Foster Care Training

Online Training

While there are overt expressions of white supremacy, it is important to unpack how white supremacy culture operates in covert ways as well within systems, organizations and ourselves (white people and people of color). White supremacy is the foundation of the systems and structures upon which the United States was built and continues to be upheld. What is white supremacy culture, and how can we undo or do things differently personally, interpersonally, institutionally and culturally?

This workshop will bring attention to how white supremacy culture shows up in our behaviors, our organizations and in the child welfare system, influencing our work with system-involved children, youth and families. We will acknowledge the pervasiveness of white supremacy culture, and how it can influence communities and organizations whether it is white-lead, or BIPOC lead. Similarly, understanding the internalization of oppression, dominant and subordinate, is key to our interrupting dynamics outside of our awareness. We will unpack the ways childhood socialization helped us internalize the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors about the dominant culture and our relationship to it. And in our adult lives, how we respond to racial stress and related conflict. We will also examine how accessing feelings frees our minds from the internal messages that perpetuate these dynamics. Participants will come away with tools and practices for engaging in courageous conversations across differences.