Race Awareness (AM) SGC - ASC & ICS staff only
Venue
Kingswood Civic Centre, High Street, Kingswood
Target Audience
Social Care Staff / Staff Working in ICS
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adult Social Care / Children and Young People / Equality and Diversity
Adult Social Care subcategories
General Adult Social Care
Children and Young People subcategories
Children's Social Care
Equality and Diversity subcategories
Equality and Diversity
Event description
- Increase understanding around race, racism and systemic racism as well as how it manifests in relation to social care specifically
- Exploring disparities from statistics that have been caused by systemic racism specific to social care and other core English institutions
- Understanding our own unconscious bias and social conditioning to help us better challenge ourselves, our thoughts and our beliefs
- A deep dive into white privilege, power & advantage
- Cultural awareness and how being aware of cultural norms can help us be more culturally competent when supporting people
- Learning what microaggression are and what we can do to mitigate against them and how to support somebody who has experienced a microaggression
- Exploring Language the nuances and connotations associated with some outdated terms
- How to be an anti-racism ally and what this means as an individual, team and organisation
Please see attached pre-coursework details which must be completed prior to the training sessionWe want to make sure everyone feels comfortable attending this session. We can offer a separate session for staff who may find the nature and content of this training session triggering.If you would like to attend this separate session, please contact Joanne Worthington joanne.worthington@southglos.gov.uk. All staff will be offered support where needed by the trainer and the organisation
Learning outcomes
- Understanding of what racism is and how it can present & manifest in social care
- Increased awareness of our own privileged, advantage & power and how we can utilise this
- Understand how to reduce aspects of interpersonal racism from happening on the ground between people, particularly microaggressions
- Increased understanding of what an anti-racism ally is and what actions you can take individually and within the organisation to support race equity
Start Date
Wednesday 7 June 2023
End Date
Wednesday 7 June 2023
Closing Date
Tuesday 6 June 2023