Foster Care Training

Social Identity is a key player in how we live. How we inhabit our bodies and how we demonstrate our own expressions of gender, race/ethnicity, culture, and so many other aspects is emboldened or repressed depending on how we feel power, trust, and safety. The intersectionality of historically oppressed identities creates compounded and complex lessons and understandings as well as felt experiences that shape how we move through the world and what we believe is true about us and others. This course is a thorough exploration of the process of internalization starting from the self. It is designed to provide participants opportunities to share space with others who are curious about the ways we have been socialized to follow binary and fixed rules. With an interactive, workshop-style flow, we will weave together independent reflection, small groups breakout space, and full group dialogue. Attendees will be offered tools and practices to support a deeper understanding of the impacts of internalized oppression, domination, and subordination with clients and colleagues who are engaged in or impacted by the child welfare system.