1. Diversity: Good for Business and Good for Humans
PRSA - NYC
6/25/14
Joan Adams, LCSW Consultant on Racial Equity and Cultural Competence
6/25/2014

2. Agreements for Workshop
Listen
Participate
Be respectful
Stay in the room
Silence or turn off electronics
Stay at your ‘growing edge’
Speak from the ‘I’
Focus on diversity of social identities and experiences in your work and life
Ask if you don’t understand something
Joan Adams, LCSW Consultant on Racial Equity and Cultural Competence
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3. Why is Diversity important in your work?
What led you to this workshop?
Joan Adams, LCSW Consultant on Racial Equity and Cultural Competence
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4. Diversity: Multiple Social Identities and Structural Privilege or Disadvantage
Race
Culture/ethnicity
Class
Gender
Age
Religion
Structural Privilege/advantage or Disadvantage
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5. Warm up Exercise In groups of 2 take turns sharing:
In what place(s) did you grow up and what was it like for you?
Describe at least one way your experience growing up informs your perspective in your current work.
Joan Adams, LCSW Consultant on Racial Equity and Cultural Competence
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6. Key components of Cultural Competence
Knowledge
Self Awareness
Skills
Cultural humility*
Openness to attitudes, styles and norms different from one’s own
Actively listening
Reflecting and reserving judgment
Putting oneself in the context of the other
*Ortega, R. & Faller, K. C. (2012). Training child welfare workers from an intersectional cultural humility perspective: A paradigm shift. Child Welfare, 90(5):
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7. Manifestations of Structural Racism
Disproportionality e.g. over-representation of Black and Latino kids in foster care
Disparity e.g. unequal access to quality health care
Unequal outcomes e.g. higher HS drop out rate
Across systems: Health, Housing, Employment, Education, child welfare, Juvenile Justice, Criminal Justice, Media, Finance
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8. Exercise In same groups of two:
Name two aspects of your multiple social identities, class, race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion that are most important and present in your life?
How do those aspects of your social identity afford you privilege/advantage or disadvantage?
Describe one experience or personal observation of structural racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism or other structural bias in your life/work
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9. Small Group Discussion
Based on our brief discussion today about multiple social identities and experience with structural bias, how diverse and inclusive is your hiring, decision-making, promotions, leadership, customers/clients, vendors and opportunities for attracting young people to the PR field? What next steps would be strategic to provide more diversity and inclusion of different experiences and perspectives in your company and in PRSA - NYC?
Joan Adams, LCSW Consultant on Racial Equity and Cultural Competence
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10. Brief Call out from Group
What surprises, learnings, discoveries, satisfactions or dissatisfactions did you experience in this workshop?
Joan Adams, LCSW Consultant on Racial Equity and Cultural Competence
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11. Resources
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Undoing Racism Workshop™. For information and workshop schedule:
Books
Alexander, Michelle. (2010) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: The New Press
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12. Resources continued Books:.
Resources continued
Books:
Martinez, Elizabeth. (1998). De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century. Cambridge Ma: South End Press.
McGoldrick, M., Giordano, J. and Garcia- Preto, N. (Eds.) (2005) Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition. New York: Guilford Press
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13. Resources continued
Books Tatum, B., (1997). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And other conversations about race. New York: Basic Books. Articles Kivel, P., (1998) “I’m Not White, I’m Jewish: Standing as Jews in the Fight for Racial Justice”
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14. Resources continued Articles
Ortega, R. & Faller, K. C. (2012). Training child welfare workers from an intersectional cultural
humility perspective: A paradigm shift. Child Welfare, 90(5):
 Sue, D. et.al. (2007) “Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice” American Psychologist, Vol.62, No.4, pp.271 – 286
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15. Resources continued Videos California Newsreel:
Race: The power of an illusion: Episode One: The difference between us. Los Angeles, (58 minutes)
Race: The power of an illusion: Episode Two: The story we tell. Los Angeles, California Newsreel. (58 minutes)
Race: The power of an illusion: Episode Three: The house we live in. Los Angeles, California Newsreel. (58 minutes)
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16. Resources continued Videos
Tim Wise: On White Privilege, Racism, White Denial and the Costs of Inequality
Justice for My People: The Dr. Hector P. Garcia Story (aired on PBS September 2007) (Mexican American civil rights activist in California)
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