Open to the public, conference attendees, or are otherwise not for pre-set group of attendees.
This interactive virtual training series assists library staff in improving access for LGBTQ+ communities. Sponsored by the Finger Lakes and Four County Library Systems in Upstate NY.
FREE and hosted by Early Care & Learning Council
We're conditioned to make snap assessments of people’s genders based on a small amount of information, such as how someone looks, sounds, or acts. But what if we’re wrong? How do we reduce our chances of making mistakes based on those assumptions?
The workshop, led by the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region, will begin with a two-hour training by Lyndon Cudlitz, exploring how systemic oppression shows up on nonprofit boards and discover strategies to advance our goals. The training will be followed by a panel with local nonprofit board leaders sharing their experiences serving on boards and providing strategies to advance inclusion.
This interactive and comprehensive training is designed to assist school staff, faculty, and administration teams in supporting the needs of transgender students in and outside of educational environments.
This interactive and comprehensive training is designed to assist school staff, mental health providers, and other youth-serving adults in supporting the needs of transgender young people. Participants will leave better equipped with both interpersonal and institutional-level tools to provide not just “safer” spaces, but relevant and affirming services for trans, non-binary, and gender expensive youth.
This interactive and comprehensive training is designed to assist school staff, mental health providers, and other youth-serving adults in supporting the needs of transgender young people. Participants will leave better equipped with both interpersonal and institutional-level tools to provide not just “safer” spaces, but relevant and affirming services for trans, non-binary, and gender expensive youth.
Lyndon Cudlitz: Consulting, Education & Training will provide opening remarks.
The session will be presented by Doug Freeman, CEO of Virtcom Consulting, a nationally recognized expert in Diversity and Inclusion Business Consulting. This workshop was developed to assist work teams – including executives, managers, supervisors, team contributors and human resource professionals – that are moving beyond a compliance-based approach to diversity to one that drives measurable ROI.
This interactive training is designed to assist leadership, management, and HR professionals in creating businesses and organizations that support the needs of LGBTQ employees and job-seekers. Whether your agency has struggled with issues of workplace discrimination or wants to prevent litigation, whether you have a transgender employee seeking support or you want to proactively prepare for new LGBT hires – this training will increase your understanding of the many barriers LGBT employees face and how to address them.
This dynamic training offers social workers an in-depth opportunity to enhance their understanding of the identities, experiences and needs of transgender individuals. Attendees will explore common life stressors, barriers to care, and how to meet the service needs of trans individuals, while also challenging social & political gender-based oppression. The training will address the roles of social workers in the potential medical and legal transition needs of clients. A portion of this training (presented by Parker Reid and Darren Cosgrove, LMSW, PhD candidate) will highlight micro & macro work with non-binary young people and share promising practices based upon a pilot study.
Click here to register through the SUNY-Albany School of Social Welfare.
Cost: $140 (Limited scholarships available for students and new social workers. Please email sswceu@albany.edu for more information.)
Current UAlbany Field Instructors receive a 50% discount on the cost of CE hours.
7.5 CE hours. Approved for NYS Social Workers & NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselors.
