This training has been designed to assist Victorian refuge staff to better support migrant and refugee women, particularly women on temporary visas. The morning training session is on culturally responsive practice and in the afternoon, participants will have the opportunity to visit the Good Samaritan Inn refuge and Virginia' Place supported accommodation.
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Description
The training explores the principles of culturally responsive practice, cultural humility, unconscious bias, and intersectionality and how to apply this to practice. The day will consist of a 3-hour training session from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, followed by a lunch break. Then participants will be given the opportunity to visit the Good Samaritan Inn (GSI) refuge and Virginia’s Place supported accommodation and have a discussion with GSI and Safe Steps staff, finishing around 4:00 pm.
On completion of the training participants will have:
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Reflected on their own professional practice using culturally responsive principles, cultural humility and an intersectional approach.
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Discussed how cultural expectations, systemic barriers and discrimination may impact a migrant or refugee woman’s capacity to seek and sustain family violence service support.
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Applied the principles of culturally responsive practices when engaging with clients/families from migrant and refugee backgrounds experiencing multiple systemic barriers and discrimination.