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2019 EMPLOYMENT FORUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
Interacting with Clients: Building Stronger and Safer Relationships
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Panelists:CATHERINE CHAMBERSTeacher-Researcher
DIANE SMYLIEProvincial Director, Ontario Indigenous Cultural Safety Program, Southwest Aboriginal Health Access Centre
LEILA MONIBProvincial Practice Lead, Southwest Aboriginal Health Access Centre
DOMINIQUE-MICHELLE LEGACYTransitional Case Manager, Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre
WENDY BEALESFamily Therapist, Family Services Division, Region of Durham
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2019 EMPLOYMENT FORUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
CATHERINE CHAMBERSTeacher-Researcher
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Are you starting to question your assumptions?
Good.
Are we starting to question our assumptions?
Great!
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Our brains are hardwired to make assumptions
Assumptions lead to bias
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Bias Defined...
A prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with
another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
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Unconscious Bias
Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of
people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness.
Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity
groups, and these biases stem from one’s tendency to organize social
worlds by categorizing.
Source: University of California
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Most Biases are Hidden
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We’d like to believe we are open-minded, fair
and without bias, but research shows otherwise.
This is an important, even if uncomfortable,
realization for most of us. -- Mahzarin Banaji
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implicit.harvard.edu
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● Age IAT
● Arab-Muslim IAT
● Asian IAT
● Disability IAT
● Gender-Career IAT
● Gender-Science IAT
● Native IAT
● Presidents IAT
● Race IAT
● Religion IAT
● Sexuality IAT
● Skin-tone IAT
● Weapons IAT
● Weight IAT
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What has been learned
about our preferences?
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The IAT is a bias mitigation tool
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Biases can be informed by negative experiences, early messaging, etc.
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What is this?
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Mental shortcuts...
...trigger fight or flight responses
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“Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must
be habitual and uninterrupted.”
―William Hazlitt,
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Most biases are
unconscious
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● Alan: intelligent, industrious, impulsive, critical, stubborn, envious.
● Ben: envious, stubborn, critical, impulsive, industrious, intelligent.
Source: Thinking Fast and Slow
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Impact of Bias
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Where does bias show up?How can we mitigate unconscious bias?
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Mitigating Unconscious Bias in
Employment Services
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Where does bias show up?● Recruitment and Selection
● Career Development● Performance Management
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*ABCs of Bias
Affirmation Bias
Hiring people who we relate to
Benevolent Bias
Providing opportunities to preferred staff
Denying opportunities to staff based on perceptions
Confirmation Bias
Focusing on evidence to support negative beliefs
*There are Approximately 150 types of unconscious bias
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Mitigation strategies vary from sector to sector...
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Community Health: Access Alliance - Toronto
Any struggle against oppression must be
informed by an anti-racist framework.
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Child Protection
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Private Sector
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VUCA Times
Volatile
Uncertain
Complex
Ambiguous
Innovation
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The Status of Innovation Nation
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Unconscious Bias and Innovation
In a 2013 paper, “Not Just for Stereotyping Anymore,” Carmit
Tadmor, a psychologist at the Recanati School of Business at Tel
Aviv University, and her colleagues showed that prejudice can play
a direct role in making people less innovative and creative…
(Bergonzi, 2015)
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Research is a key innovation metric
...the literature on entrepreneurship on entrepreneurship by poor women in
America, and particularly women who are welfare recipients, is grossly
inadequate. Few researchers have investigated the number of welfare
recipients who engage in independent economic activities, who attempt to
become self-sufficient through business ownership, or the strategies used by
poor women to overcome barriers to business ownership. Most of the data
on this population comes from those entrepreneurial assistance programs
who specifically target low income persons (Rodriguez, 2014).
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Research Micro-Entrepreneurship to improve outcomes
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Change the narrative
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2019 EMPLOYMENT FORUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
DOMINIQUE-MICHELLE LEGACYTransitional Case Manager, Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre
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What is Trauma Informed Care (TIC)?
SAMHSA’s Trauma Informed Approach (Lang et al., 2015)
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Re-Traumatization
Touch, smell, noises
Power dynamics of a relationship
Gender of provider
Loss of and lack of privacy
“Look of the environment”
Specific wording or words
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Putting into practice• Culturally safe and welcoming waiting area, front desk and
meeting room. Ex. Indigenous art, medicines available, resources
available for indigenous clients.
• Have food and beverages available for clients.
• If client seems anxious, provide an alternate location where you
can establish safety. Offer smudging or grounding techniques.
• Take time to introduce yourself, not only as a professional but as
a person.
• Be aware of lighting, noises and smells. Ask for feedback directly
to client.
• Allow room in your schedule for late arrivals. Be flexible!
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Allow multiple no shows at no cost, but explore barriers to help reduce NS.
Continuous assessment of body language for stress reactions. Ex: crying,
sweating, fidgeting, shaking, gripping the table, etc.
Mindful of your own body language. Ex: if client is sitting you should also be
sitting.
Explore the idea of letting go of what you’ve heard of the client.
Giving individuals lots of options, they are in charge.
Explain everything you do! Don’t use abbreviations or jargon.
Respond appropriately and Apologize when needed.
Take away seeds…Be an advocate for TIP & start building relationships with
the local indigenous communities.
Putting into practice
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2019 EMPLOYMENT FORUM
PANEL DISCUSSION
WENDY BEALESFamily Therapist, Family Services Division, Region of Durham
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“Helping you find your inherent strength, courage and wisdom”
Family Services Durham/FSEAP Durham
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The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing: The “Music”
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empathy
Acceptance….
absoluteworth
autonomy affirmations
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• Ambivalence…..where does it show up and how might it present?
• The “righting reflex” … how, when and why might this show up?
• Re-thinking the term “resistance” … what meaning can this word hold or convey?