What does Florence of the Renaissance and the Silicon Valley in the 21st century have in common? Flocks of people with diverse background. Diversity Drives Innovation is one of the latest campaigns developed by Diversity CLUES …
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Cultural Awareness Training: City of Richmond
DiversityCLUES Consulting was retained by the City of Richmond to develop and deliver custom-made training for City’s employees to improve their cultural awareness when delivering municipal services in Richmond. Over the period of 2014-2016, Olga and two associates delivered five 2-day training sessions to over 100 employees, including front line workers and management staff. Over 100 staff have participated in training sessions from 2014-2016.
City of Richmond clients come from diverse backgrounds. Their needs and expectations for service vary according to personal attributes (such as age, gender, and socioeconomic status, etc.), but are also shaped by their cultural heritage. DiviversityCLUES team conducted a comprehensive research and developed a training curriculum that included a variety of experiential learning activities to engage adult learners. This training course aims at helping city staff enhance their “cultural lens” when they serve the multicultural population in Richmond, adding value to their current service practices and protocols.
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Planning Canada: A Case Study Approach
Olga Shcherbyna, along with Nora Angeles and John Foster, co-authored a chapter in a new Canadian planning textbook (2016) which brings together a collection of essays and studies covering a wide array of planning topics.
Edited by Ren Thomas, the textbook includes a range of practice and research based cases in eight areas: community and social planning, urban form and public health, natural resource management, housing, participatory processes, urban design, urban redevelopment, and transportation and infrastructure planning. They include examples from urban, rural, and Aboriginal communities across the country.
Planning Canada: A Case Study Approach is intended to introduce undergraduate students in planning, geography, and urban studies to the planning discipline in Canada, but the case studies offer enough depth to be used in graduate courses as well.
Chapter 2.1: Promising Practices in Social Plan Development and Implementation: Applying Lessons Learned from Canadian Urban Municipalities in the City of Richmond, British Columbia by John Foster, Olga Shcherbyna, and Leonora Angeles
The Importance of Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Workplace
In the midst of social movements around equity, diversity, and inclusion, we find ourselves asking how important it is for us to be diverse and inclusive at work and what that really means for organizations. …
SFU Public Square presents 2018 Community Summit – Brave New Work
The 2018 Community Summit, Brave New Work, invites us to consider how we can all thrive in the changing world of work.
Technological growth is happening at an unprecedented rate and scale, and it is fundamentally …
Smart City Talk: VANPLAY SMART CITY TALKS: CELEBRATION + DIVERSITY
Listen. Learn. Vote.
Experts dispute the future of our region. You decide.
Teams of experts argue competing visions for solving Metro Vancouver’s biggest challenges. Audience members vote before and after each debate, a prize awarded to the …
Art, Science & Spirituality: An integrated, holistic approach to diversity and social change.
About: “Diversity and social change efforts are essentially, well … about change. And those that take on this work are often passionate committed people who give 110% of themselves to the cause. …
Newcomers to Canada Employment Dialogue by SFU-TD Engagement Centre
The Dialogue will be held on March 24th from 5:30pm – 7:30pm at SFU Surrey. City staff from Parks and Rec and Human Resources Department will present at the event. Additionally, members of the …
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Leading the Way Program: Minerva Foundation
Olga Shcherbyna was accepted to be a part of the Minerva’s leadership program – Women Leading The Way.
Women Leading the Way™ is an interactive, part-time training program for established and emerging leaders. Grounded in the …
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What’s wrong with being “leftie socialist”?
I am biased. Any programs that any Canadian municipality introduces with the goal of being a more inclusive service provider and employer makes me happy. Some may even call me “leftie socialist” as did one …
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We are presenting at the 2019 PLAN Conference
On July 6, 2019, Olga Shcherbyna and Nora Angeles will be presenting a workshop at the National PLAN Canada conference.
Location: Ottawa, 2019 PLAN Conference
Workshop: The Role of Local Governments in Leading Innovative Solutions in Newcomer Integration …
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An Update of City of Richmond’s Youth Service Plan 2008-2012
Diversity Clues Consulting Inc. was retained by SPARC BC as a partnering consulting agency to update the Richmond’s Youth Service Plan 2008-2012.
Project: An Update of the Richmond Youth Service Plan 2008-2012
Client: SPARC BC for the …
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Puzzles: Engaging Adult Learners
At DiversityCLUES, we utilize creativity and challenge conventional adult-learning methods not only in the curriculum design. We experiment with learning tools for training participants. Crossword puzzles are proven to be simple and creative tools to activate learning and increase engagement …
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