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.