Tackling the challenges of cultural diversity is integral to effective social work. It requires understanding, sensitivity, and the right skills to connect with families whose backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives differ vastly from ours. That’s why we’ve carefully curated this programme, focusing on cultural humility and ethnographic interviewing. Our goal is to equip you, the practitioners safeguarding children and their families, with the means to navigate these cultural landscapes confidently and competently.
Drawing directly from the experiences of families and caseworkers in the child protection sector, this programme is fine-tuned to address the real-world complexities you face daily. You’ll learn how to discern the right questions to ask, how to ask them, and how to frame effective action plans while respecting cultural nuances.
The stakes are undeniably high, especially when assessing risk in diverse families, and it’s our responsibility to ensure that cultural differences do not hinder our ability to protect vulnerable children.
Target Audience
While initially tailored for social workers, this programme can profoundly benefit all practitioners engaging with children and their families.
Learning Objectives
Our mission is to empower you with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for culturally competent practice. Here’s what you can expect to gain from this one-day programme:
Knowledge
- Unearth the impact of culture on problem identification, support seeking, and service accessibility.
- Understand how cultural nuances influence communication with families and learn to adapt to various communication styles.
- Grasp the concept of ethnography in safeguarding, permanence, welfare, and cultural humility.
- Comprehend the objectives, strategies, and methods of ethnographic interviewing concerning cultural humility.
Skills
- Using real-life safeguarding scenarios, apply ethnographic interviewing techniques to extract culturally specific child safety details from family interactions.
- Formulate pertinent ethnographic interview questions to gather cultural insights and perspectives.
Values
- Develop a commitment to explore personal biases, practise self-correction, and employ in-action reflection.
- Recognise how personal beliefs, values, norms, and worldviews can influence case outcomes for children and families.
- Adopt a culturally responsive approach to engage, assess, and support family relationships, safety concerns, and child welfare.
- Foster collaborative relationships with families using culturally responsive strategies to engage and problem-solve.
Join us on this enriching journey of cultural exploration and professional growth. Make a real difference in the lives of the children and families you work with, and enhance your practice by embracing the principles of cultural humility and ethnographic interviewing. We highly recommend our face-to-face training for an engaging and immersive learning experience.
