Trainings and Support
Trainings employ a dialogue method (though which participants contribute to other participant’s knowledge and learning) to:
- explore racial identity
- increase understanding of implicit bias
- develop a personal commitment.
Trainings are typically provided as an introduction for people and organizations to the dialogue process.
“This training will push me to be aware of the stereotyping that I do, or that is around me in the workplace. I must pause and think about where its coming from in myself or where it might be coming from in somebody else. Moving forward, I will try to start a dialogue when biases are revealed.”
-Center for Dialogue Training Participant 2019
Multicultural Assessment
Through the support of the Central New York Human Services Leadership Council, the El-Hindi Center for Dialogue has received extensive training in the Intercultural Development Inventory®, a 50-item questionnaire available online that can be completed in 15–20 minutes. According to the IDI® website, the IDI® is accepted as the assessment of choice by over 1,300 organizations & schools, and over 500,000 individuals throughout the world have taken the IDI to improve intercultural competence.
Assessments, feedback, and action plans are delivered based on the IDI® continuum of multicultural behavior, and is delivered both descriptively and neutrally, with a focus on improvement. Assessments can be done on an individual or group basis.
Technical Assistance
InterFaith Works’ staff is available to organizations for technical assistance surrounding the issues of race and race relations and its application in its system and structure.
Building United Communities
This project was supported through a United Thank Offering grant from the Episcopal Church. Special thanks also to Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM), the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, and Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. DeDe Duncan-Probe.