Current Diversity Center
Program Initiatives

LeadDIVERSITY: Each year, a group of 30 professionals are selected to participate in a
year-long curriculum that examines how organizations leverage diversity as a critical success factor and teaches participants how to guide their organizations toward a more inclusive corporate culture.

MOSAIC: Under the team leadership of school and community volunteers, MOSAIC helps ensure that diversity evolves as an opportunity for innovation and change. The most effective school-based diversity initiatives are long term, district wide and engage students, parents, and neighborhoods. MOSAIC has proven to be a direct link to student achievement. By learning to value our differences, a community emerges as a beautiful mosaic.

ACT:The Diversity Center’s flagship School & Youth program ACT: Action and Awareness for Change Teams empowers students with the skills and resources to serve as positive change agents for inclusion and strengthens their proficiencies around core curriculum guidelines.

CULTURAL COMPETENCY: Cultural Competence training provides the necessary tools to help individuals understand and address the impact of race, class, and gender, as well as with other aspects of diversity and their intersection on a systemic level. This training also focuses on discussions about the realities of racial and ethnic inequities and disparities that lead to decision making based on conscious or unconscious bias. This training also helps participants understand the impact of power, privilege, and oppression and how individual bias and belief may limit the ability to understand and communicate effectively with clients, staff, or co-workers.