BH004A Cultural Humility Training for Professionals and Resource Parents 6 CEUs TIVE27-202640

KNOWLEDGE: The professional will recognize how a foster youth's cultural background and placement experiences may influence their behavior, trust in systems, and engagement with services. • SKILL: Using their professional context, the professional will develop culturally responsive approaches to build rapport with foster youth from diverse backgrounds while respecting their unique lived experiences. • VALUES: The professional will examine how their own professional culture, institutional norms, and personal beliefs may create barriers for foster youth, and will commit to adapting their practice to be more culturally accessible and responsive. These objectives focus on helping allied professionals understand the unique cultural considerations when working with foster youth, develop practical engagement skills that honor cultural diversity, and recognize how professional systems themselves may need adaptation to better serve these young people. Resource Parents who attend the Cultural Humility Training will have the following learning objectives • KNOWLEDGE: The foster parent will identify how culture influences a child's sense of identity, expression of needs, and adjustment to placement. • SKILL: Using real-life situations, the foster parent will demonstrate how to ask respectful questions that honor the child's cultural background and family traditions. • VALUES: The foster parent will recognize how their own cultural beliefs, values, and parenting practices may differ from those of the child's family of origin, and develop strategies to bridge these differences. These objectives focus specifically on the foster parent's role in supporting a child's cultural identity, developing communication skills that respect cultural differences, and navigating potential cultural gaps between homes.