Gradient Education and Training Center

Our education and advocacy programming is designed to meet the needs of our clients, from exploring Diversity and Inclusion to LGBTQ+ Allyship building. We hope to continue to add to our Education and Training offerings in the coming months and years to help better serve Findlay and Northwest Ohio.

Our trainings are delivered on a fee for service basis that is covered either by the recipient or through grant funding; all funds raised through this effort helps to support our community level programing.

Services offered: General Training Session: 1-2 hour canned training delivered either online or in-person. Training Plus: 1 hour pre-training consultation, training session, debrief session with next steps summary. Focused Consultation: Pre-training consultation, policy review, training, debrief session, recommendation and next steps summary report

General Diversity and Inclusion

BASIC

We All Belong

Topics covered:

  • What is Community?
  • The Continuum of Diversity
  • Equity & Belonging

INTERMEDIATE

Coming Soon...

ADVANCED

Coming Soon...

LGBTQ+ Allyship Building

Business

Investing in Allyship

Topics covered:

  • Population Data & Economic Impact
  • Terminology – Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
  • Policies & Representation
  • Inclusive Workplaces

Community

Allyship into Action

Topics Covered

  • Equity: Understanding our current landscape and the evidence base that shows the need for equity over equality.
  • Identity: Explore the topics of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in the context of evolving terminology.
  • History: Understand how the LGBTQ+ community has been viewed and represented previously.
  • Allyship: Explore allyship as active moments of advocacy

School Curriculum

For members of the LGBTQ+ community it is sometimes hard to find places that they belong, sometimes people believe they don’t belong in our community.  It is important to practice being respectful no matter what you, your friends, or your family may believe.  We can learn to be respectful of the LGBTQ+ community by learning about being Fair (Equity), being Ourselves (Identity), being mindful of the past (History), and being a great friend (Allyship).

This curriculum has been designed to be delivered by an educator who has completed the Alphabet Soup Train the Trainer Course.  It is also advised that the educator has completed a GLSEN Professional Development Workshop.

Ideally Alphabet Soup is implemented within a setting that is also utilizing the GLSEN inclusive curriculum resources and four pillar approach to creating inclusive schools.

  • Inclusive Policies
  • Staff Training
  • Inclusive Curriculum
  • Affirming Student Groups such as Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSA’s)
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