BRIDGES for Just Community - Equity Leadership


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In working with the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Global Lead, Inc., The Greater Cincinnati Urban League, and the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati, BRIDGES designed the Equity Leadership Program to help graduates of our area's community leadership programs and leaders from a variety of different backgrounds, beliefs and experiences to be more effective in their leadership by gaining needed awareness on issues of race and equity. As BRIDGES our focus is broader, encompassing and highlighting the issues of class, faith/religion, gender and sexual orientation and the places where these topics interconnect and collide.

The Equity Leadership Program provides BRIDGES with yet another vehicle to advance our mission and create the change we hope to see in our community, in our region, and in our society. BRIDGES proposes the engagement of 3 sector groups we believe are pivotal in creating and directing societal awareness of racial and other systemic inequities that disable some groups of citizens from leading productive, healthy and meaningful lives and impede the attainment of a fully inclusive, equitable and just community for all.

News & Media Leaders
Emerging Leaders (young adult professionals)
Education Leaders

"I like that you do not provide answers. I believe that people should come to their own conclusions for themselves, and you allowed us to do that. I love that you communicate that there is no one right way - which means you model what you teach."

-Mt. Notre Dame Educator

The competencies that we seek enhance through the Equity Leadership Curriculum are as follows:

Competency and Evidence of Mastery Module 1- The Inequity Problem	BRIDGES Equity Leadership Content
Definition of Diversity - At the mastery level, a participant would be able to exhibit a pattern of engaging in the behavior listed.	Diversity & Inclusion self assessment The Silent Interview Trading Places Life Maps
Definition of "Exclusion/Inclusion"
Conditions Promoting Exclusion
Awareness of Common Blindspots
Impact of Exclusion / Reason for Inclusion

Module-2- Important Dynamics Equity Leaders Must Know
Data Based Reality - Objective-subject relevant data	*BRIDGES Progress Report on Human Relations in Greater Cincinnati*
Cycle of Disparity	*Cycle of Disparity*
Personal Relevance of Disparity	Level The Playing Field - Learners reflect on their own experiences w/disparity as experienced through the exercises
Systemic Nature of Disparity	Web of Oppression

Above is the introductory segment that we do in a 3.5 hour presentation.

The remaining 2.5 Hours are done with groups or organizations that have elected to move beyond this introductory work into deeper individual, group and organizational/institutional planning efforts.

Module 2 - Review
Stages of Identity	Racial Beliefs Self Survey and Discussion Groups
Desired State of Equity	Reversing the Cycle of Disparity slide.
Equity Leader Skills & Their Significance	Reversing the Cycle of Disparity slide.
Module 3- Skill Practice and Next Steps
FCT* - Familiarity, Comfort & Trust	FCT* *- trademark of Global Lead, Inc.
Refining Thinking	Refined Thinking skill
Law of Needs	Law of Needs
Exploring Opposing Stances	Discussing Opposite Stances
Initiating Effective Feedback	Persuasive Feedback model
Roles in Dealing with Exclusion	Role play
Personal Action Planning	3 tangible Next steps to take personally, professionally and systemically.