Disability Cultural Awareness Training (DCAT) (in Partnership with Deaf Indigenous Community Consultancy)

Other Cultural Awareness Programs Available

1. DCAT Disability Cultural Awareness Training (in Partnership with Deaf Indigenous Community Consultancy)
2. ICAT Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training
3. CAT Cultural Awareness Training
4. DAT Deaf Awareness Training 

To provide community service organisation staff who work with cultural people with disabilities and appropriate cultural awareness training by doing the HOW … to understand cultural appreciation. Training can be non-specific or tailored to be specific IE Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders.

What does the Disability Cultural Awareness Training Program Cover?

  • What is Disability Cultural Awareness?
  • Defining Culture
  • How is Disability Cultural Safety different from Cultural Awareness?
  • Apply the observations of Disability Cultural Safety and Person Centred Care in the context of working with people with disabilities from cultured families.
  • Describe changes associated with disabilities in a person in terms of their sense of self, cognitive abilities, emotional states, identity, sexuality, behaviour and ability to look after themselves and others
  • Describe the differences between disability and other conditions such as trauma, racism and depression that may have similar signs and symptoms.
  • Use of appropriate communication strategies to assist in working with cultured families
  • Using interpreters with a client – when is it the right time to use these
  • Discuss a plan for the long-term management of the person with disability in their community.
  • Cross-cultural management skills
  • Become familiar with place-based community development approaches, ethnic organisations, examples of positive bridging across cultures.
  • Source and utilise up-to-date resources in the management of people from cultured families.

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply the concepts of Disability Cultural Safety and Person Centred Care in the context of working with people with disabilities from cultured families.
  • Describe changes associated with disabilities in a person in terms of their sense of self, cognitive abilities, emotional states, identity, sexuality, behaviour and ability to look after themselves and other
  • Understand the differences between disability and other conditions such as trauma, racism and depression that may have similar signs and symptoms.
  • Use appropriate communication strategies to assist in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in communities or CALD families.
  • Discuss a plan for the long-term management of the person with disability in their community.
  • Source and utilise up-to-date resources in the management of people with disabilities.

Training is offered as a 1 day Introductory course or as a 2 day intensive course with 2 facilitators.




























Purpose: To provide Community Service Organisation staff who work with vulnerable family’s appropriate Cultural Awareness training by doing the HOW … to understand cultural differences. Training can be non specific or tailored to a specific cultural group IE Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders.

What does the Cultural Awareness Training Program Cover?