This intensive three-day video driven training supports foster and adoptive parents in reflecting on and improving their cultural competence in parenting as well as interfacing with other individuals from different cultures. Drawing from the premise that individuals as well as agencies must change to meet the diverse and changing needs of children and communities, the training focuses on four cultural groups; African American, Asian/Pacific, Hispanic/Latino and Native American.

目标

  • To identify specific roles and related skills for cultural competence
  • To conduct and reflect upon a cultural competency self assessment
  • 增加对非裔美国人、亚太裔美国人、拉美裔美国人和土著美国人文化群体及其各自家庭价值观和力量的认识和了解
  • To enhance the capacity of participants to work in cross cultural situations with children, other foster and adoptive parents and agency staff
  • To identify strategies for all foster and adoptive parents to support their agency’s cultural competence