Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Tasks

Wellness check matrix

• Monitor the number of times we (staff, community) request wellness checks and require Community Living staff entry into a student's residence.

• Educate students that a wellness check indicates that the concern for their health and well-being is emergent.

Team outreach

• Care Team members work intentionally to ensure that students are not contacted for a current wellness concern by multiple individuals.

Criteria

• Evaluation to determine results; satisfaction of those results; tweak process as needed.

Tasks

• Semester data collection.

• Squarely address and engage around reported or perceived concerns of bias that involve Care Team cases.

• Ensure the work of the Care Team and the profile of its staff is representative of the diverse makeup of the Brandeis community.

Criteria

• Collect necessary data regarding the number of BIPOC students we are serving per semester. What is the scope? Are there trends? Are additional services needed to best serve Brandeis students?

• Determine where bias may occur (even unintentional) and mitigate that bias. Create opportunities to educate ourselves on matters of bias, racism, sexism, micro-aggressions, etc. as it relates to behavioral intervention work.

• Encourages buy-in from the Brandeis community so that we can comprehensively serve the members of our community.

Tasks

• Present at both regional and national conferences on topics relating to diversity, equity and inclusion as it relates to Behavioral Intervention Team and Care Team work .

Criteria

• Benchmarking.

• Institutional connections.

• Gaining and sharing new ideas.