Community Education, Coalition Building, Community Service Program-Training

Fortress For Equality–A Community Education and Coalition Building Program

Your Organization’s Obligations and Responsibility to the Community

BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT, NOT FOR PROFITS, PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS ALL HAVE A STAKE IN THEIR COMMUNITY. IT’S COMMUNITY SERVICE AND COMMITMENT IS REFLECTED IN EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE. SOME OF THOSE MOST PRODUCTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS INVOLVE THE EDUCATION OF ALL SEGMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THEIR RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND OBLIGATIONS

IN AMERICA TODAY THAT NEED IS NOWHERE MORE NECESSARY THAN IN THE AREA OF EQUALITY. The first programmatic attempts to address employment discrimination and seek economic equity occurred in the 1940’s. Since that time many of our organizations have been sitting on the bank of a river with some of us indulging in reminisces of yesterday and others feeling the frustration of a long protracted struggle. Many of our organizations have watched while the mainstream of the struggle for equality flows by. Some organizations have waded in occasionally to rescue one or two from the ravages of inequality and stopped them from drowning or stopped a few from experiencing sever effects. But, too many of our organizations willing to admit an interest, obligation and responsibility in their community have failed to build the dams to furrow the channels, to control the locks that direct the ebb and flow of Equity.

BUILDING THE FORTRESS

Albion Associates, has designed a program that your organization can provide to your community to help build that dam. Our FORTRESS FOR EQUALITY program reinvigorates your organizations efforts and establishes your organization as a architect willing to erect a FORTRESS FOR EQUALITY in your community that is impenetrable to inequality.

Our FORTRESS FOR EQUALTY program is a comprehensive two-day, three-event community education program. Each event is targeted to a segment of the community, which may harbor obstacles to individuals who may be drowning. These community education programs are designed to help remove those obstacles from each segment and strengthen the fabric of the community while building the FORTRESS one plank at a time.

THE BRICKS AND MORTAR

Equal Employment Opportunity Compliance:

"Obligation, Responsibilities and Discrimination Complaint Investigations."

This one-day workshop is designed to educate your business community on the best practices in keeping their workplace free of discrimination and prejudice.

Your community’s employers will learn:

• Practical guidance on non-discrimination in recruitment, selection, hiring and performance management
• The basic laws of employment discrimination
• To review their management policies and practices to comply with legal requirements and prevent discrimination
• To effectively interface with government employment discrimination enforcement agencies

Operation I.D. "What you should know and do when you think you’re a victim of discrimination"

This two-three hour evening workshop is designed to educate members of the public on information, resources and strategies to combat discrimination

Members of the public in your community will learn:

• The difference between unfairness and illegal discrimination
• The resources available to redress claims of discrimination
• Hot to document instances of discrimination
• What to do when confronted with discrimination at work, school, in public places and within the criminal justice system

Diversity and Conflict Resolution

"How to Resolve Conflict & Build Coalition through Discovering Diversity"

This one-day workshop is an opportunity for the discovery of commonalities and differences among groups within you community, to work toward effectively toward community unity and coalition building so that no human potential is lost.

Leaders in your community will learn:

• How to recognize similarities, differences, identity and value-systems
• Skills to increase effectiveness in working across cultural lines and gaining allies
• To understand our early learning’s and observe the personal impact of biases
• How to resolve conflict