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Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Resources

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Ragon Resource – Personal Gender Pronouns for Email Signatures and Beyond

Mass General Brigham Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Mass General Brigham Employee Resource Groups

The Mass General Brigham Employee Resource Group page includes details regarding the various ERGs across the Mass General Brigham system, which include multicultural, LGBTQ+, and women’s groups. The page also lists the upcoming events hosted by these groups as well as relevant MGB events.

Training Opportunities from Mass General Brigham Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Inclusive Leadership for Managers

An introductory diversity, equity, and inclusion course for mid-level managers. The interactive course is designed to create space for participants to reflect on the importance of diversity in building teams and developing inclusive management practices in their daily work.

Understanding LGBTQ+ Identities

This interactive course covers the core competencies regarding the current experiences, needs, and identities of LGBTQ+ people and communities. The course reviews essential LGBTQ+ topics, such as gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and assigned sex at birth in addition to fundamental social justice theories such as intersectionality and cultural humility.

Leading With Diversity, Equity & Inclusion In Healthcare

Leading with DE&I in Healthcare is designed for individuals within Mass General Brigham to reflect on DE&I and develop skills for consciously integrating these critical concepts into the workplace.  While this training is a full-day, it is not an exhaustive look at the numerous aspects of DE&I. Instead, it is setting a baseline standard and intentional action planning for how participants can address DE&I within their team, department, institution, or system as a whole.

Training Opportunities on Healthstream (Both Live and Self-Paced)

We Are Upstanders (Live Session)

This course provides individuals with greater understanding and confidence to address racism and other acts of discrimination in the work environment, whether from patients, their visitors/family members, or other staff in a live, virtual session with a facilitator and colleagues. Through discussions of techniques, case studies, and policy, participants will develop skills for recognizing when to intervene, disrupt, or respond to racism/discrimination, assessing their options for how to act, and enacting next steps.

The Pronoun Initiative: An Introduction to Gender Diversity (Online)

An introductory course for MGB employees to understand and apply the following concepts: Pronouns, Gender Expression and Using They/Them Pronouns with colleagues, patients and their family members. This educational course supports the system-wide Pronoun Initiative.

Unconscious Bias (Live Session)

If you are human, you have bias. But why is it so easy to spot bias in others but not in ourselves? In this 1.5 hour virtual program, we will recognize clues that help us identify our own personal biases. Together we will explore why have bias, how bias shows up in our day-to-day lives and what we can do to mitigate our biases. This is a foundational workshop that will look at the many biases we encounter each day.

Creating a Welcoming Environment for LGBTQ Patients, Visitors, and Staff (Online)

LGBTQ people, and transgender people in particular, face multiple health disparities and often experience stigma, discrimination, and lack of access to quality care. This disparity is highlighted particularly with the unique healthcare requirements this population may need. As members of a healthcare organization, we have a role to play in offering an inclusive experience for all patients, visitors, and fellow staff. Everyone, no matter their gender identity or expression or sexual orientation, appreciates friendly, courteous, and effective care. While we at the Ragon are not in a hospital setting, we still have patients coming to our clinic for our trials and ur commitment to caring for all remains part of the mission of our organization. In an effort to reduce these disparities, this course introduces concepts related to LGBTQ people and reviews ways to interact with them in an affirming way.

Working Together Inclusively (Online)

The Working Together Inclusively learning series is designed to provide all Mass General Brigham employees with knowledge and skills to address various forms of systemic oppression within the workplace. The series’ goal is to increase awareness of inclusion opportunities and develop an action plan to create a more inclusive work environment.

Leading Inclusively: A Four-Part Leadership Development Series (Online)

This four-part Leadership Development series identifies the knowledge and practical skills while using our Mass General Brigham Leadership Competencies to address and stop racism and other forms of systemic oppression within the workplace.

Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Expression in the Workplace (Online)

The purpose for this training is to serve as a self-guided educational tool for individuals or small groups and teams on the topic of gender identity and gender expressions in the workplace. These course materials have been adapted from a presentation delivered at Partners on June 22, 2017 by Cei Lambert of Fenway Health.

Ending Racism: Everyone’s Responsibility (Online)

Ending Racism is a bystander education course that will provide employees with an understanding of how interpersonal racism continues to support and maintain structural racism. Through scenario-based learning, participants will develop skills for recognizing and confronting racial discrimination in the workplace. An overview of related Human Resources policies and practices will be given to support employees in actively dismantling racism within Mass General Brigham.

Included in Mass General Orientation

Textio Editor and Courses

Textio, a resource you can access for free using your MGH email and password, provides editor that you can use to help remove unintentional bias from written items such a job descriptions and social media posts. It will provide word and phrase suggestions to make your item more inclusive, as well as a score that can help guide improvements.

TextioU also offers self-paced online courses in the topics below (also included are recommendations for who should complete, based on my experience with the courses):

  • How to Find and Fight Bias in Your Language
    • Recommended for all individuals
  • Performance Feedback Certification
    • Recommended for anyone that manages another individual
  • Interrupting Bias in Hiring Certification
    • Recommended for anyone that is a hiring manager, writes job descriptions, interviews candidates, etc.
  • Inclusive Recruiting Certification
    • Not recommended at this time
  • Inclusive Employer Brand Certification
    • Not recommended at this time