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Race Awareness (AM) SGC - ASC & ICS staff only

Venue
Kingswood Civic Centre, High Street, Kingswood
venue
Event Tutors
Learning and Development
tutors
Admin Contact
Target Audience
Social Care Staff / Staff Working in ICS
target audience
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  • Exploring Language the nuances and connotations associated with some outdated terms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 session

We 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
Times
09:30 - 12:30
Maximum Places
16 
Cost
£0.00 
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No