1. Creating a Culture of Inclusivity in Your Teams
2017 Conference
Workshop 4:
Creating a Culture of Inclusivity in Your Teams
5 mins: to do introductions (Maritza and Caroline)
Caroline: is going to ask who is in the room by show of hands
Caroline Sachi Madigan, JD
Maritza Y. Herrera, MBA

2. Workshop Goals: Self-Assessment
Defining a Culture of Inclusivity: Why, Who, How … & Implications
3. Where to Go From Here
First, we are going to do a self-assessment.
Second, we re going to learn about 90by30’s core values as they relate to equity and inclusion
And last we are going to do an activity that will hopefully help you in identifying some next steps for your teams.
Are we ready to get started?

3. Exercise:
Please take 5 minutes to fill out the chart below with the name, gender, age, education level, and language spoken of five people that come to your mind. These could include friends, family, and coworkers.
First Name
Gender
Age
Education Level
Spoken Language 1 2 3 4 5
Lets take 5 minutes to fill out the chart below with the name, gender, age, education level, and language spoken of five people that come to your mind. These could include friends, family, and coworkers. Go! I will set a timer.

4. Exercise: First Name Gender Age Education Level Spoken Language 1 2 3
First Name
Gender
Age
Education Level
Spoken Language 1
Anna F 36
Bachelors
Spanish/English 2
Ceci
Masters 3
Paulina 45 4
Jessie 50 5
Claudia 40
I recently attended the State’s Diversity Conference and I attended a session on implicit bias. Where we were asked to do this exercise. I have been doing equity and inclusion work for 12 years and this exercise expose some of my own biases. It revealed what I tend to gravitate towards…also known as biases…, my comfort zone. What I learned is that my friends are very much like me….I’m female, I’m 36, I have a masters, and I’m bilingual.
Would anyone want to share your results? Were you surprised? Were some of your results more diverse than mine?
FYI: just to be fair to me, the trainer asked us to list only friends. I gave you the option to list family and coworkers. When I realized my bias, a had a mental conversation about, wait I have white friends and African American friends who only speak English and I do have male friends. But again, it took a conscious effort to be inclusive.
From this self-assessment exercise…what I want you take away from it…is that when you are thinking about recruiting think outside these boxes. Recruit outside your comfort zone. Ask yourself…whose voices are missing and which agencies can benefit from building mutually beneficial relationships with 90by30.

5. WHY: 90by30’s Core Beliefs
2. The value that children deserve to be safe and cared for crosses all lines of politics, religion, geography, financial status, education, and culture.
5. There is a role for each and every person, neighborhood, group, organization, business, and entity to prevent child abuse and neglect.
10. Every voice is important and every perspective has something valuable to offer this effort.
90by30 has 10 core beliefs….and we found three that speak to diversity and inclusion.
2. Every child deserves to be safe
5. There is a role for each person
10: Everyone’s voice is important

6. Who? Consider Diversity as well as Non-Traditional Voices
(a non-exclusive list)
Age
Gender
Ethnicity
Religion / Spirituality
Socio-Economic Status
LGBTQ
Thinking, Learning, & Communication styles
Counter Culture
Trauma-Impacted
Parental Status
Program participants
Diversity: refers to the variety of similarities and differences among people in categories we can all identify such as gender ethnicity, age, religion, ability.
When we talk about inclusion lets think about non-traditional voices such as:

7. HOW? More Tangible Less Tangible Welcoming Space Who is at the Table
Self-Assessment
Willingness to be Uncomfortable
Open-Mindedness
Communication and Conflict Resolution
Practice-Based Evidence
Who is at the Table
Built Environment
Digital/Media Presence
Training and Policies
Team Assessments
Ongoing Agenda
Culturally Relevant Strategies
Diversity: refers to the variety of similarities and differences among people in categories we can all identify such as gender ethnicity, age, religion, ability.
When we talk about inclusion lets think about non-traditional voices such as:

8. Activity Each table has an activity sheet:
Your team has identified a voice that may not yet be adequately included in the work of 90by30.
In your groups, brainstorm reasons (1) WHY having their voice in your team is important; (2) HOW you would reach out to theses voices; and (3) Consider the Implications in choosing prevention strategies.
Considering that everyone has a voice and can bring value to this effort. Let’s do an group activity. (split in groups of 5/if tables are not in clusters do a 1-5 counts and group)
LGBTQ:
Why:
How:
Implications:
Disability:
Immigrants from Latin America:
Why: highest birth rates, big percent live in poverty, learn about cultural differences about child rearing and new born practices.
How: ID community leaders and reach out to them to connect you.
Implications: materials and presentations bi-lingual, are proposed strategies culturally appropriate; if a family had to registered to receive a WBB is that safe for undocumented families.
People Experiencing Homelessness:
Why: how does experiencing homelessness impact mothers to be; father involvement, new babies, and children, how does the stress of being homeless impact breastfeeding.
How: connect with low income housing people who advocate for this group; reach out to someone who is/has experienced homelessness.
Implications: interventions designed for home visits, can these be done in shelter, if we have a year long school base intervention would the child be able to completely benefit from the program.
Veterans:
Why: war veterans struggle integrating back to the civilian world, may have PTDS and/or other MH needs that may place their children at risk; providing support is very important
How: connect with someone who work with this populations or someone form a veteran club who understand the needs and concerns
Implications: are the teams and community partners trauma informed.

9. Next Steps: Homework Individual Self-Assessment 2. Team Assessment
Identify 5 things that your team would want to focus on in relation to building equity and inclusion
Keep it on the Agenda!
10 min: Homework (Caroline):
Team members self-assessment (who would the group tend to recruit—think outside those boxes)
Teams assessment: who is missing in the group, agencies, targeted communities, voices
Identify 5 things that your group would want to focus in relation to building equity and inclusion in your team (example: reach out to the communities we discussed in the activity).