Preparing System Involved Transition Age Youth (TAY) who are Women of Color for the Workplace

Nola Brantley

Training Description

System involved Transition Age Youth (TAY) who are women of color face many challenges in the workplace related to hiring, promotions, sexual harassment, and many other challenges. It’s crucial for system involved transitional age women of color to be prepared for challenges they may encounter. This training will provide strategies to address these challenges and help equip transitional age women for what they will encounter in order to improve long term outcomes for system involved youth.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to identify at least 1 barrier system involved transitional age women of color experience in the workplace

2. Participants will be able to identify at least 1 strategy to support system involved transitional age women of color experiencing setbacks, discrimination, etc. in the workplace

3. Participants will be able to identity at least 1 strategy to support system involved transitional age women of color who are experiencing sexual harassment in the workplace

Agenda 

9:30am-9:45am Welcome and introduction

9:45am-10:00am Experiences of Women of Color in the Workplace

10:00am-10:15am Pay Inequality

10:15am-11:00am Career Advancement + Experiences of Women of Color in the Workplace

11:00am-11:15am Break (CEUs will not be offered during this time)

11:15m-11:30am Authenticity verses Assimilating

11:30am-11:45am Overcoming Challenges in the Workplace

11:45am-12:00pm Questions & Answers and evaluations

Meet Our Trainers

Nola Brantley, CEO & Founder of Nola Brantley Speaks has become nationally recognized as a powerful Survivor voice for the issue of child sex trafficking through her moving and information packed public speaking. Her hard work and perpetual vigilance has brought both focus and concrete resources to this chronically underserved and largely unrecognized population of victimized youth. Nola’s approach aims to be holistic!

This course meets the qualifications for (2.25) BBS CEUs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.