Foster Care Training

This training will offer practical information to help leaders support culturally responsive services to system impacted youth and families and model culturally responsive relationships in their leadership. This course will review the concept of cultural humility, originally developed by Doctors Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia (1998) to address health disparities and institutional inequities in medicine. The facilitator will also explore the concept of intersectionality, coined by American Civil Rights Advocate and Professor Kimberly Krenshaw. Specific ways that leaders can introduce conversations about culture with providers that are working with system impacted youth and families will be introduced. The dynamics of power and positionality and how to address this in the supervisory relationship will be explored as well.