Understanding and Mitigating Bias

REACH is Edmonton's Council for Safe Communities. We are a capacity-building, community-based organization working to mobilize and coordinate organizations, community groups and Edmontonians to find innovative solutions to prevention and community safety.

REACH Edmonton

This workshop is provided in collaboration with the Centre for Race and Culture.

Centre for Race and Culture

<h3>Who is it for?:</h3>As part of the REACH Training initiative, we are delighted to provide this in-person workshop at no cost in partnership with the Centre for Race and Culture, to front-line workers, helping professionals, leadership members, and any community members who aim to take part in supporting Edmonton's community safety. <h3>In-Person Workshop:</h3>Taking an intersectional approach, this workshop will help participants to build their understanding of bias and practice steps that can be taken to limit the impact of unconscious biases on our decisions and behaviours. Participants will enhance their self-awareness of their own biases, build understanding of their social conditioning, and examine behaviour versus intention in professed values and daily behaviours. Through case studies and interactive exercises, participants will identify their biases and assumptions, and learn how strategies to mitigate biases at the personal and organizational levels. After participating in this training, participants will be able to: <ul><li>Understand and define the concept of unconscious bias</li><li>Recognize personal and organizational biases and the way they impact our behaviours, interactions, and decisions</li><li>Identify and use tools and strategies to mitigate their personal and organizational biases</li></ul> <h3>Facilitator Bio:</h3>Steven Lin is passionate about empowering youth to achieve their goals through capacity building, self reflection and soft skill development. Steven has spent the last decade working with various nonprofits to tackle SDG 4 quality education. Some examples include his work with the Alberta Mentorship Program providing high school students the opportunity to develop their leadership skills or working at the Terra Centre to help teen parents advocate for themselves and for policy and system change or the Student Union supporting university students. Location:Centre for Race and Culture Cost:Registration cost is highly subsidized by REACH Edmonton.

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