Purchasing The Mirror Images DVD Series
Businesses / Corporations
Discrimination and harassment within an organization can lead to a damaged reputation, increased expenses for the recruitment and training of new staff, and considerable litigation costs. Confronting and eliminating discrimination helps attract, motivate and retain staff. It helps employers make the best use of the skills and experience and can lead to a more diverse workforce, new ideas access to wider markets and a better image.
The Mirror Images series seeks to bridge cultural gaps between staff members and enable them to work efficiently and effectively with each other, customers/clients and other key stakeholders. Mirror Images gives facilitators a professional, progressive and non-judgmental way to discuss the impact of past, current and future acts of discrimination and prejudice.
| Suggested Uses | Recommended Audiences |
• General diversity training: Managers and employees help create and can change organizational culture. People at all levels can build skills to produce needed change for themselves, their peers, and the organization as a whole. • Managerial development: Managers can gain important insights into workplace dynamics and interpersonal communication, helping them to develop and support their teams more productively • Situational response: As a part of a comprehensive response to incidents of workplace disruption, harassment and/or discrimination. |
• Board of Directors • Human Resource Departments • Professionals • Management • Staff • Volunteers |
Federal, State, Local Government and First Responders
Cultural competence is a term used to describe people and organizations that work effectively with their own culture and with cultural groups different from their own. It involves a set of attitudes, practices, behaviors and policies that enable a group to work effectively in multi-ethnic, pluralistic, and linguistically diverse communities. The Mirror Images series seeks to help organizations create an environment that is strengthened and empowered by its diversity. The series also attempts to increase communication, understanding and respect among people of diverse backgrounds and addresses some of the important issues of diversity facing first responders within the workforce and the communities they serve.
| Suggested Uses | Recommended Audiences |
• General Staff Diversity Training: To meet identified needs, provide educational and development opportunities, and ensure that all first responders hold the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide effective services. • Situational Response: As a part of a comprehensive response to incidents of harassment and discrimination. |
• Firefighters • Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT's) • Police Officers' Administrative Staff • Emergency Assistance Operators • Dispatchers • Nurses • Physicians • Volunteers |
Schools, Colleges and Non-Profits
The Mirror Images series seeks to foster safe schools and communities by giving youth, and the adults who guide their development, the tools necessary to talk openly about diversity in all forms. As an educator, Mirror Images gives you a non-judgmental way to discuss the impact of past, current and future acts of discrimination and prejudice. While some topics may be considered sensitive, it is important that the series is shown in its entirety.
| Suggested Uses | Recommended Audiences |
• Staff training: To expand adults' knowledge of diversity so that they may, in turn, enhance students' knowledge about and respect for differences of all kinds. • Situational response: To be included as a part of a school's response to isolated incidents of harassment, violence and/or discrimination. • Diversity curriculum: To raise young people's awareness of inequality and discrimination, teach them practical conflict resolution skills, and empower them to make positive changes in society. |
• School administrators • Campus administrators and staff • School staff • Residential assistants • Teachers • Counselors & social workers • Coaches • Sports teams & clubs • PTA members • Sororities and fraternities • Peer educators • Dormitory residents • Students • Freshmen orientation |
Pricing Information
| Business Type | Price |
Businesses / Corporations |
$749.00 +s/h |
Federal, State, Local Government and First Responders |
$599.00 +s/h |
Schools, Colleges and Non-Profits |
$499.00 +s/h |
There is a $9.95 shipping and handling charge for each series.
