NCBI Newsletter

January 2017
NCBI Newsletter
2017 Issue 1
Inside this issue:
If Not Now, When?
If Not Now,
When?
NCBI April 2017
Institute
Respect: NCBI
Switzerland Program
on Muslims
and Jews
Police-Community
Partnerships
Which Way is
Home? NCBI in
Highschools
Men Embracing
the Gender
Sprectrum
NCBI on college
campuses
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6-9
The work of NCBI is needed
now more than ever. After a highly
divisive electoral campaign in
the U.S., with nationalist, antiimmigrant
sentiments rising in
Europe, we need to help everyone
around us organize effective intergroup
coalitions, listen to heart
felt concerns underneath divisive
issues, and find principled voices
for leadership.
As always, NCBI is on the
front lines working with current
issues. Read in this newsletter
how NCBI's law enforcement/
community trust building program
brought together police and community
leaders for a year long
Train the Trainer program in Philadelphia.
Gender work is featured
in this issue in What's New in
NCBI constituency work. And as
incidents against African Heritage
and Latino people's, Muslims, Jews,
immigrants, LGBTQ people, and
women continue to rise on college
campuses, NCBI leaders are
being trained to reduce bias and
inter- group tensions on campus.
Read how NCBI campus affiliate
teams are taking the lead in building
inclusive environments on
campus where everyone, from all
backgrounds and identities, can
b e w e l c o m e d .
Many of us entered 2017 with
weary, challenged hearts-- unsure
how we were going to repair the
growing divisions and discriminatory
behavior around us. We in
NCBI believe deeply in a key
NCBI principle: We don't change
people's minds. We change their
hearts. NCBI is primed and ready
to engage leaders everywhere in
our life changing principles and
practices to change hearts.
Make 2017 the year to join us at
one of our life changing Leadership
for Diversity Institutes in April,
August, and November in Hunt
Valley, Maryland. Learn more
about how NCBI diversity and
inclusion work on college campuses,
in K-12 schools, in communities
and police departments, and
environmental organizations is
bringing needed hope to thousands
of leaders and activists.
The task before us is challenging.
But we are just the people to
take it on. As always, I am proud
to work in partnership with an
awesome, diverse group of senior
NCBI leaders, working ceaselessly
to bring our much needed tools to
leaders everywhere.
Cherie Brown,
NCBI CEO
NCBI Leadership for Diversity Institute - April 26-29, 2017
Participants at a 2016 Institute.
Register Today!
The Leadership for Diversity
Institute teaches participants
hands-on, practical skills for building
cultural competency, welcoming
diversity, and increasing unity
and inclusion. Whether you are a
college administrator or faculty; a
schoolteacher or parent; a manager
who is responsible for supervis-
ing diverse employees in government
or in the corporate world; a
police officer or community activist
– this Institute will give you the
hands-on skills needed to be an
innovative leader.
In large group classes, participants
learn a replicable set of
practical skills; then in small group
settings, there is an opportunity to
practice the skills with support
and encouragement from others.
NCBI’s leadership for Diversity
Institute is right around the corner.
It will take place April 26-29,
2016 at Hunt Valley Inn, MD.
Learn more here.
Register now!

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Respect: Overcoming Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism together
“At our Muslim Jewish
events, we discover
again and again how
similar the two cultures
are ...The experience of
being targeted for oppression
in similar
ways.”
“We are convinced
that our work is
more important than
ever. With rising fear
comes a broadened
recognition that this
work is needed.”
NCBI Switzerland has been
conducting a program called
"Respect: overcoming islamophobia
and anti-Semitism together"
for more than 4 years. We conduct
encounter workshops, Respect-Seders
(Passover celebrations)
and Respect-Iftars (breaking
the fast at Ramadan) as well as
Feast of the Sacrifice (the stories
of Ishmael and Isaac), women's
dinners and special workshops on
thinking well about the Near East
and other topics. We have held
special events in connection with
museum exhibitions on the Albanians
who saved Jews during WW II
or on the Jewish emancipation in
Switzerland 150 years ago, when
Jews became citizens for the first
time.
The current news reminds me
that history comes back in many
ways: Switzerland first allowed
foreign Jews to travel freely in
Switzerland because of pressure
from France and the USA in support
of their Jewish citizens and
later allowed Swiss Jews to live
where they wanted to, and not
just in two villages (as had been
the case for centuries). Maybe
other countries can now press the
USA to treat equally their binational
citizens with roots in
Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Iran and the
other banned Muslim countries.
We have an NCBI chapter director
and an Advisory Board member,
both from Iraq. Our team of
Syrian "Bridge Builders” all have
family and friends affected by the
US Muslim immigration ban.
We recently led a training for
the coordination team of the Muslim
Jewish Conference in Berlin
and we have been actively involved
in this international event
each year.
At our Muslim Jewish events,
we discover again and again how
similar the two cultures are: the
shared immigrant experience
(offset by a generation or two),
the joint experience of being minorities,
the internal divisions
based on religiosity, as well as the
experience of being targeted for
oppression in similar ways. A few
years ago, there was a Swiss debate
about banning male ritual
circumcision; there is currently a
Swiss ban on both kosher and
hallal slaughter etc.) We also notice
the important differences for
example, in class, education, institutional
development and resources.
NCBI Switzerland has a dynamic,
mixed team of mostly
young adults organizing and leading
events throughout the year in
various areas of Switzerland and a
couple of times annually in neighboring
countries. We are very
excited that our grassroots work
led to the formation of a Committee
for Dialogue within the national
Jewish and Muslim umbrella
organizations, and the Respect
team is a member group.
Through this work, we are working
more and more together, Muslims
and Jews.
NCBI Switzerland also developed
a "Statement against Hate"
which has been signed by organizations,
individuals and most recently
also by members of Parliament.
The Statement calls for no
hate or violence against religious
minorities or in the name of a
r e l i g i o n . ( w w w . n c b i . c h /
statementgegenhass - in German
and French). In December, a
young non-Muslim man walked
into a mostly Somali mosque and
shot 3 people, wreaking terror on
the Muslim and especially the Somali
communities. The response
by the authorities has been disappointing
- there has not been public
outpouring of support.
The Jewish communities have
been requesting support for their
security in light of violent and
deadly attacks throughout Europe
on Jews and Jewish institutions.
The Swiss government recently
issued a report confirming the
danger and the need for enhanced
security - and suggesting that the
Jewish community create a foundation
to pay for this themselves.
This report feeds on stereotypes
about Jews and money and repeats
the history of WW II, where all
refugee assistance for fleeing Jews
in Switzerland was financed by the
Jewish community - not by the
government! The ensuing uproar
has had little effect to date - and
the cantonal government in Zurich,
where most of the 18,000
Jews in Switzerland live, has rejected
responsibility for security
costs.
We are convinced that our
work is more important than ever.
With rising fear comes a broadened
recognition that this work is
needed. You can follow the work
of NCBI Switzerland on our Facebook
page, which is mostly in
German and sometimes in English.
Ron Halbright,
NCBI Switzerland

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Police-Community Partnerships—We Are Mantua
This yearlong project began in
January 2016 to build relationships
between officers and community
members who live and work in
the Mantua area of Philadelphia. It
was funded by a grant provided by
DOJ/OJP/BJA Byrne Criminal Justice
Innovation in partnership with
the Mt. Vernon Manor, Inc. This
extensive project included on-theground
outreach with community
members and multiple ride-alongs
with officers. NCBI consultants
(Fabienne Brooks and Guillermo
Lopez) worked with the 16 th Police
District law enforcement leadership
and officers, community
leaders and BCJI stakeholders to
build healthier relationships and
facilitate more positive communications.
In May 2016, 16 th District
Philadelphia Police Department
officers and Drexel campus police
officers were trained in Customer
Service and Diversity by Fabienne
Brooks, Guillermo Lopez and our
CEO Cherie Brown. The Director
of Affinity Programs and leader of
the Black African Heritage Caucus,
Joyce Shabazz, provided support
to the leadership team. In September
and October, Guillermo
Lopez led multiple exposure
workshops that officers and community
members attended. In
November 2016, a three-day
Train the Trainer program was
held at a Mantua neighborhood
church. The Train the Trainer
participants included police officers
and community members who
learned how to lead Diversity
workshops in the community.
One of the activities in the
Train the Trainer was learning
about Listening Tables. The community-police
partnership teams
were trained to set up listening
tables in schools and at community
meetings where the team sits
together as police and community
activists, modeling cooperation, as
they listen to folks who wander
over to their table to answer a
question posted. One question
was: how can we improve lives for
both community members and
police here in Mantua. T h e p r o -
gram is being evaluated at each
step by Cedar Crest College for
efficacy and long-lasting change.
There was a year long evaluation
and a “Best Practice” document
completed by an independent evaluation
team that demonstrated
significant attitudinal change between
officers and community
leaders. Co-Director, Law Enforcement
Programs,
Fabienne Brooks,
Co-Director, Law Enforcement
Programs,
Participants at the WAM BCJI Trainthe
–Trainer workshop.
Participants at the WAM BCJI Train-the-Trainer
workshop.

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“Which Way is Home?” - NCBI In High schools
“The arts combined with
NCBI principles and practices
created a powerful
alchemy for healing and
change.”
Ensemble cast of the Social
Justice Theater Program.
“Pain that is not
transformed is
transmitted. Story telling
Once in a while a perfect
storm of courage, voices, collaboration,
and love comes together
and a miracle happens. In the
2015 – 2016 school year at Albany
High School, Albany, NY the Capital
District Chapter of NCBI was
asked to build bridges and to reduce
tensions between immigrant/
refugee and African American
student groups. NCBI focus
groups and coalition building
workshops were held. Where the
magic happened was when we
brought the speak out stories into
an after school Social Justice Theatre
Program to form the basis for
a student written production.
As each participant told the
story of their journey to find a
place in Albany, NY a common
thread of alienation and prejudice
that both groups had experienced
in their search for a place of
home, a place of belonging came
through.
"The project helps people find
a place of home in themselves
and you learn from it and then
you get to share it with the
high. But you will hear this
beautiful black girl’s voice because
I matter.”
-Camille, 10th grade participant
The students became characters
in each other’s story and in
some cases they even took the
lead in another person’s story.
Slowly, steadily, they literally
walked in each other’s shoes.
Strong bonds of friendship and
family were formed. The play began
with this narrative:
“Pain that is not transformed is
transmitted. Story telling transforms
our pain and your pain.
Here in this room, tonight,
there is no difference between
those telling the story and those
listening.
Our stories are yours as well.
Tonight we are one. “
“Stand up if your place of birth
archive/2016/12/11/which-way-ishome.
This coming school year, the
students who were in the play will
become a Bridge Builder Team of
Artist Activists and with training
from the NCBI Chapter they will
bring their filmed stories into
classrooms and lead discussions.
They will continue to meet after
school to prepare and to create a
safe haven for other students to
come to share their stories. An
audio and video library of student’s
stories is being established.
The students voices sang out
like trumpets, they turned their
swords into ploughshares. The
arts combined with NCBI principles
and practices created a powerful
alchemy for healing and
change.
Through acting in each other’s
stories, the students learned to
understand each other’s pain and
journey. Each day in rehearsal they
lived being allies for each other.
As audience, we became witness
and participants in their effort to
build bridges. Their lives were
changed and so were ours.
transforms our pain and
world.”
is outside the United States …”
The final verses of the play read:
your pain.”
-Bianke, 11th grade participant.
“You can never take what I
fought for as a child in the refugee
camp, the love of my life,
the opportunity to learn.”-Ar,
12th grade participant
“Try to take away my pride,
take away my hopes leaping
Which Way is Home was
performed in May 2016 at the
community repertoire theatre and
at the Albany High School.
After the play was performed,
funding was found to have Youth
FX, a local non-profit film arts
program video and produce films
of the students’ stories. You can
see the films by going to:
http://
www.artslettersandnumbers.com/
“Why do I feel like if I go out I’ll
die
Why is it I can never feel peace
If we continue to do this we’ll
cease
To exist in a world that’s full of
hate
And always fearing that horrible
fate
Mommy, Mama, Mother, Mom
Tell me that some day it’ll be

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NCBI in high schools—Continued
better
And I won’t live in fear forever
Tell me that there’ll be a bright
future ahead
And I won’t have to fear of soon
being dead
We’ll stop reliving the horrors of
the past
And mankind will forever last”
“Through acting in
each other’s stories,
the students learned
to understand each
other’s pain and
journey. “
Ira Baumgarten & Tawana
Davis
NCBI Capital District Chapter
Men Embracing the Gender Spectrum
Fourteen men spen t the
morning of November 17th, 2016
in Rochester NY connecting and
getting closer as we broadened
our perspectives regarding the
gender spectrum. Moving away
from the traditional male/female
binary, we explored a much more
fluid and dynamic interpretation of
gender, gender identity and gender
expression. This NCBI workshop,
led by Steve Jarose, Pete
Navratil, Al Dickerson and Rick
Olanoff, looked at gender liberation
as a new frontier. St. John
Fisher College and Dr. Yantee
Slobert, Director of the Office of
Multicultural Affairs and Diversity
Programs, were our generous
hosts.
We shared personal experiences
and considered the possibilities
that accelerate men’s liberation
by moving away from restrictive
male gender roles. We imag-
ine a world where embracing and
exploring the full gender spectrum
is how we can view all of humanity.
We watched a powerful Ted
Talk on gender by Ashley Wylde
with the following link: The Gender
Tag: Authentic Gender Expression
| Ashley Wylde .
The workshop gave us the
opportunity to re-evaluate how
we as men are conditioned into
'maleness' and how we can become
more authentic in expressing
the full nature of our humanness
and combatting sexism. The
result is that we can have a new
understanding of how to be better
allies to one another, to women
and to anyone who identifies as
gender non- conforming. One day
soon, we hope, that will include all
of us.
Rick Olanoff
Syracuse, NY
Dr. Yantee Slobert, Director of Multicultural
Affairs and Diversity Programs
at St. John Fisher College and Steven
Jarose, Director of NCBI Rochester, at
the recent Diversity Day activities at
the college.”

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NCBI’s Carolina Coalition in action: Bringing NCBI skills to campus
Idella Glenn leading an
NCBI workshop at Furman
in December 2014
“The Coalition has
sponsored NCBI trainthe-trainer
programs
to grow the teams and
allow other colleges
and universities to
bring NCBI to their
campuses”
North Carolina State University
hosted the 16th Annual NCBI
Carolina Coalition Train-the-
Trainer event in October 2016,
bringing NCBI trained campus
leaders from regional and national
universities to prepare them to
facilitate the NCBI leadership for
diversity training. Overall, forty
faculty, staff, and students from
The Citadel, Wofford College,
The University of Alaska at Anchorage,
Presbyterian College and
NC State participated. The training
was led by NCBI Coalition
leaders Idella Glenn and Beverly
Williams, assisted by a leadership
team from the participating institutions.
The seeds for the NCBI Carolina
Diversity Training Coalition
were planted when three Student
Affairs staff members at Clemson
University participated in an NCBI
5-Day Leadership Training Institute
in the fall of 1998. The three
returned to Clemson University
and applied for (and received) a
University grant to fund a 3-Day
NCBI Train-The-Trainer in the fall
of 1999. This core group formed
the NCBI Clemson Team, the first
NCBI Affiliate in the state of
South Carolina. There was also a
person at nearby Furman University
who was NCBI-trained and
this person served as a member-at
-large for the Clemson Affiliate
until a team at Furman University
was established.
The Clemson Affiliate formed
a partnership with several area
schools and applied for an Alliance
2020 Grant to fund another 3-Day
Train-the-Trainer in the fall of
2000. The purpose of this training
was to assist these area schools in
establishing their own NCBI affiliates.
The additional schools were:
Furman University, Tri-County
NCBI’s team at NC State
Technical College, Anderson College,
and SC State University (an
HBCU). Approximately 45 people
attended this Coalition-building
Train-the-Trainer.
Since this initial training, the
campus Coalition has sponsored
NCBI train-the-trainer programs
to grow the teams and allow other
colleges and universities to
bring NCBI to their campuses, like
SC State University , Furman University,
Piedmont Technical College,
North Carolina State University
, Greenville Technical College
, North Carolina Central
University. NCBI is growing on
Campus through the Carolinas.
Idella Glenn
Carolina Coalition Director
The University of Iowa hosts the NCBI Campus Conference
“The training was
incredibly wellreceived,
even being
declared the "most
effective diversity
training"
As a strong believer in a community-policing
philosophy and a true
advocate for building meaningful
relationships, Scott Beckner,
the newly appointed assistant vice
president and director of University
of Iowa Public Safety, worked
closely with Bria Marcelo, Director
of the University of Iowa
NCBI Affiliate to host an NCB
Law Enforcement specific training
i n S e p t e m b e r 2 0 1 6 .
The NCBI Law Enforcement and
Public Service program, led by
Police Chief (Ret.) Fabienne
Brooks and Guillermo Lopez,
Jr., held two training sessions with
45 officers, dispatchers, detectives,
and security officers. There
were representatives from four
different areas surrounding the
university including the University
of Iowa Police, Iowa City Police,
University Heights Police, and
Coralville Police. All four chiefs
were also in attendance. The
training was incredibly wellreceived,
even being declared the
"most effective diversity training"
folks had ever taken. The University
of Iowa believes this is a good
start - with no signs of stopping.
Outside of working with the
local police forces, the University
of Iowa NCBI affiliate has planned
a 2-day institute with Iowa City
downtown business districts. The
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on the NCBI Leadership for Equity
and Inclusion training. This initiative
will take place in early January
2017 in coalition with the Chief
Diversity Office, the Office of
Outreach & Engagement, and the
Iowa City Downtown District.
This two-day event hopes to build
better relationships with University
of Iowa students and the businesses
they utilize near campus.
Participants will dive deeper into
learning more about identity, bias,
and strategies to have more inclusive
customer service through a
discussion-based review of case
studies.
What’s next for the UI NCBI
Affiliate? We are about to plan the
best NCBI Campus Conference
yet, set f or November 1 6 -
November 18, 2017. We hope to
see you there!
Dana Dominguez,
University of Iowa
Partnering to bring NCBI principles to the USDA
NCBI, VTC, and USDA. This
is a lot of acronyms, but they
come together to mean a successful
training and exposure to NCBI
by many new participants. The
United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) has an office on
the campus of NC State University
in Raleigh, NC.
A USDA staff member, Roberta
Morales, who is also adjunct
faculty and a member of the NC
State University NCBI team wanted
to bring the NCBI model to
the USDA. One concern within
the organization was that training
is always held in certain locations
preventing staff in more remote
locations from participating. So
the idea of video teleconferencing
(VTC) was introduced. The VTC
was setup to allow staff members
in Raleigh, NC and Riverdale, MD
to participate in a joint session.
Each site had approximately 25
participants. Working through
NCBI headquarter, a team of four
facilitators (Beverly Jones Williams
and Roger Callanan in Raleigh;
Idella Glenn and Peter Cowen in
Riverdale) planned and facilitated a
3-hour video session that allowed
for both intimacy and for greater
interaction across state lines.
Feedback from the session
revealed that 97% of participants
rated the overall quality of the
workshop as a “4” or “5” on a 5-
point scale. In addition, 97% of
participants indicated that the
session increased their knowledge
about diversity and would recommend
the session to others. Evaluations
included such comments
as “Great workshop! Would like
the longer version! Great job!”,
“Good to have these conversations
and permission to ask” and
“Travelled 4 hours one way for
workshop - it was worth it”. The
workshop was well received by a
huge majority of participants! .
Beverly Jones Williams
North Carolina State University
“Travelled 4 hours
one way for workshop
- it was worth it”.
“Great workshop!
Would like the longer
version!”
The NCBI team at NSCC is moving “Healing into Action”
The work of the National
Coalition Building Institute is alive
and well here at North Shore
Community College (NSCC).
Since June, we’ve offered 17 inclassroom
workshops with a small
team of active trainers. Our goal
is to expand our pool of trainers.
In keeping with that goal, we sent
two staff members, David Bueno
and Bonie Williamson, to the
NCBI Leadership for Diversity
Institute in Maryland in October.
2016. We look forward to having
Bonie and David as an active part
of our team.
In addition to classroom
workshops, we completed, with
the help of our sister institution,
Middlesex Community College, a
One Day Training for faculty, staff,
and students in June, primarily
composed of new people to our
College. It was a great success.
Our Vice-President of Academic
Affairs offered accolades to the
team after the workshop. North
Shore Community College is located
in a very “blue” state, Massachusetts.
The results of the
Presidential election have brought
up a lot of feelings particularly for
those who supported Hillary Clinton
or Jill Stein but also for those
who supported President-elect
Donald Trump or Gary Johnson.
To help process those feelings,
NCBI partnered with our college
“We completed, with
the help of our sister
institution, Middlesex
Community College, a
One Day Training for
faculty, staff, and students
in June... It was
a great success”

NCBI Creates Communities in which everyone want to belong !
National Coalition
Building Institute
8403 Colesville Road
Suite 1100
Phone: (240) 638-2813
Email: info@ncbi.org
www.ncbi.org
We are on
Social Media
The NCBI team at NSCC - Continued
counselors and staff in Student Life
to offer Listening Sessions at our
Danvers and Lynn Campuses. We
are currently working on a plan to
support students during the inauguration
and first 100 days process.
NSCC is very lucky to have
Dale Capristo as our support
person for our NCBI leadership
team. Monthly meetings with
Dale have helped us to keep focused
on the work of NCBI and
move that work forward at the
College. We are also grateful to
have had the support of Robert
Dungey, the former Director of
NCBI’s campus program, for two
decades.
At North Shore, we look forward
to continuing our NCBI
work, now more important than
ever, as we move forward from
“Healing into Action”.
Dave Houle
North Shore Community College
“NCBI partnered with
our college counselors
and staff in Student Life
to offer Listening
Sessions at our Danvers
and Lynn campuses”
NCBI’s Team at University of Alaska: Building Allies
NCBI’s team at the University of
Alaska, Anchorage.
“We have discovered,
through overwhelmingly
positive feedback submitted
by workshop attendees, that
this method better reflects
our comprehensive and
collaborative nature as a
team.”
Over the past twelve months,
the University of Alaska, Anchorage
(UAA) NCBI Team successfully
recruited and trained five new
colleagues (via two Train-the-
Trainer Workshops at North
Carolina State University in Raleigh,
North Carolina), thereby
substantially adding to our existing
twelve-member-strong team for a
current total of seventeen individuals.
As a collective group dedicated
to Social Inclusion and Equity,
we are proud to say that we offered
two full-day workshops (20
participants each) for UAA's
E m e r g i n g S t u d e n t L e a d e r s
(February 2016) and for all UAA
Student-Staff-Faculty Members
(October 2016). We have revolutionized
our co-leadership approach
into a tri-leadership model
for day-long workshops, and we
have discovered (through over-
whelmingly positive feedback submitted
by workshop attendees)
that this method better reflects
our comprehensive and collaborative
nature as a team.
Over the course of the entire
year, fourteen NCBI Modules
were delivered during Howl Days-
-UAA New Student Orientation
Sessions--exposing hundreds of
students to our Diversity Mission.
Two important NCBI Listening
Tables regarding pressing Alaskan
issues were offered during February
2016: "Arms on Campus" and
"University Re-structuring." In
addition, several members visited
selected GUIDANCE 150 class
sessions, providing NCBI Modules
to students acclimating to their
first semester within a university
system.
Finally, our UAA Team closed
the calendar year by offering an
NCBI Holiday Social (December
2016) in which we reunited with a
total of twelve October 2016
workshop participants who still
wish to maintain close contact
with our entire Campus Affiliate
as "NCBI Allies." We send good
cheer from Alaska to all NCBI
members across the nation, and
we look forward to sharing the
results of our next all-inclusive
Student-Staff-Faculty workshop in
preparation for February 2017!"-
Patricia Fagan
University of Ala ska, Anchorage

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NCBI at the Medical College of Wisconsin
The NCBI team at the Medical
College of Wisconsin, the MCW
Coalition Builders mission is to
foster a culture of awareness,
effective communication and respect
among the MCW community
by facilitating skill building
workshops and encouraging a
broadened definition, and deeper
understanding/appreciation of
diversity. Our vision is to create a
Medical College of Wisconsin
community where all individuals
feel safe, respected, valued and
empowered to promote social
equity (diversity) and inclusion
with values of humanity, integrity
and respect. There are currently
over thirty people on our Coalition
Builders team and MCW has
hosted three NCBI train-intrainers.
Due to the value our leaders
have placed on the NCBI program,
it was decided to set intuitional
goals for participation. The
goal of MCW is to cultivate a
campus culture that embraces,
respects, honors, and recognizes
the value of differences and inclusion
in our pursuit to improve the
health of our citizens.
In 2015, our goal was the
completion of NCBI training for
any staff or faculty member hired
on or before March 31, 2015 who
functions in a leadership capacity.
The Threshold goal was: 60%;
Target: 70% and Stretch: 80%.
Leadership definition: Supervise 2
or more people or Hold a formal
leadership role, for example: Director,
Administrator or Executive
Chief, Chairman or Dean. At
the close of fiscal year 2015
86.67% of campus leaders have
completed the NCBI training,
exceeding the stretch goal of 80%.
Of the regularly scheduled workshops,
576 participants attended
18 workshops.
In 2016, we aimed to complete
of NCBI training for any staff
or faculty member hired on or
before March 31, 2016 who functions
in a leadership capacity. The
Threshold goal was: 80%; Target:
90% and Stretch: 95%. Leadership
definition: Supervise 2 or more
people or Hold a formal leadership
role, for example: Director,
Administrator or Executive Chief,
Chairman or Dean. At the close of
fiscal year 2016 96.50% of campus
leaders completed the NCBI training,
exceeding the stretch goal of
95%.
The Coalition Builders team
has offered full NCBI diversity
workshops for Obstetrics & Gynecology,
Neuropsychology and
Anesthesiology Residency Programs,
third year medical students
and at a Midwest Association
Graduate Admissions Conference.
In addition, the team has led abbreviated
workshop experiences
for the departments of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation, Pediatrics,
Radiation Oncology, MCW
S t u d e n t S u m m e r P r o g r a m s
(Diversity Summer Health-related
Research Education Program,
Environmental Health Science
Program, Apprenticeship in Medicine,
Research Opportunity for
Academic Development in Science,
Project SEED, Summer Program
for Undergraduate Research
and Medical Student Summer Research
Program) and DRIVE pipeline
program.
As of today, the team has led
over 1,300 MCW faculty, staff and
trainees in over 40 workshops,
with overwhelmingly positive feedback.
Ashley Hines
Chief Diversity Officer
MCW
Partcipants at an NCBI Train-the-
Trainer led by MCW staff
“As of today, the team
has led over 1,300
MCW faculty, staff and
trainees”
“The goal of MCW is
to cultivate a culture
that embraces,
respects, honors, and
recognizes the value
of differences and
inclusion in our pursuit
to improve the health
of our citizens”