1. What comes to mind when you hear the term?
What is Diversity?
What comes to mind when you hear the term?

2. Some dimensions of Diversity…
My race/ethnicity
My history
My sex/gender
My age
My sexual orientation
My primary language
My income level
My job
My physical abilities/disabilities
My religious beliefs
My education level and literacy
My communication style
My socioeconomic status
My life experiences
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3. Diversity Definition
The presence of difference that makes each person unique
Important human characteristics that impact an individual’s values, beliefs, and perceptions of self and others
In organization measured by:
Compliance
Increases in representation
Retention of traditionally under-represented groups
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4. What is Culture? Historically and Anthropologically Culture Is
Thought to be a stable patterns of beliefs, values, thoughts, norms, etc. that are transmitted from generation to generation for successfully adopting to other group member and their environment. (Sujata Warrier, 2001)
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5. Another Way to Define Culture
Shared experiences or commonalities that developed and continue to evolve in relation to changing and political contexts,
based on:
race disability status
ethnicity immigration status
national origin education
sexuality geographic location
gender rural/ urban
religion time, or
age other axes of identification
class
Within the historical context of oppression. (S. Warrier, 2001)
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6. Inclusion Definition
The full engagement and development of all group (team) members
Healthcare that works for everyone
In organizations measured by:
Contribution
Commitment
Efficiency
Accuracy
Innovation
Source: Novations Group, Inc
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7. Cultural Competence Definition
a set of
behaviors;
attitudes;
and policies
that enable us to work effectively in cross-cultural situations
and evolves over time
Individuals and organizations begin at different points of the continuum.
Cross (1989)
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8. Putting it all Together
Cultural Competence
Inclusion & Equity
Diversity