Launching the
Wayside Equity Training Center
At a time when Diversity, Equity, Inclusion is a priority for most non-profits, it can be hard to know where to start: Updating policies? Building culture? Solving specific problems?

The Wayside Equity Training Center builds on Wayside Youth & Family Services own experiences as a human services agency and non-profit to offer customized trainings that are designed to advance the diversity, equity and inclusion goals of its partners. Wayside Equity Training Center helps organizations better understand how diversity, equity and inclusion can become foundational in their daily work. Ultimately, program participants address racism in all its forms, creating more effective, efficient, and equitable non-profits.

The work of Equity is not only the right thing – today’s workforce understands that inequity is the roadblock for many of the youth & families we serve. The work ahead for social work and community care is understanding how to be anti-racist, as well as support both clients and employees in creating cultures that make room for everyone. 

Our mission is to empower organizations to advance equity.

Where are you?
 
Take our Building Blocks Self-Assessment to better understand where your organization is today, what strengths you can build on and what areas your specific training program may want to focus on addressing.
How do you build an anti-racist organization?

Thursday, April 15, 2021 | 11:00am EST
At a time when Diversity, Equity, Inclusion is a priority for most organizations, it can be hard to know where to start: Reflecting on your internal racial, gender and power dynamics? Updating Policies? Building culture? Solving specific problems?

Join us for the launch of The Wayside Equity Training Center where our team will examine positive impacts on organizations already meeting clear DEI goals, particularly those putting an equitable - and ultimately anti-racist - lens across all aspects of operations, from hiring and training to internal communications to building client-facing programs and interacting with clients. We will also consider how to create accountability for your DEI efforts with measurable goals.

During this discussion, you will hear firsthand how The Equity Training Center can advance the goals of your organization and support your employees, leadership, and community in better understanding how DEI can – and must - become foundational in their daily work.

Featured Panelists
Kelley Chunn
Principal of Kelley Chunn & Associates (KCA) and Strategic Partner
at Denterlein
Guimel DeCarvalho, LICSW, SHRM 
Vice President of People and Culture and Chief Diversity Officer at Wayside
Amy Hogarth, MFT Director of Recruitment and Inclusion at Wayside
Moderated by Diana Pisciotta, Vice President at Denterlein
Become an Equity Change Agent

The Wayside Equity Training Center partners with organizations – we call them Equity Change Agents – from multiple sectors to place a greater focus on clear DEI goals. Our particular strength is putting an equitable (and ultimately anti-racist) lens across all aspects of operations, from hiring and training to building client-facing programs and interacting with clients.

Wayside’s Equity Training Center addresses specific challenges, including:
  • Fostering more equitable internal environment for employees
  • Offering more competent care to clients
  • Developing more equitable/respectful relationships between staff and families

A pathway to equity

The Wayside Equity Center works with Equity Change Agents to creates a “level playing field” environment where all employees/program participants are aware that explicit conversations about race are welcome. By tailoring its programs to specific client goals and operations needs, the Equity Change Agents to develop and track metrics for success.  
Wayside Equity Center encourages its Equity Change Agents to embrace accountability – evaluating organizational strategy and operations through an equity lens.
Major funding for the Wayside Equity Training Center has been provided by the MetroWest Health Foundation.