The Task Force offers diversity training workshops for the community. These workshops are designed to increase the awareness of oppression and privilege and acceptance of diversity and inclusion especially as related to race and gender. In addition to creating networks among citizens, they initiate action plans to facilitate community change, and foster a climate that encourages a comfortable and safe environment for all community members. Gives students change of pace while enhancing knowledge and helping to form community. The trainers, a subgroup of the Task Force, meet monthly to continue the development of their roles as trainers for the community and region, and to plan training programs.
Sessions range in length from one hour to a half or whole day.
Participants have described the workshops as substantive, educational, non-threatening and interactive. Funded by the Town of Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg University and the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, this program was conducted by experienced, nationally recognized experts on diversity. Since then, four other individuals, similarly trained elsewhere, have joined the trainers' team.