CULTURAL AWARENESS TRAINING
This cultural awareness session explores how cultures shape how we act and behave and how misunderstandings arise when we misinterpret different cultural behaviors. Training provides the knowledge, skills, and expertise to build relationships, communicate effectively across cultures, and promote acceptance and respect for diversity.
INTRODUCTION TO TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE FOR VOLUNTEERS
Email Terra Brown at tbrown@bbbsomaha.org to sign up.
Description:
Welcome to Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Volunteers. In this training, we will define trauma and take a look at its potential long-term effect on a child's development. It also provides helpful tips on how to support your Little if they have experienced trauma.
CHILD AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT 2020
Email Terra Brown at tbrown@bbbsomaha.org to sign up.
Description:
This Child and Youth Development course is created for Bigs and covers: --Important processes and benchmarks in child and youth development --Developmental differences and their impact on children and youth --Strategies for supporting your Little's healthy development.
LGBTQ AWARENESS
Email Terra Brown at tbrown@bbbsomaha.org to sign up.
Description:
This curriculum will provide guidance and best practices when working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. This video series provides an overview of terms and definitions, explores risks faced and ways mentoring can help protect youth against these risks, discusses the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ youth, and provides practical tips and strategies when working with LGBTQ youth to help create a safe and supportive mentoring relationship.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING "NOT RACIST" AND ANTIRACIST
Email Terra Brown at tbrown@bbbsomaha.org to sign up.
Description:
There is no such thing as being "not racist," says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this vital conversation, he defines the transformative concept of antiracism to help us more clearly recognize, take responsibility for and reject prejudices in our public policies, workplaces and personal beliefs. Learn how you can actively use this awareness to uproot injustice and inequality in the world -- and replace it with love. (This virtual interview, hosted by TED's current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and speaker development curator Cloe Shasha, was recorded June 9, 2020.)
