare professionals with tools and information critical to developing the human relations skills necessary to reduce bias and prejudice and to providing culturally respectful and competent healthcare. This program is appropriate for any individuals having interaction with healthcare clients and can be provided as an on-site program.