GetSmarter offers market-led executive education courses with edX, a 2U company that delivers online education from world-leading universities and institutions to transform the lives of thousands of learners across the globe. GetSmarter’s online certificate courses are designed to advance your career and fit in with your busy lifestyle. Each course is expert-led, fully supported, and community-based, helping you build career-critical skills.
Everfi provides online workplace compliance training that drives change, is easy to use, and is backed by compliance expertise. Offerings include DEI, unconscious bias, harassment prevention, leadership, and ethics and compliance. Everfi also offers content related to financial literacy, workplace banking, and health and wellness.
In addition, Everfi engages the K-12 target audiences with free digital lessons and resources. Interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring real-world skills to your classroom. Learn more at https://everfi.com/k-12/.
SAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ older people. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York City, SAGE is a national organization that offers supportive services and consumer resources to LGBTQ+ older people and their caregivers.
SAGECare is a cultural competency training program for agencies providing services to older adults. SAGECare training helps service providers create more LGBTQ+-welcoming environments. Having SAGECare credentials helps LGBTQ+ people find trained providers. Options for foundational and leadership courses are available.
SAGECare provides training for all levels of employees, administrators, and executives. They offer personalized consulting on virtually anything related to LGBTQ+ aging. Schedule a free discovery chat, learn more about credentialing, get a free quote, sign up for their free monthly e-newsletter with care-focused tips and resources, or sign up for their free live webinar series, ReDefining Care. See the Contact link above for details.
Howard Brown Health is one of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) organizations. From pediatrics to geriatrics, Howard Brown provides expert care to the LGBTQ+ community and their allies regardless of their ability to pay.
The agency serves more than 40,000 adults and youth in its diverse health and social service delivery system focused on seven major programmatic divisions: primary medical care, behavioral health, research, HIV/STI prevention, youth services, elder services, and community initiatives. Comprehensive resources and services are available through Howard Brown.
Disability Belongs™, formerly RespectAbility, is a diverse, disability-led nonprofit that works to create systemic change in how society views and values people with disabilities and advance policies and practices that empower people with disabilities to have a better future. Their mission is to fight stigmas and advance opportunities so people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of the community.
Disability Belongs™ is ready to help make your organization welcoming and inclusive of people with physical, sensory, cognitive, mental health, or other disabilities. Partner with them to create a more inclusive world for people with disabilities! Their team can review your policies and procedures, train your team on accessibility, inclusion, and belonging, and help your organization reach a better future where disabled people’s authentic experiences, innovations, and dedication can flourish. They offer Entertainment Media Consulting, connecting the industry to experts with lived disability experience to advise on all things disability inclusion, equity, and access throughout the overall storytelling process.
In addition, Disability Belongs™ offers free resources in these areas and beyond:
Training and consulting
Webinars
Communications, marketing, advertising
Education
Equity and inclusion
Faith inclusion
Inclusive philanthropy
LGBTQ+
Policy makers
Sex education
Forefront provides best-in-class resources, classes, services, and programs for grantmakers, nonprofits, and advisors.
Their webinar library is available to the public. From digital fundraising, Google analytics, human resources, and navigating the current funding landscape, Forefront has the tools to help you do your best work.
Click the website above to explore Forefront’s resources, learn about the upcoming professional development and networking events across Illinois, and connect with the Forefront Library team for individual assistance on philanthropic and nonprofit topics.
Forefront hosts special annual events, for which registration is required and there is a fee for members and non-members.
The United Front Initiative offers paid training programs in the areas of DEI, leadership, and more. See the calendar for upcoming United Front Keynote events: https://unitedfront.my.site.com/UnitedFront/s/.
For most sessions, participants are encouraged to engage with United Front through their employer. For those individuals where this is not possible, you may register for a Role-Specific learning path for $150. Learn more about membership here: https://unitedfront.my.site.com/UnitedFront/s/membership.
HealthCare Interactive, Inc. offers CARES®, an online dementia care training, certification, and professional credentialing. Developed in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Association, CARES provides a series of ten online dementia care training programs. Program topics include person-centered care, the basics of Alzheimer’s and Dementia, understanding behavior as communication, pain and how it impacts care, dementia-related behavior, safety topics, activities of daily living, end-of-life care, elder abuse awareness and prevention, and more. The training is for staff at all levels and provides documentation to meet state and federal training requirements.
SkillPointe helps you explore healthcare careers, find the training you need to get there, and even find a job. As you embark on your next chapter, get healthcare industry news and learn from people who are in the workforce what it’s really like to do the job.
The healthcare industry is projected to add skills-based jobs at an extraordinary pace over the next decade. Are you looking for a rewarding medical job that doesn’t require a four-year degree? SkillPointe can help!
Infinitec’s Online Classroom offers online learning modules for K-12 and social service organizations. The Online Classroom includes DHS-approved online DSP, QIDP, and RBT training curricula, content focused on mandatory training, regulatory compliance, and the GRACE Project on aging with I/DD, with ENGAGE Online Training Administration System and management of private training content.
In addition to online learning, Infinitec membership provides access to a discount purchase program and a lending library of equipment.
Learn more and request a demonstration at the link above.