Cultural Inclusivity Training for Academia

Building a Diverse Workplace Starts at the Beginning

Building a diverse workforce starts at the beginning. We cannot have a diverse nursing workforce without diverse nursing students AND a learning environment that is culturally competent and enables students to be successful.

We learned quickly through our programs that building the skills needed to understand what diversity and inclusion means and how to apply that understanding to create, and support, a diverse learning environment does not happen organically. It takes dedicated time to acknowledge the bias within, have the difficult conversation and discuss how to make changes within the education system.

The Colorado Center for Nursing Excellence has modified our diversity, equity and inclusion programs to meet with specific needs of an academic setting.

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Available Training Programs

Bias Buster I

This 2-hour interactive workshop is designed to increase awareness of bias and to explore how conscious and unconscious bias impacts communication and decision-making when we interact with individuals and groups that are different from us.

Program includes:

  • Implicit Association Test Prework
  • Bias Buster Action Planning Support

Bias Busters II

This workshop builds on Bias Busters I to allow participants to further explore the effects of bias in everyday situations and determine alternative behaviors that stop bias in its tracks. This is a 2-hour skill building learning experience takes participants on a journey designed to develop skills that will transform behavior and systems of bias.

Program includes:

  • A skill building practicum
  • Problem Based Learning Community Group

Becoming Culturally Inclusive

This program takes the learners on a journey of self-awareness and reflection as they assess intercultural competence, as an individual and a group, using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)®.

Program includes:

  • Intercultural Development Inventory – IDI®- registration and online self evaluation.
  • A 4-hour group workshop/coaching
  • Inclusive Coaching Circle

Mentor Training Institute

This course prepares mentors to effectively support the growth and development of a mentee.  Participants explore the role and expectations of a mentor and develops skills that empowers the mentee to set goals, develop networks and identify resources that will foster their success.

Learn More about this program and how to mentors can support your new faculty or students. This program is customized to meet your school's specific needs.

To learn more about these programs please contact:

Amanda Quintana: Amanda@ColoradoNursingCenter.org

Mauritha Hughes: Mauritha@ColoradoNursingCenter.org

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