This training explores the impacts of gender and racial bias on youth, families, organizations and communities. It will consider the dominant narratives that further disparities in safety, education, physical and mental health, and opportunity for those who live at the intersections of discriminated identities such as gender, race, age, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Through an exploration of implicit bias, participants will recognize how internal and often hidden assumptions around gender and race will harm relationships and add further trauma and disconnection for youth and adults with intersectional identities. The training ultimately promotes skills to develop allyship and to mitigate gender and racial bias within an organization’s youth development framework including One Circle Foundation’s (OCF) program models – Girls Circle^®, The Council for Boys and Young Men^® and Unity Circle^™.

Participants across all youth-serving sectors will learn foundational principles for inclusive and expansive culturally responsive programming. The training provides knowledge and skill- building to promote healthy youth development, empathy, and allyship for youth of color and LGBTQ+ identities. Content and activities are designed to reduce gender and racial bias and to build resilience and effectiveness within organizational culture and youth services. Training presentation includes current trends, statistics, national reports, research, youth testimonials and evidence-based modalities.

This is an experiential and interactive training that utilizes lecture, role play, demonstration, video, small group discussion, activities, and brainstorming to stimulate participants’ learning and skills development. Trainers provide strengths-based, relationship -focused techniques and best practices that create a safe and positive learning environment.

The subject matter relates to the scope of practice for service providers in education, behavioral health, juvenile justice, drug and alcohol services, public health, child welfare, and community-based services.

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