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Today, there is no question that diversity training is of vital importance to the strategic plans of all organizations. Diversity training helps employees and team members relate to staff and stakeholders who are different from themselves and who struggle through issues of inequity and exclusion on a daily basis. With increased diversity awareness and skills, staff can interact with colleagues and clients in the manner that is productive and mutually beneficial. Of course, the key objective of any such training must be to increase participant self-awareness about the reality of diversity, equity and oppression relative to their personal biases, fears, and experiences. Upon completion, participants should be able to understand: (a) why such organizational reforms are necessary; (b) the difference between commonsense notions of discrimination vs. complex notions of inequity and oppression; and (c) how management, staff and stakeholders might function as change agents within their respective agencies, and within society as a whole. DSI offers a full spectrum of diversity trainings that range through (but are not exclusive to) issues of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism and able-ism. Each of these powerful trainings are designed to help staff engage their jobs in a self-reflexive manner that is not only supportive of clients but conducive to the development of strong healthy working environments.
