Foster Care Training

This ongoing workshop is designed to provide participants with both foundational tools for exploring conversations around cultural identity and privilege, as well as provide experiential opportunities and conversation to deepen an understanding of cultural identity and how this impacts services and systems for foster youth. This group will be meeting in support of becoming stronger culturally responsive professionals that aligns with overall efforts to participate in anti-racism work and serve marginalized youth. Participants will be provided space to explore cultural lenses and instances of privilege, but also the power inherent in this identity and the impact it has interpersonally and professionally through various tasks of the privileged (from Kenneth V. Hardy PhD’s framework). Within this context, participants will focus on learning and practicing inquiry that will support deepening an understanding of racial privilege, as well as garner a greater fluency of how to talk about race and manage affect during cross-racial dialogue. Participants will also be educated around the impact of white supremacy and ways in which they can become more attuned to the impacts and intersectionality of privilege and oppression.