CR X100 - Cultural Responsiveness in Child Welfare
Description
Cultural Responsiveness means increasing the knowledge, understanding, self-awareness, and practice skills that enable a practitioner to serve clients from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds including: understanding culture, its functions, and strengths that exist in varied cultures; understanding clients' cultures and differences among and between cultural groups; understanding the nature of social diversity and oppression; and understanding cultural humility.
Cultural Responsiveness in child welfare requires consistent learning and reflection. These training modules offer workers an opportunity to strengthen interactions with families around avoiding assumptions, respecting and learning from the unique characteristics and strengths of clients, acknowledging and honoring the diversity within and across cultures, and applying these skills to the partnership with a family and the options available to them.
About CASCW
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) develops training in partnership with faculty and staff at the University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work as well as other partners across the University. Substantial funding for the Center continues to come from federal Title IV-E funds and support from the University of Minnesota, the College of Education and Human Development and the School of Social Work. All training modules are free of cost for learners.
Training offerings include the latest practice-relevant, research-based child welfare information in a variety of formats that are accessible, efficient, and easy to use. Trainings consist of self-paced narrated presentations and are designed for child welfare (and child welfare adjacent) professionals, parents, advocates, and others interested in the topics. In addition to the video content, each presentation may contain related documents to explore along with a variety of media components, including video clips, website links, and other audio files.
Please contact us at cascw@umn.edu with any questions.
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS
Training topics are listed on the right side of this page. Click the plus sign next to the cohort you wish to register for and click "add to cart" to continue the registration process.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
CASCW and the School of Social Work are BOSW-approved CE providers. These trainings are approved for CEUS and meet the Minnesota Board of Social Work (BOSW) CEU criteria where one CEU equals one contact hour of training (1:1, 1 clock hour = 60 minutes of learning). All CE activities must promote the standards of practice found in Minnesota Statutes sections 148E.195 to 148E.240, and contribute to the practice of social work as defined in Minnesota Statutes section 148E.010.
For assistance, please contact: dorshelp@umn.edu (technical) or cascw@umn.edu (other).