Enabling Inclusive Workplace Environments
Filsan Talent Partners is a Diversity and Inclusion Consulting firm. Our focus is on delivering diversity, equity, and inclusion training, as well as facilitating the recruiting of diverse candidates, thus increasing the talent pool within organizations throughout Greater Minnesota.
Educators
Helping students of color succeed in school
Training, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
This training informs educators of the historical impact war trauma has on Minnesota’s refugee population, explores the contrasting conceptions of mental health/illness in Somali and Western cultures, reveals the impact of culture and religion on understanding and dealing with mental illness, exposes the unique barriers East African populations face when attempting to access mental health solutions, and gives solutions for the design of more effective school-based mental health programs for refugee youth.
Informs educators of the causes, characteristics, and challenges of/for this at-risk population.
Provides educators with the skills and knowledge of programs and services essential in successful instruction of SLIFE students.
Informs teachers and school administrators of the basics of unconscious bias, and its pervasiveness in the classroom and U.S school system
Illustrates unconscious bias’s effects on minority academic achievement and its impact on belonging, and
Provides research-backed tools and systems of accountability to mitigate unconscious bias, both in the classroom and at policy level.
Informs educators about the importance of cultural competence and how it can enhance academic achievement and belonging for students of color
Exposes challenges of culturally competent teaching and how to overcome them, and
Reveals the best research-backed culturally-responsive teaching techniques and practices for the diverse classroom.
Consulting
Administrators, teachers, community leaders
Research for educators
Somali Language Curriculum Development
This program is designed specifically for native speakers of the Somali language who have oral proficiency
Provides students with a strong foundational basis for the development of BOTH native and second language skills. Students experience opportunities to develop, maintain, and enhance a more formal command of the Somali language through a variety of contexts (oral, reading, writing, etc.).
This curriculum covers levels 1-5 and links classroom experiences to cultural and community life, imparts the value of bi-lingual capabilities and diverse identities, and contributes to closing the opportunity and achievement gap.
