Cultural Awareness Training

Cultural Awareness Australia

  • DCAT Disability Cultural Awareness Training
  • ICAT Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training
  • CAT Cultural Awareness Training
  • DAT Deaf Awareness Training 

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.