Free professional development opportunity in San Francisco: http://bit.ly/NICOSPDD2020 NICOS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2020 9:00AM - 5:00PM SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY KORET AUDITORIUM 100 LARKIN ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 (This is not a library sponsored program) NICOS Chinese Health Coalition is offering a free professional development event for service providers and students in social work, primary and behavioral health, and other related fields. Program will...

Training opportunity for San Mateo County BHRS non-clinical staff. Wednesday, February 12th 2020 9:30a-12:30p or 1:00-4:00 Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Room 114 1300 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA Course Description: We all strive to engage effectively with our diverse population of customers, patients, and colleagues. Cultural humility offers one approach to engage with the ever-changing dynamics of culture and difference, power and privilege, as we go through our day-to-day work.

According to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, the one-time diversity training programs that are common among organizations are not beneficial for remedying bias in the workplace. For their study, the research team asked 10,000 employees if they would volunteer to participant in a workplace training session. Of all the employees, 3,000 participants volunteered. The researchers placed them randomly in one of two one-hour trainings: a diversity training or placebo training that...

Dovetail Learning has launched its next round of We Are Resilient™ trainings. We Are Resilient is a practical hands-on approach to strengthening resilience , designed to aid screeners, healthcare providers, and staff to be more comfortable addressing ACEs and trauma and provide trauma-informed care. The training helps providers manage their own vicarious trauma and provides anticipatory guidance to support patients /caregivers in strengthening their own resilience skills. Training choices...