Building Cultural Humility to Combat Implicit Biases and Micro-Aggressions: Working Towards Anti-racism

This training will be a discussion on better understanding one's own personal values and beliefs and their relationship to cultural identity and practice. The training begins by asking participants to work on understanding their own personal values and beliefs as well as establishing the child welfare professionals’ values and beliefs. Participants will then be provided information on implicit bias and micro-aggressions and how these become present in our work without conscious effort to minimize personal values and beliefs. Finally, this training will incorporate cultural humility as a framework for beginning to consciously work to minimize implicit biases and micro-aggressions. This will help lay the foundation for anti-racist work from an individual perspective.

Date: Friday, February 10, from 8:30 a.m. to noon

Social Work CECHs: 3 hours • Approval #MICEC-0060

Cost: Free to all MDHHS and private agency child welfare workers, Discounts can be applied at checkout. $60 all others