course »Culturally Responsive Relationships for Providers & Clinical Assessments and Care

Date: 1/18/2023, 8:30 am—4:30 pm
County: -Training Offerings
Location: DISTANCE LEARNING
Sponsor: East Bay Agency for Children
Phone: 510-844-5370, Ext. 4135
First Half of the Day: This training will offer practical information to help participants better provide culturally responsive support to system impacted youth and families. 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 providers can introduce conversations about culture with system impacted youth and families will be introduced. There will also be review of child-friendly developmentally appropriate ways to invite cultural conversations with children. Participants should expect to leave with tools for integrating diversity-informed practice into the flow of their everyday work with the youth that they serve. Second Half of the Day: In striving to provide culturally inclusive services, it is crucial that service providers be willing to examine the cultural lenses through which they view the world. The goal of this workshop is to provide participants with an experiential and safe environment in which to develop the foundation needed to provide culturally inclusive services to the diverse clients that they serve. This will be done through introducing participants to a culturally inclusive model designed to visually expand the way that one views themselves, others, and the systems in which they work. Multiple modalities will be used to teach this workshop including lecture, experiential exercises, and small group work.