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Posts Tagged: equity
Moving the needle on racial equity in Extension
A recently published series of blog posts on the Connect Extension website shares insights on developing authentic, meaningful relationships with racially and culturally diverse groups.
Written by Sonja Brodt, associate director of the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program and Gail Feenstra, emeritus SAREP director, the posts are based on what they learned during UC SAREP's "Racial Equity in Extension" webinar series.
The series, comprising six 90-minute webinars held in 2021, covered topics ranging from building relationships with agricultural communities of color, to respecting different knowledge systems, to rectifying racial inequities in land access.
“As extension professionals, especially for those of us in the public sector, it is incumbent upon us to work with all segments of our state's agricultural and natural resources clientele,” said Brodt. “And to do so effectively, we need to understand their worldviews and what's the knowledge base that shapes their decisions. This is especially important when those people are from cultures or segments of society that have a history of being marginalized or oppressed by our larger society, and whose significant knowledge has often been made invisible.”
L&D: Youth safety nets, videography, timesheets, conflict competence, managing stress
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Weaving Community Safety Nets for Youth (Extension Foundation)
Nov. 2
8-9:30 a.m. PDT
Details & Registration
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents in the United States. Research indicates that adolescents in military families have higher rates of suicidal behaviors than their non-military peers. However, many suicides are preventable. We can intentionally build, mobilize and maintain protective factors, recognize and respond to warning signs, and sustain a safety net of connection in our communities to better support military children, adolescents and their families. Read more.
Nov. 9
Noon-12:30 p.m.
This will be recorded and posted on the 2023-34 Call for CE Positions.
These maps illustrate current positions for UCCE Advisors, UCCE Specialists, other UCCE Academics and Community Educators, as well as the UCCE Advisor and Specialist positions under recruitment. Newly available secondary data layers provide county level data with relevant information that, when coupled with local knowledge, can help illuminate gaps and needs to inform UCCE position proposal development and future hiring.
Zoom: https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09 | Password: 4Learning
2023 NAEPSDP Annual Conference “Extension Elevated”
(National Association for Extension Programs and Staff Development Professionals)
Nov. 28-30
Marriott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Details & Registration. Agenda.
Conference theme areas include:
- Evaluation & Assessment
- Organizational & Staff Development
- Program Development & Delivery
- Technology & Communications
- Persevering Through the Difficult Times: Exploring Calling Development Theory as a Retention Strategy.
- How Organization Health Attracts and Retains Top Talent in Extension.
Two Videography Training Opportunities!
UC ANR Videography Training Series
Nov 20 & 21 | ANR Building, Davis
Registration.
Learn photographic theory, smartphone video production, and equipment recommendations. Dive into field recording, audio editing, and compare audio editing applications. Master editing theory and visual storytelling, explore nonlinear editing tools, and work on real footage with live coaching. Unlock your creative potential with our comprehensive videography workshop series. Get hands-on experience and expert guidance to enhance your video production skills. For more information, contact anrprogramsupport@ucanr.edu
Video Recording and Editing with Your Smartphone
8 a.m.-5 p.m. at various UC ANR locations
Registration
Riverside - Thursday, Dec. 7
Irvine - Wednesday, Jan. 10
San Diego - Thursday, Jan. 18
Davis - Thursday, Feb. 8
Fresno - Wednesday, Feb. 14
In this training, you will learn:
- How to set up your smartphone
- A and B roll
- Basic composition
- Basic Lighting (daylight/cold light)
- Audio best practices
Hands-on video shooting with interviews
For more information, contact Ricardo Vela rvela@ucanr.edu
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Visual Storytelling in PowerPoint (LinkedIn Learning)
Course link.
Incorporating visual storytelling techniques into your slides can set you apart in a very big way. In this course, instructor Jole Simmons brings years of experience as a professional presentation designer to teach you how to make your presentation come alive with a good story.
For your LinkedIn Learning account email UC ANR IT at help@ucanr.edu.
Understanding Your Timesheet
Nov. 2, 2023
Noon-12:30 p.m.
Join Anne Marie Scott, Payroll Manager, to learn how to develop employee and supervisor/approver understanding of TRS and timesheet deadlines. Part of the Business Operations Center Quarterly Webinars: Our Two Cents.
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning
In case you missed it:
Giving Tuesday: Hot topics and Tips for Success
with Emily Delk (Oct. 17, 2023)
Video, Slide deck
Moving the Needle on Racial Equity in Extension (UC ANR and Extension Foundation)
Sonja Brodt and Gail Feenstra
The 1862 Land Grant institutions were founded during the immediate post-Civil War, postslavery period for the benefit of white farmers and homesteaders and were built on the wealth generated by land expropriated from indigenous peoples across the U.S. (Joseph A. Myers Center, 2021). With a history so fraught with racial oppression, our public sector extension service faces an enormous task not only in righting past wrongs, but in moving forward in truly meeting the needs of contemporary people of color. read more.
Teamwork Favorites (Extension Foundation)
- Diffuse the Drama, Nov. 1
- Busy is a Choice, Nov. 8
- Diffusion of Innovations, Nov. 15
11 a.m.-Noon
Registration.
Diffusing the Drama dives into three roles we play out every day; victim, villain and hero. This is from Dr. Stephen Karpman's work called the "Drama Triangle" and we'll discover how getting out of those and into healthier roles can help change our daily experience. We'd love to have you with us to offer your wisdom as we move toward coach, creator and challenger!
Nov 9
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PT
Details & Registration
Are you stressed? Do you feel devastated when your articles and/or grant proposals get rejected? Is the pressure of publishing/funding your work making you sick? If any of this sounds familiar and you have difficulty managing the negative energy and rejection in your environment, please join us to learn:
- The impact that stress and negativity can have if they are not manage
- Identify the most common areas of stress in academic life
- Concrete strategies for managing the physical, emotional, and attitudinal effects of stress
Becoming Better with Habits (UC Davis Health)
Tuesday, Nov. 28
9 a.m.–Noon
Virtual Instructor
Registration.
Think of the small actions you do every day without even thinking. These are your habits. Like it or not, our habits define who we are. This course gives you actionable steps to break habits that no longer serve you, and intentionally create new ones. The end goal of working on habits is to gain clarity, confidence and the ability to accomplish your life goals.
Conflict Competence: Getting to the root of group conflict (UCD for Staff and Faculty)
Thursday, Nov. 30
Noon–1 p.m.
Details & Registration.
Group conflict can be difficult to manage and have costly consequences. It can significantly impact productivity and work quality and even destroy teams. While conflict is often attributed to interpersonal dynamics or "people problems," conflicts are commonly symptoms of other solvable issues.
In this course for leaders of groups or teams, you'll learn a structured approach to identify and address root causes of group conflict. Discover how to apply the Goals, Roles, Processes and Interpersonal Relationships (GRPI).
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Everyone can learn something new
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L&D Messaging your clientele, Customer relations, Equity-minded review letters, Pcard vs. Travel card, Art of saying no
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Extension Skills July 2023: Marketing Research for Messaging
July 13
11 a.m. - Noon
Details & Registration.
Are you interested in learning how to develop messages that resonate with your Extension partners? Join us for a brief session with Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, to discuss how to identify and work with your priority populations to tailor messages that resonate with them.
How Customer Management Relations (CRM) can play a role in helping Cooperative Extension professionals co-create value between their programs and their clients and improve customer service experiences.
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Fast Track to Contracts & Grants spring 2023 presentation recordings
April 12, 2023 | Introduction to Contracts & Grants (video) Slide deck, with Kim Lamar
April 14, 2023 | From Concept to Submission (AKA Proposal Development and Proposal Process video), Slide deck, with Vanity Campbell, et al
April 19, 2023 | Cost Share and Academic Cost Recovery-Salary Savings (video), Slide deck
April 21, 2023 | Proposal budget preparation basics (or Budget Basics and Calculator) (Video), Slide deck (PDF) with Kendra Rose
May 3, 2023 | Using the new ANR Workflow Automation program to route C&G Forms “800“and Advance Account Request (Video), Slide deck (PDF) Form 800 Quick Guide (PDF) Advance Account Quick Guide (PDF)
May 5, 2023 | Understanding the awards process (Video), Slide deck (PDF)
May 10, 2023 | Working with Subrecipients (Video), Slide deck (PDF)
May 12, 2023 | Post Award Process (Video), Slide deck (PDF)
An Equity-Minded Approach to Writing Effective External Review Letters for Tenure
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July 18
11 a.m. – Noon
Details & Registration
Senior faculty are incredibly powerful. In a two-page tenure letter, they can make or break a career. This power has an outsized impact on scholars with marginalized identities, such as Black academics, who are promoted with tenure at lower rates than their White colleagues. We suggest that this difference in tenure rates is due to an implicit, overly narrow definition of academic excellence that does not recognize all contributions that Black scholars make to their departments, institutions and academia in general. Read more.
Diversity Certificate Series (UC Davis, Equity and Inclusion Program and Learning Center)
The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Education Program, in partnership with UC Davis Learning and Development, offers the Cross-Cultural Competence Certificate Series and the Understanding Diversity Certificate Series, both of which are aimed at developing and strengthening competencies in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion. Image by Tumisu from Pixabay
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When to Use P-Cards vs. Travel Cards
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Quarterly Webinars: Our Two Cents
July 20
12-12:30 p.m.
Zoom webinar link https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/751701428?pwd=Q1ZrbUtoQVJwMXJVRkQydUlwNytJQT09
Password: 4Learning | +1 669 900 6833 | Webinar ID: 751 701 428
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Fostering Health and Well-Being Across Extension (free - Sponsored by NAEPSDP - National Association of Extension Programs and Staff Development Professionals)
July 10-14
Noon – 1 p.m. Pacific Time
Register.
This year's theme is wellness and will focus on efforts at the organizational, managerial, employee and community levels to provide health and well-being programs and opportunities for employees and clientele. We will wrap up the week discussing ways to tell our health and well-being story more effectively. Who should participate in Virtual Summer School? Anyone! From Extension directors to mid-managers, to program and staff development specialists and
beyond. We welcome anyone interested in these topics to join us for any or all of the sessions.
The Art of Saying "No" (National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity)
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July 13, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Details & Registration
Are you confused about when to say "yes" and "no" to other people's requests? Do you often say "yes" to requests without realizing the impact that response will have on your time and productivity? Do you find yourself feeling angry and resentful because you've said "yes" too often? Come and learn our favorite strategies that you can implement immediately so you can add "no" to your vocabulary.
Tuesday, July 18
12:10 - 1 p.m.
Register for the Zoom webinar.
We will explore how to create quick, healthy balanced meals in minutes. You don't need a culinary degree to prepare healthy meals, but you do need to prepare. We will review how to prep, plan and get creative for quick, nutritionally balanced meals. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join via computer or phone. Share the event flyer with your colleagues! Presented by UC Davis Health Food and Nutrition Services and Staff and Faculty Health and Well-being. Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay
Be the manager people won't leave (LinkedIn Learning)
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Manager relationships can be the make-or-break point for whether employees stay or go. Join veteran HR leader LaurieRuettimann as she reveals the data behind why it's more important than ever to be a manager who demonstrates empathy and inspires loyalty from the workforce. Ruettimann covers basics first: be someone people can trust, be an example of integrity and be relentlessly inclusive. She steps you through ways to inspire your employees to grow.
Evidence suggests that improvements in people management practices, especially the development of supportive managers paired with time and place flexibility, contribute to increased well-being.
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“Advancing Health Equity” webinars offered by UC ANR, UCSF
Training series set for April 5, May 3, June 7
Have you wondered how UC ANR can make a difference in advancing health equity?
UC ANR's Community Nutrition and Health unit is proud to host a three-part training series on “Advancing Health Equity” in collaboration with UCSF School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and Center for Child and Community Health. UC ANR educators, supervisors, advisors and specialists from across our statewide programs and initiatives are invited to attend.
This will be an interactive learning opportunity to come together and visualize how UC ANR can address critical health disparities we face and put into practice the opportunities outlined in our Strategic Initiatives Health Equity Concept Note (found here on the UC ANR website).
Please save the dates and plan to join this three-part series:
Session 1: 2-3:30 p.m., Wed. Apr. 5
Build your familiarity and understanding of core concepts related to health equity to establish a shared language about health equity at UC ANR.
Zoom Meeting
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/92318469375
Meeting ID: 923 1846 9375
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Session 2: 2-3:30 p.m., Wed. May 3
Identify how existing UC ANR work fits into the concepts and goals related to health equity including addressing the social determinants of health and policy, systems and environmental change work.
Zoom Meeting
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/96840522425
Meeting ID: 968 4052 2425
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Session 3: 2-3:30 p.m., Wed. June 7
Inform new areas and approaches UC ANR can work in to advance health equity in the future including transitioning from expert to partner within the communities that we serve.
Zoom Meeting
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/98465748502
Meeting ID: 984 6574 8502
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+16699006833,,98465748502# US (San Jose)
“Advancing Health Equity” webinars hosted by UC ANR and UCSF
Have you wondered how UC ANR can make a difference in advancing health equity?
UC ANR's Community Nutrition and Health unit is proud to host a three-part training series on “Advancing Health Equity” in collaboration with UC San Francisco School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and Center for Child and Community Health. UC ANR educators, supervisors, advisors and specialists from across our statewide programs and initiatives are invited to attend.
This will be an interactive learning opportunity to come together and visualize how UC ANR can address critical health disparities Californians face and put into practice the opportunities outlined in our Strategic Initiatives Health Equity Concept Note (found here on the UC ANR website).
Please save the dates and plan to join this 3-part series:
Session 1: 2-3:30 p.m., Wed. Apr. 5
Build your familiarity and understanding of core concepts related to health equity to establish a shared language about health equity at UC ANR.
Zoom Meeting
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/92318469375
Meeting ID: 923 1846 9375
One tap mobile
+16699006833,,92318469375# US (San Jose)
+16694449171,,92318469375# US
Session 2: 2-3:30 p.m., Wed. May 3
Identify how existing UC ANR work fits into the concepts and goals related to health equity including addressing the social determinants of health and policy, systems and environmental change work.
Zoom Meeting
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/96840522425
Meeting ID: 968 4052 2425
One tap mobile
+16699006833,,96840522425# US (San Jose)
+16694449171,,96840522425# US
Session 3: 2-3:30 p.m., Wed. June 7
Inform new areas and approaches UC ANR can work in to advance health equity in the future including transitioning from expert to partner within the communities that we serve.
Zoom Meeting
https://ucanr.zoom.us/j/98465748502
Meeting ID: 984 6574 8502
One tap mobile
+16694449171,,98465748502# US
+16699006833,,98465748502# US (San Jose)
