Trainings & Speaking Engagements
Basic Rights Education Center
Oregon has made tremendous progress in creating safe and affirming workplaces for lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees. However, more than 90% of transgender and gender-diverse people report experiencing harassment or discrimination at work. The Basic Rights Education Center works to improve the experience of transgender people in the workplace.
The program is designed to build a shared discourse around transgender identities, using narrative to detangle concepts such as sex and gender. From there, attendees will receive training on their specific roles as allies to their transgender co-workers and clients, including conversations around pronouns, facilities, and transitioning.
Our training program is flexible, and modifications to our content are often made based on the profile of your organization and the specific audience being trained. We are able to provide our training to most any audience.
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Menu of Services
All of our trainings are three hours long, and are currently all being conducted online-only. To prevent Zoom fatigue, we’re happy to break these trainings into two 90-minute sessions.
We can customize our trainings for a wide range of clientele, including but not limited to the following:
Patient Services in Healthcare
Human Resources
Customer Service
Education/Youth Serving Organizations
City, State & Government Agencies
Community-Based Organizations
Private Sector Workplaces
Below are summaries of the trainings we offer. For a detailed description of all services offered, please email trainings@basicrights.org. If you’re interested in having a BRO training at your workplace, please fill out the inquiry form below.
Trainings
Transgender Inclusion and Affirmation in the Workplace
Our flagship training, Transgender Inclusion in the Workplace will start attendees on their journey to being affirming coworkers to transgender people. This program is equipped to highlight inclusion practices based on the needs of our client, such as for transgender co-workers, students, clients, and more.
LGBTQ2SIA+ Inclusion and Affirmation in the Workplace
This training offers a comprehensive introduction on including and affirming all LGBTQ2SIA+ people in the workplace.
Speaking Engagements
In addition to our employee trainings, BRO also offers a paid hour-long “lunch and learn,” or speaking engagement, which covers the history of LGBTQ2SIA+ rights in Oregon and BRO’s role in it all. Our goal with this presentation is to give attendees a firm foundation in understanding the long, ongoing fight for LGBTQ2SIA+ liberation in Oregon, and inspire folks to get involved in the work that continues today.
We may also provide more specialized speaking engagements on a case-by-case basis. Contact our Basic Rights Education Center training team for more information: trainings@basicrights.org.