Housing First University
Friday, August 2nd, 9am-4pm
In-Person Training
Community Partners Center
2506 North Broad Street
Colmar, PA 18915
Culturally Responsive Services: From Competence to Humility
Many service providers have been taught the value of cultural competence in working with diverse populations. Indeed, cross-cultural clinical work is a frequent occurrence when serving communities of people with marginalized identities. This training presents the concept of cultural humility as supplemental to the work of cultural competence. Presenters will offer strategies to move beyond the idea that we can ever truly become competent in another person’s culture, and explore opportunities to affirm and support our clients. Through use of case studies, we will review concepts of intersectionality and micro-aggressions for a fuller understanding of the ways culture shows up in service provision, and offer tools for a humbler cultural practice.
Learning Objectives
Define the need to implement culturally responsive services
Define cultural humility and compare and contrast with cultural competence
Identify at least 3 ways to adjust current practice to align with a cultural humility framework
Understanding Racial Disparities in Homelessness
In recent years, the United States has begun to place greater emphasis on racial equity as a key component to ending homelessness. For decades, racial and ethnic minorities, especially Black and Indigenous persons, have experienced homelessness at much higher rates than their white counterparts. This disproportionate burden has a long history rooted in racialized policies that continue to affect people experiencing homelessness today. In this training, we will explore this history while examining the structural and individual factors driving the racialization of homelessness. Presenters will identify ways that our current service delivery system reinforces racial disparities, placing an emphasis on the need to move toward equity, rather than equality, in the homeless services system.
Learning objectives
Summarize the current state of homelessness through the lens of race and ethnicity at a national and local level
Explain key structural and individual factors that disproportionately impact racial minorities experiencing homelessness
Identify at least one way that current service delivery systems reproduce and reinforce racial disparities
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