​Cultural
Competency

Course Content

• Develop an understanding of the values and principles that underpin cultural competency

• Enhance communication: increase capability to facilitate safe space conversations with individuals from racialised minoritised communities, and become comfortable discussing people’s ethnicity and experiences of race and discrimination

• Reflect on and embed anti-discriminatory practice and anti-racist approaches in the work environment

• Improve reports and assessments: de-bias decision making and ensuring assessments and reports capture diversity factors and individual’s lived experience of discrimination and disadvantage

• Advance interventions: addressing overt racism like hate crimes and working directly with those convicted of racially motivated offences

• Demonstrate behaviours, attitudes, policies, and structures that enable professionals to work effectively cross-culturally

• Increase proficiency to provide culturally competent services to individuals from diverse communities