Foster Care Training

Online Training

This course is the follow-up session for the March 30th course. These shorter 2-hour follow-up sessions are for intentional practice in implementing concepts and questions participants are encouraged to explore. The section will explore our social groupings (historically included and excluded identities), Intersectionality, Overt and Covert White Supremacy, Feelings and Emotional Literacy. PLEASE REGISTER FOR AND ATTEND ALL SECTIONS OF THIS SERIES.

“Anti-racism is a journey not a destination” – Ibram X. Kendi
Exploring anti-racism as a process and practice is a journey through understanding our personal experiences throughout our lives and the institutions we work within. By starting with ourselves as individuals, we can take intentional steps to identify experiences and systems that impact our role in dismantling racism. By examining white supremacy as the root of racist structures and practices, we can push this discourse even further, challenging the way we have been socialized and professionalized to maintain the status quo. For some practitioners, talking about race is a regular part of daily life and family discussions growing up. As a matter of survival, it’s never been an option not to. For others, it can be challenging to talk about it, or to know how to, and thus is often avoided or considered taboo, particularly in professional spaces.

Wherever you are on this journey, this workshop will allow space for learning, personal sharing, processing and making practical application directly to your personal and professional lives. There will be opportunities to start from a culturally humble place of self-reflection and understanding of one’s own social location and how to talk about it, instead of avoiding it. Providers will gain practical approaches about how to engage with colleagues and institutions they work within, how to engage more openly about the topic of race and racism and how it impacts the families and communities they serve. Through the use of multi-media focused on recent events in the Bay Area surrounding racial inequity, participants will be able to relate content to their daily lives in the world.

There will be a debrief session between each workshop where participants will be encouraged to bring a question, a real-life scenario or challenge from their personal or work life to begin to apply the concepts and tools.