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?

• What is Cultural Awareness?
• Defining Culture
• How is Cultural Safety different from Cultural Awareness?
• Understand linguistic and cultural diversity profile of CALD children and families in Victoria
• Where to access resources for clients from a CALD background
• Cultural values and attitudes
• Understand how to effectively communicate with culturally diverse communities
• Cross-cultural management skills
• Become familiar with place-based community development approaches, ethnic organisations, examples of positive bridging across cultures
• Understand cultural competency at an organisational level

Learning Outcomes

• Understand linguistic and cultural diversity profile of CALD children and families in Victoria
• Understand how to effectively communicate with culturally diverse communities
• Identify child rearing and parenting norms and differences within and across cultures and laws relevant to parenting in Australia.
• Become familiar with place-based community development approaches, ethnic organisations, examples of positive bridging across cultures
• Understand cultural competency at an organisational level

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