Membership Details
What You Get with Your Membership:
As a member, you have the flexibility to choose from a variety of trainings listed below. You can combine multiple training courses to suit your needs, and we will tailor the schedule to fit your organization and team’s availability. You can purchase training hours starting from two hours and beyond. Limited scholarships available for consideration for smaller organizations.
Please email equitytrainingcenter@waysideyouth.org for questions and details.
Building a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice (DEI&J) Plan
Learn from Wayside Equity Leaders’ DEI Toolkit to create systemic organizational change. Participants will learn Wayside’s DEI Organizational Change Strategic Plan, including completing assessments, implementing stakeholder buy-in, forming staff committees, and tailoring the plan to their organization.
Growing Pains:
Dealing with High Expectations and Resistance in DEI Culture Change in Your Organization
Understand the journey towards being an “Aspiring Anti-Racist Agency.” Learn common mistakes, models for change, navigating resistance, and achieving outcomes to inspire organizational changes.
Courageous Conversations
Cross Racial & Cross Oppression Conversations
Focus on skill-building for cross-racial and anti-oppression conversations using the Validate, Challenge, Request model, Motivational Interviewing, and traits of cultural conversations. Learn the role of organizational leaders in these dialogues.
LGBTQIA+
( Lesbian / Gay / Bi-Sexual / Transgender / Queer / Questioning / Intersex / Asexual / + ) Affirming Culture
Create spaces that affirm and support LGBTQIA+ individuals. Learn key terms, best practices, and the history of LGBTQIA+ equity work through interactive training.
Gender Affirming & Gender Care
Understand gender identity and expression. Learn about gender-expansive practices and valuing transgender and non-binary people.
Oppression and Antiracism Groundwork Training
Learn foundational terms like diversity, equity, inclusion, oppression, and intersectionality. Build knowledge on starting and sustaining anti-racist practices.
Equity at Work
Deepen understanding of cultural competence, microaggressions, gender diversity, and more.
White Accountability & Anti-Racist Practice
Explore and unpack whiteness, white fragility, and how to be an accountable ally. Learn to engage with white identity and privilege, accepting and repairing microaggressions.
Client Engagement & Families learning Anti-Racism
Learn about challenges for families in home services, identifying strengths, and using strength-based language. Understand the difficulties in following provider guidance and how to support families authentically.
Connected & Courageous Supervision
Understand how power dynamics impact supervisory relationships. Learn to navigate privileged and oppressed identities to improve outcomes at work.
Executive Leadership in DEI: Navigating Your Power
Shift to a multidimensional view of self and understand your responsibility in discussions. Learn to manage power dynamics effectively.
White Supremacy Ideology Culture the 15 Characteristics and How to Create Change
Understand the characteristics and history of white supremacy ideology. Learn to deconstruct patterns and their negative impacts.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Recruitment & Hiring
Learn how biases affect recruitment and hiring. Apply DEI principles in job descriptions, postings, and the interview process. Increase self-awareness and vulnerability to counter biases.
Overview of Health Equity/Disparities in the Region
Receive information on current health disparities and equity gaps in the MetroWest region.
Using Data to Develop Programming from an Equity Lens
Learn how data analysis from an equity lens can impact program development and change.
Team Building through DEI&J lens
Build a team with diverse identities through fun, low-risk activities. Learn principles of anti-racist communities.
Talking to Kids about Racism & Oppression
Learn about allyship and finding your voice against racism and oppression.
Decolonizing Therapy Learning Group
Form cohorts to explore internalized racism, oppression, and co-liberation practices. Practice accountability within the community.
Ongoing Groups
Participate in groups led by WETC trainers focusing on:
- Youth-Led Anti-Racist Practice
- VCR Practice Groups
- Affinity Groups
- White Accountability Group