Advancing Racial Equity in Housing and Homeless Services Part 1: Spring 2023

A strong understanding and underpinning of equity is crucial in human service fields for service delivery, client retention, staff retention, and overall organizational health. This foundational equity course is for Continuum of Care (CoC) members, housing providers, homeless and housing service providers, community support services, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), and Public Housing Authorities (PHA) who are beginning to build foundational knowledge on equity from an anti-racist lens.  

Participants in the course will learn grounding concepts, frameworks, and language in equity, centered on racial equity. We will cover topics including equity, racial equity, intersectionality, white supremacy culture, power, and cultural humility. We will also touch on the history of racism in human services. Throughout the course participants will begin the process of self-introspection on how they participate in systems and how they can be an agent and champion for equity. Participants will leave the course with a base understanding of how equity, racial equity, and anti-racism impact service delivery and organizational culture.   

Learning Objectives:

As a result of completing this course successfully, participants will be able to:

• Understand equity, racial equity, intersectionality, white supremacy culture, power, and cultural humility
• Understand the history of racism in human services
• Demonstrate increased self-awareness of their own participation in systems and their own power to become a change agent

Training Facts:

• Dates:
  • Tuesdays, April 25 – May 23, 2023 
• Time:
  • 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET 
• Location: Online meeting room
• Subject: Race equity, cultural humility 
• Practice level: Beginner 
• CE credit:
  • ASWB: 7.5 hours
  • NAADAC: 7.5 hours
  • NBCC: 7.5 hours
• Course type: Live interactive webinar 
  • 90 minute weekly live webcasts
  • Participants will participate in weekly live webinars with the instructors. They will also have access to weekly readings, videos, and other actives on the learning page. They will be quizzed on the knowledge they learn from the live webcasts and learning activities every week to ensure understanding. 
• Covered topics: Equity, racial equity, intersectionality, white supremacy culture, power, and cultural humility
• Fees: $375 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)
• Date created: 2022

Meet the Faculty:

Lisa Bahadosingh, MS, LPC, has over 15 years of experience addressing the traumas associated with systemic racism within communities that have been marginalized. She engages communities and Continuums of Care in developing and delivering strategies that advance racial equity and lead to sustainable change. She is committed to advancing racial equity and passionate about continual learning and authentic collaboration with those who are most impacted by homelessness.  In the earlier half of her career, Lisa provided clinical services, designed therapeutic programs, and managed continued quality improvement processes. She led several initiatives in Connecticut that resulted in a regional coordinated entry system, improved the integration of healthcare and housing, and expanded effective interventions such as Critical Time Intervention and patient navigation paired with supportive housing. As part of that work, she facilitated partnerships between public housing authorities, community providers, and municipalities which significantly advanced Continuum of Care efforts to end chronic homelessness. In her work to end youth homelessness, Lisa is a strong advocate for identifying and addressing LGBTQ+ and racial disparities throughout the system and within her organization. Lisa received a Master's of Science in Clinical Psychology from Palo Alto University and is a Licensed Professional Counselor.  

Monique Price-Taylor, MS, is a strategic innovator with over fifteen years of experience in racial equity, supportive housing and systems transformation, community engagement, capacity building and training and technical assistance.  In her former role as Program Manager for the New England Region with the Corporation for Supportive Housing, Monique managed a diverse portfolio of  training and technical assistance clients for supportive housing providers. She was instrumental in advancing racially equitable solutions through operationalizing the Connecticut Race Equity Framework for Housing and Homelessness stakeholders. She was recently elected to serve as one of the co-chairs for the Connecticut Balance of State continuum of care. Monique has devoted most of her career to empowering the lives of young people in Connecticut. She has served as a consultant with the Obama Foundation's Hartford Community Leadership Corps program. As a servant leader, she currently serves on the CT Race Equity Council for Leadership Greater Hartford and is a former board member of Epsilon Omicron Omega Foundation for Excellence where she served three years as the financial secretary.  Monique received a Master’s degree in Counseling with a specialization in student development in higher education from Central Connecticut State University and a Bachelor's degree in communication from Eastern Connecticut State University. She lives by the motto “Maximizing your minutes, by optimizing your gifts.”  

Who Should Take This Course:

Staff at all levels of health and human service agencies, behavioral health organizations, and recovery-centered organizations.

System Technology Requirements: 

Please ensure your viewing device complies with the following recommendations:

• Must be on a device that allows you to view MP4 files
• Ensure you have a strong enough internet speed to stream
• Ensure you don't have firewalls blocking the video (some firewalls block some HTTP addresses)

We will be using Zoom for the viewing of our live sessions. In order to have the best experience for Zoom, please download the application here: https://zoom.us. 

Refund and Cancellation policy:

Access is automatically provided to this course once purchased. Therefore, no refund will be given. For special circumstances before the live sessions begin, C4 may cancel your registration and move your credit to another module of equal value or refund the course to the original source of payment. 

Training Certificates:

Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:

1. Attending all five, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session)
2. Completing all required learning activities
3. Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
4. Completing the course evaluation form and the certificate request form

7.5 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through ASWB and NAADAC. 7.5 hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through NBCC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants roughly two weeks after the completion of the final webcast.

Accommodations: 

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Program Manager, Marsha Kubyshko at training@c4innovates.com.

Grievances: 

If you would like to report a complaint, please contact Associate Director, Rachel Ehly at rehly@c4innovates.com. 

In order to fully complete this course and receive a continuing education certificate from one of the following boards, you must pass each of the five weekly quizzes with an 80% or higher (you will have unlimited retests) along with the final evaluation. The required posttest questions will be at the end of each week's section and the required evaluation will be provided at the completion of the course. Upon successful completion of this course, you can request a certificate using the certificate request form posted with the evaluation and on your learning page. C4 Innovations will then review your course completion and email you a certificate within 2-3 weeks in PDF format. If you are social worker, you will need to write in your license number in the certificate request form for us to be able to include it in your certificate. 

C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/17/2020-10/17/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 7.5 continuing education credits.  

C4 Innovations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6576. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. C4 Innovations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

This course has been approved by C4 Innovations, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #100990, C4 Innovations is responsible for all aspects of their programming.