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14 <br /> VISIONS helps to create mindsets, practices, and systems that can navigate similarities and <br /> differences in a culturally sensitive and effective manner. Our process teaches people how to <br /> make sustainable change. It equips individuals and organizations with the knowledge, tools and <br /> confidence to recognize, understand, appreciate, and leverage differences. In accordance with <br /> our mission, we facilitate and support individuals and organizations as they create collaborative <br /> working environments that promote creativity, innovation, productivity, and equity. <br /> Our racially and culturally diverse consultants come from a variety of professional, educational, <br /> and community work experiences. We work with "the head and the heart" in a non-threatening <br /> and supportive manner to examine and appreciate one's own culture and that of others in <br /> order to build enhanced coalitions, cooperation, and teamwork. <br /> Our approach: Informed by years of diversity, inclusion, and social change facilitation and <br /> practice, VISIONS' model is built upon its understanding that change to any system must <br /> occur at multiple levels and address multiple variables of difference. We recognize that it <br /> is not enough to open the door to diversity at the institutional level alone. We have come <br /> to know that organizations must also address barriers to inclusion at the personal, <br /> interpersonal, and cultural levels. This approach reveals the attitudes, unconscious biases, <br /> and behaviors that prevent people from succeeding in organizations. VISIONS' work is <br /> underscored by its unique, research-based, and copyrighted Multicultural Process of <br /> Change and Four Levels of Analysis and Change model and framework. More information <br /> on this process is available at our website: www.visions-inc.org. <br /> PROPOSED SERVICES <br /> 1. Training and Consulting <br /> VISIONS has a core training model and consulting services with the flexibility to design <br /> sessions and consulting technical support in accordance with the diversity, equity, and <br /> inclusion needs of the client. VISIONS' training and consulting services can take a variety <br /> of forms and formats based on the needs and resources (funds and time constraints) of <br /> our clients. This training and consulting process will be designed and implemented in <br /> consultation with a leadership team composed of VISIONS consultants and stakeholder <br /> representatives from Orange County. <br /> Utilizing information from initial planning discussions, VISIONS will tailor our training <br /> models/components and consulting technical support to meet the needs of the <br /> organization. Orange County has expressed a desire to spread the training and consulting <br /> services over a period of three years with each employee in every department of the <br /> organization taking part in training and DEI integration activities within their department <br /> and inter-departmentally over several years. Between training sessions, there will be <br /> guidance provided for managers and leaders (including a specially trained DEI Leadership <br /> Team) to utilize modules and skills learned in the trainings in the daily work life of <br /> departments and groups that they lead. <br /> 3 <br />