Organizational Change and Facilitation

School Boards/Education/Government

Extensive experience in developing and running workshops with education personnel - teachers, students, parents, principals and supervisory officers of school boards on issues related to curriculum development, class bias, racism, employment equity

Guest educator in classes at York & OISE, 1989-present.

Co-developed and taught (twice) a 10-week course on "Work, Racism and Labour" for the Humber College Labour Studies Centre (1982,83)

Anti-racist education planning for the British Columbia Teachers Federation (1985)

Anti-racist Consultant/educator for one year to Ryerson Public School, Toronto Board of Education (1981)

Anti-racist Consultant/educator for one year to Lord Dufferin Public School, Toronto Board of Education (1986,87)

Facilitated planning process with the Minister's office of the Ministry of Colleges and Universities (1990);

Intervention with white students in a women?s studies program, OISE. (1992)

Consultant for two years to the Committee of Anti-racist Educators, Tor. Bd of Ed (86-87)

Evaluation of the Race Relations Program of the Toronto Board of Education (1984)

Anti-racism planning process for Area East, Toronto Board of Education (1991)

5-day program to agree on focus and develop curriculum for cultural interpreters, with the Ministry of Citizenship, (1994)

Recommendations on the role of anti-racism education in organizational change, for Multicultural and Race Relations Division, Municipality of Metro Toronto. Work included literature search, focus groups, preliminary assessments of programs, development of report with framework and recommendations (1994,95)

Anti-racism Organizational Strategy for Ontario Human Rights Commission. Work included work with committee, organization-wide focus groups, training inside facilitators, building support & commitment, writing job descriptions, recruiting and managing four staff. (November 1992-July 1993)

Research on Equity Indicators. Multiculturalism Canada, for the Annual Report to Parliament. November 2000-January 2001.

Training Canadian Heritage staff. 2-day working session with all Ontario officers. 1999.

Equity in organizations for Omnibus Project, Manitoba Canadian Heritage (2001)


Community / Women's / Service organizations

Organizational consultant and trainer for four years to the United Way's Multicultural Change Project (1985-1989)

Organization-building workshops for community agencies on goal-setting, power, conflict resolution, anti-racist organizational change, for Chinese Interagency Council; Healthsharing; Women Working with Immigrant Women, Emily Stowe Shelter, North York Women?s Shelter, Interval House (Ottawa), United Way Agencies (Hamilton), Women in Transition, Nightwood Theatre, LEAF, AIDS Committee of Toronto, and many other organizations (1985-present)

Facilitation, Evaluation and Planning processes with YWCA of Metropolitan Toronto Skills for Change program (1984); Development Education Centre (1990); Lawrence Heights Community Health Centre (1994,95); Jessie?s Centre for Teenagers (1992); Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre (1992); St Christopher House (1997); Woodgreen Community Centre (1997, 1999); Education Wife Assault (1994-1996); Metro Network for Social Justice (1996, 2000) and other organisations.

Facilitated evaluation & planning process for Mixed Company, a theatre company (1988)

Extensive training in organizational change for the managers of the Catholic Children's Aid Society (1990,91)

Evaluation of the CUSO Caribbean Cooperants' Program (1986)

Consultant/trainer to an Anti-racist Organizational Change Process in the Barbra Schlifer Clinic (1991)

Strategic Planning and Anti-racist training, Halton Partnership for Multicultural/Anti-racism Organizational Change (1994,95)

Anti-racism Organizational Planning and Change Project with Kitchener-Waterloo Sexual Assault Centre Work included needs assessment, working with a reference group, training in organizational structure/systems, developing a plan, documenting process. (May/94-Jan/95).

Anti-racism Employment Equity Change Process with the East York Health Unit. Work included establishing and training a joint management/union Employment Equity Committee, employment systems review, coaching, planning, making recommendations. (Jan.-Oct.1995)

Co-designed and facilitated process workshops on employment equity and racism for the staff of several women's shelters (from 1986 on)

Anti-racism Organizational Change Process with the YWCA of/du Canada. Work included needs assessment, working with a coordinating committee, policy review and development, training, documentation. (Summer 1994-1996)

Conflict Mediation with several groups, including WEGO (1995) and Barton St. Community Development Project, in Hamilton (1994)

Facilitated 2-day National Council Meetings for Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (March, November 1995); Toronto Training Board ( 1999); Board of United Way of Burlington, Hamilton-Wentworth (2000), and other organizations.

Organizational change work in Family Services, Toronto (March 2000 to Fall 2001) and Family Services, Hamilton-Wentworth (2000 & 2001)


Organization Building in the Community

• Regal Road Cooperative Daycare Centre. Co-founder and organizer (1974)
  
• Centre for Caribbean Dialogue. Co-founder and member of the (1985)
  
• Doris Marshall Institute for Education and Action. Co-founder and member (?86- ?96)
  
• Development Education Centre. Board Member & Chairperson (1980-1990)
  
• Labour Studies Committee, Toronto Board of Education. Member and writer (1978-86)
  
• Cross Cultural Communication Centre. Development of the structure and programming
  (1974-1983)
  
• Education Wife Assault. Board member and chair(1993-1996)
  
• Christie/Ossington Neighbourhood Centre . Board member & chair (1998-Sept.2001)