“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” Angela Y. Davis
VANSDA offers 2 valuable training programs designed for organizations of all types. From private Business, Government, Community Organizations, Educators etc., these intensive workshops will open your pathway to change.
Developed with the participant experience as the priority, the program (s) aim to educate, challenge and promote in a safe environment opportunity for conversation and engagement.
The two workshops are offered separately but can be offered as a complete training program over multiple days (2) depending upon your group needs.

Overcoming History
The Impact of Race on Building Cultural Competency- focuses on interpersonal relations and the understanding of how unconscious bias shapes our relationships at work and at home.
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Transition 2 Employment Equity
Focuses upon how to recognize, challenge and change organizational culture.
For both programs above participants will receive a completion certificate.

30 Day Racial Equity Challenge
VANSDA is pleased to introduce our Racial Equity Challenge in response to numerous requests by business community and public to help begin and guide their efforts to attain greater awareness of the inequities BIPOC (Black- Indigenous- Persons of Colour) persons have endured for generations as the active result of racial privilege.