Diversity & Inclusion
Date: 07 December 2010
Duration: One Day
Duration: 10am-4.30pm
Held at: ROCC, Fairways House, Mount Pleasant Road, Southampton, SO14 0QB
Suitable for: Anyone interested in developing their understanding and promoting good practice in this important area
Course Aims and Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Identify the central role that working with diversity plays in being effective within the voluntary/supported housing sector
- Explore how discrimination operates and its effects
- Understand, acknowledge and discuss the principles of working with diversity
- Explore strategies for anti-discriminatory practice.
Trainers for this course
Edris Miller
Edris is a blind woman from Guyana who has been leading Disability Awareness training since 2002. She has worked for various local authorities and The National Child Minders Association running disability and equality courses. She has trained a wide range of groups from shop workers to council departments, and is currently designing an “Inclusive Play” system for child minders of disabled children to use.
Helen Brafield
Helen has worked for over 15 years in the voluntary sector, primarily in the development of innovative supported housing and related services. After gaining her MBA in 2000 she has focused her training, consultancy and research in the area of professionalising the voluntary and public sectors, and has a particular interest in ethical management practice. She runs her own business, Ethica Consultancy.