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

Nola Kesia 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

10:00-10:15am Trainer and Topic Introductions

10:15-10:30am Experiences of Women of Color in the Workplace

10:30-10:45am Pay Inequity

10:45-11:00am What prevents WOC from advancing?

11:00-11:15am Workplace Environments for WOC

11:15-11:30am Authenticity verses Assimilation

11:30-11:45am Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

11:45am-12:00pm Moving Ahead: Hone in on your sweet spot

12:00-12:15pm Moving Ahead: Self Care

12:15-12:30pm Moving Ahead: Learn from Mentors

12:30-12:45pm Moving Ahead: Community of Support

12:45-1:00pm Closing and Questions

Meet Our Trainers

Nola Kesia 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 (2.75) BBS CE Hours 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.