Build Your Own Compass (BYOC)
BYOC
Build Your Own Compass: Fostering Skills to Navigate and Negotiate Public Health or Primary Care Training Programs and Professions as a Young Person of Color
BYOC is a FREE leadership opportunity for young professionals of color, ages 18-25, who are underrepresented in health and public health professions.
The program is focused on retaining and investing in the success and leadership skills of young people of color interested in and currently navigating public health and primary care training programs and professions.
Program starts February 11, 2025.
Investing in the Success and Leadership Skills of Young People of Color
The overarching goals of BYOC is retention and investing in the success and leadership skills of young people of color interested in and currently navigating public health and primary care training programs and professions.
BYOC is a leadership opportunity for young professionals of color, ages 18-25, who are underrepresented in health and public health professions (i.e., African American (or Black), American Indian and Alaska Native, Hispanic (or Latine), Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander). The objectives of BYOC are to:
- Increase awareness of power structures and systems of dominant culture,
- Amplify existing cultural and inherent self-leadership strengths per individual to more effectively navigate power structures and systems of dominant culture,
- Foster the development of leadership skills necessary to negotiate and thrive in dominant culture in public health and primary care training programs and organizations, and
- Provide coaching support to enrich knowledge and skills gained in learning opportunity sessions.
Registration closes in…
Participants must be available to attend all 8 sessions.
LOCATION: Online via Zoom.
TIME: All sessions will be 1.5 hours from 6:30 – 8:00 PM (MT)
Schedule:
| SESSION/CONTENT | DATE |
|---|---|
Session 1:
| February 11, 2025 |
Session 2
| February 2, 2025 |
Session 3
| March 11,2025 |
Session 4
| March 25, 2025 |
Session 5
| April 8, 2025 |
Session 6
| April 22, 2025 |
Session 7
| May 13, 2025 |
Session 8
| May 27, 2025 |
- 16 sessions on leadership skills and tools to successfully navigate public health and health systems as a young health and public health professionals or student of color
- Up to 5 hours of coaching
- Identify and connect with a mentor or mentors in your career of interest
- Opportunity to network with other young health and public health professionals and students of color
- Assignments between sessions include a self-leadership profile assessment to identify and leverage your leadership strengths.
- Must be between the ages of 18-25
- Currently a student or a professional in the fields of primary care or public health.
- Identify as African American (or Black), American Indian and Alaska Native, Hispanic (or Latino), and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.
- Reside in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, or New Mexico.
- Participants must commit the time required to attend and engage in sessions and complete assignments.
- Participants must have access to Zoom and a working camera. The program cannot assume any costs for computers or communication systems used by the participant.
- All participants must consent and commit to the BYOC Policies and Agreements.
The program sessions will incorporate the following modules and topics.
Navigation
The focus of this module is awareness and education of the pervasiveness of dominant culture in public health and primary care training programs and professions to prepare young people of color for the systems in which they are or will likely navigate. Additionally, this module will encourage young people of color to leverage their inherent cultural and self-leadership strengths to navigate dominant culture engrained in public health and primary care training programs and professions.
Two key topics will be covered in this module.
1. Power—objectives:
- To increase awareness of dominant culture (i.e., a culture benefiting those with power and privilege) within public health and primary care training programs and organizations.
- To increase awareness, hone, and leverage inherent self-leadership assets and strengths as a form of power to successfully navigate public health and primary care training programs and organizations. Participants will complete the Axiogenics VQ Profile Assessment to become aware of their scientifically validated thinking biases and assets.
2. Culture—objective:
- To increase awareness, amplify, and leverage existing cultural and personal values of the community in which the participants identify to successfully navigate public health and primary care training programs and professions
Negotiation and Thriving
The focus of this module is to foster leadership skills necessary to negotiate learning and professional environments necessary to thrive within public health and primary care training programs and organizations. Three key topics will be covered in this module.
1. Systems Thinking – objectives:
- To increase awareness of systems thinking as an approach to further understand the events, patterns/trends, underlying structures, and mental models of those with the power to uphold, often unintentionally, dominant culture within public health training programs and organizations.
- To increase awareness of the Cycle of Liberation as a process to unsettle dominant culture within public health training programs and organizations. The Cycle of Liberation is a cyclical process that occurs in most social change efforts that can lead to some degree of liberation from the dominant culture and other forms of oppression.
2. Effective Communication – objective:
- To increase skills to give and receive feedback despite social and professional positionality. Participants will receive tools to support persuasive and effective communication, with an overarching emphasis on empowerment.
3. Rest and Work Life Balance – objectives:
- To provide skills to rest, reboot, and resist the concept of a machine level pace of productivity as the cornerstone of success.
- To increase awareness of the importance of rest and rebooting as essential to innovation and effectively showing up at work and for friends and family.
This program is free.
Prepare to register! Download the Registration Form Guidance before clicking the registration button below.
Registration closes January 31, 2025.
Other questions?
Please contact Nicole Tuitt, BYOC Program Co-Director using the form at the bottom of this page.
The BYOC Team
Nicole Tuitt, DrPH, MPH
Jordan White, PCC
BYOC Co-Director
Self-Leadership Coach, Jordan White Coaching
Leanne Jeffers, MPH, PCC
Director of Training and Coaching Services, Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership
BYOC Coaching Team
Coaches will be recruited from a qualified pool of professionals with experience in justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, including members of the Colorado Chapter of the International Coaching Federation.
Questions Regarding BYOC or the registration process?
Please contact Nicole Tuitt, BYOC Program Co-Director,
through the form below.
