Jane provides training, trainer development, curriculum development, program development, organizational development, educational empowerment, evaluation and quality improvement. Her most recent interest is the intersection of the concepts of sexuality and honesty and her work in SPEAKING ABOUT SEX, HONESTLY is the latest in her long career of caring deeply about voicing progressive values in difficult issues.
FOCUS OF MY WORK
Organizations I work with come in all sizes but with one common theme – they all want to make changes. They are communities, nonprofits, unions, universities, religious institutions, schools, public and private agencies. Over the past 25 years, I have worked on:
- Environmental Health
- Job stress
- Multiculturalism
- Racism
- Labor Relations
- Juvenile Justice
- Sexual Honesty
My interests are in the places where people and concerns intersect around social justice issues.
HOW I WORK
I work on issues of concern through:
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Organizing and Organizational Development — I have been a key player in a:
- Clerical worker organization and union drive
- Statewide occupational health and safety organization
- Multicultural education for action organization
- Labor-management collaborative
- Statewide LGBT human services organization
- Nationally-recognized conference for juvenile justice professionals across a state
delivering practice changes to social workers, probation and parole officers with a wraparound approach to handling cases with adolescents and their families view website>>
- Program Development — I have:
- Established child care centers at state hospitals,
- Established nursing programs for public employees,
- Created safety programs which saved lives and money,
- Developed ergonomic enhancements in offices,
- Coordinated professional development for human service workers
- Developed consensus among disparate and dis-harmonious stakeholders in juvenile justice
- Educational Empowerment — For more than 25 years, I have:
- Researched and conducted participatory education training view website>>
- Championed “popular education” view website>>
- Created system-wide educational opportunities for empowerment for adult and juvenile mental health workers
- Developed a series of “Talking About Sex” workshops for LGBT teens, parents, PTO’s, clinicians
- Trainer Development — I have:
- Coordinated work with a consortium to develop high quality trainer knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes through individual observation, coaching, mentoring, and training
- Developed annual trainer development workshops for health and safety trainers throughout New England
- Feedback and Evaluation — I have:
- Developed in-depth evaluation tools for trainers to enhance their skills
- Created participatory evaluation methods from empowerment evaluation; view website>>
- Quality Improvement — I have:
- Developed policy training and research initiatives in juvenile justice
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