Foundations of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training

The faculty, staff, students, postdoctoral scholars, trainees, alumni, volunteers, patients, vendors and visitors of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals (BCH) represent many diverse characteristics, beliefs, and affiliations. Recognizing this rich diversity, BCH seeks to offer all hospital community members an equitable, inclusive, welcoming, secure, responsive, and affirming environment that fosters mutual respect, empathy and trust. As part of our organizational goals to dismantle structural racism and embed Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) thinking in our everyday practices, it is important that we all have common understanding and definitions of basic Diversity, Equity & Inclusion concepts.

The UCSF Office of Diversity & Outreach (ODO) has developed a 45-minute online DEI Foundational training, mandatory for all BCH staff, faculty, leadership, and board members. The training will be available for BCH SF staff on the Learning & Organizational Development (LMS) platform, whereas BCH OAK staff will access the training through HealthStream, starting January 25, 2021.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Champion Training

Clinical teachers are not trained in how to handle bias and discrimination in the clinical setting where they are teaching. When bias occurs, they don’t feel comfortable addressing it. Students have complained that these issues are not being addressed appropriately, and that it negatively impacts the learning environment. As part of the UCSF School of Medicine Differences Matter initiative, the goal of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion training is to increase awareness and skills for clinical teachers so that they can address bias and discrimination when and where it happens.

Diversity and Inclusion Staff Certificate Program 

This Certificate Program focuses on exploring foundational concepts essential to enhancing an inclusive work environment through lecture, experiential and independent activities. Participants may explore their own backgrounds to deepen their understanding on stereotypes and biases and learn the tools to support a more inclusive climate.

Learning Goals: To develop a more capable workforce by enhancing staff competencies and capacity relevant to diversity, equity and inclusion, in order to leverage these toward achieving and sustaining campus wide excellence.

Learning and Organization Development

The UCSF Learning & Organization Development is a free online learning portal for UCSF BCH staff to inspire professional excellence, and attract, develop, and retain outstanding and diverse people, who together advance health worldwide.To access, you must log on to UCSF MyAccess. Under the Applications tab, scroll down to UC Learning Center and click on the link. You will be directed to the Learning Center website.

LinkedIn Learning Center

LinkedIn the world's largest professional nework with 706+ million user in more than 200 countries and terrorities. LinkedIn Learning Center has over 16,000 expert-led, online courses and video tutorials. 

To access, you must log on to UCSF MyAccess. Under the Applications tab, scroll down to LinkedIn Learning and click on the link. You will be directed to the LinkedIn Learning website. Log in with your LinkedIn account. You can now access LinkedIn Learning for free! 

The Office of Diversity & Outreach has partnered with Learning & Organizational Development to offer four curated collections of additional training and supplemental materials to further your DEI educational journey. These four collections correspond with the four topics introduced in the training and you may access these materials via UCSF LinkedIn Learning with MyAccess:

• Championing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
• Barriers to Equity and Inclusion
• Cultural Humility & Allyship
• Accountability and Opportunity

Caring for Linguistically Diverse Patients

This module will provide language resources and instructions to access tools to improve care provided to limited English language patients and families at UCSF Health. 

This module is offered as an informational resource only with no contact hours. Nurses can request the module through Nursing Connect to provide proof of completion on their transcript.

Brave Spaces

By introducing DEI principles into our True North Boards and hardwiring DEI into our True North Board thinking, we are developing structures and strategies to equip leaders with the ability to manage diversity, be accountable, measure results, refine approaches on the basis of such data, and institutionalize a culture of inclusion.