Completing your profile

We’ll walk you through how to complete your Violet profile so your Benchmarks accurately reflect your education and work experience. This guide covers what to include, what to avoid, and how to ensure your profile best represents your expertise.

What type of education should I include?

When adding education to your Violet profile, we recommend that you follow a few guidelines:

Add trainings and educational courses that are specifically related to cultural competence (offer learning about BIPOC, LGBQ, TGNC communities)
- Continue to update your profile as you complete new cultural competence-related education. Any courses completed on the Violet platform will be automatically added.
Prioritize education from the past five years.
Be as explicit as possible by listing full course titles and organization names. This allows us to score your education accurately.
We do not accept entire college, university, masters, and PhD programs. We can only evaluate on an individual course-level in order to understand the specific application to Violet’s three communities.
If adding university courses, please enter the number of credits and not the number of hours (max. 3-4 credits).
Ensure that you are adding education in the education field -- not work experience such as residencies, practicums, internships, etc. These belong in the work experience section.

Examples of education that contribute to your Benchmarks:

Name	Organization	Credits	Communities
Introduction to Cultural Competence	Quantum Units Education	1	All
Why Weight? Improving the health of LGBTQIA+ patients by reducing weight stigma	National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center-The Fenway Institute	1	LGBQ, TGNC
Incorporating Hispanic and Latino Cultural Identity into the Therapeutic Process	NASW-CA	3	BIPOC
Providing Inclusive, Respectful Care to your Gender Questioning, Transgender, & Nonbinary Clients	Clearly Clinical	3	TGNC
Addressing Racism and Bias in the US Healthcare System	National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners	1	BIPOC
Minority Stress and Its Impacts on Mental Health	The University of Maryland School of Social Work	1	BIPOC

What NOT to include:

Name	Organization	Credits	Reason
Masters in Clinical Psychology Masters in Social Work Medical Residency	NYU	150	We do not accept entire college, university, masters, PhD or residency programs. We can only evaluate on a specific course-level in order to understand the specific application to Violet communities and cultural competence.
LGBTQ 101	Suffolk University	10	We accept the number of credits, not hours for college/university courses.
Internship / Practicum	West Virginia University	9	This would be considered a work experience and should be entered into the work experience section instead of education history.
Diversity work training	Group practice	3	This is too vague - we are unable to evaluate any specific learnings related to Violet communities.
Intro to Marriage, Couple, Family Counseling Family Counseling w/Children and Adolescents Sex Therapy	CSU Northridge	3	Does not relate to Violet communities.

What type of work experience should I include?

We recommend that adding any clinical work experience in which you have provided care to the BIPOC, LGBQ, and TGNC communities, including your current position.

Work experiences may include clinical practice, internship, practicums, patient or health coordination, or supervisory roles.

Examples of work experience that contributes to your Benchmarks:

Job title

Organization

Department

Patient panel size

Community %

Therapist

Kaiser Permanente

Mental Health

15% from BIPOC

5% from LGBQ

Nurse Practitioner

Galileo

Family Medicine

25% from BIPOC

15% from LGBQ

3% from TGNC

What NOT to include:

Job title

Organization

Department

Patient panel size

Community %

Reason

Psychotherapist

Private practice

0% from LGBQ

0% from BIPOC

0% from TGNC

If you did not work with any BIPOC, LGBQ, or TGNC patients, it is not necessary to list your experience.

Operations manager

Digital Health Organization

Operations

You do not need to list any business or operations roles in which you did not directly interact with patients.

What further experience should I include?

Further experience includes work and activities that may contribute to the understanding of BIPOC, LGBQ and TGNC communities which may be relevant to health care. From volunteering at community-specific organizations, to serving on boards advancing care for communities, this experience demonstrates dedication to the health and wellbeing of the communities served.

Include:

Volunteering: Community service, mutual aid work.
Advocacy: Policy, grassroots organizing, community engagement.
Teaching: Continuing education courses, college classes, didactics.
Research: Principal investigator, academic research, publications, clinical trials.
Leadership: Board membership, ERG leadership, committees.

What NOT to include:

Clinical work experience.
Lived experience — self, family, or friends.
Traveling or study abroad.