One Love Symposium:
Our Mission
1. To create a professional learning certificate called the Human Services Professional, a highly accessible, co-created, co-produced professional learning curriculum intended to certify high quality performance at the Point of Service
The Human Services Professional has four key components:
Best Practices of Problem-Prone Professions
Community-Sourced Knowledge
Ethics-Values
Regional Awareness (Place-based education)
2. For the One Love Symposium Youth Data Collectors to lead an effort to collect Community-Sourced Knowledge
Including interviews, surveys, and focus groups in support of the Human Services Professional certification
3. To Produce the One Love Symposium’s Anthology of Universal Human Values
A diverse collection of original work based on the project premise that there is a set of universal human values that should inform our choices and behavior and if we let those guide us we can improve our treatment of one another. These values and other ethical considerations will be an important component of the Human Services Professional Certification.
Key Learnings from Problem-Prone Professions
Increasing institutional awareness around poor performance at the point of service (often resulting in inequitable distribution of resources, rewards, or punishments) has fostered an investment in targeted professional learning within many fields. Among these, healthcare, education and law enforcement have invested heavily.
We want to learn what these professions have done to develop curiosity and empathy and use this to inform the Human Services Professional certification.
Targeted Professional Learning
We have learned how to help people get better at interpreting human behavior, intentions, and circumstances. We can support public service work by making this knowledge accessible to a much wider variety of worker. Improving these “point of service” skills and making this knowledge much more accessible will result in more equitable treatment by many more public service workers. This is a positive and supportive path to equity. It won’t replace other trainings but it will support professional learning around job skills needed in every human interaction. This is a clear path to more equitable treatment for all.