Colleen Webb, LCSW, LICSW and Qur-an Webb
Monday, June 22
Virtual
10 am – 12 pm (ET)
2 CECs, including cultural competency
Registration Fee: $50
10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Practicum Instructors
Webinar link will be included in your confirmation email.
This training focuses on the practice areas of cultural competence, race, and ethnicity by looking at the lived experiences of mixed-race individuals and the judgments they often encounter. The session will explore common assumptions, stereotypes, and racial misidentification and pressures to “choose a side” and how these experiences affect identity development and mental health.
Participants will be able to reflect on how language, documentation practices, and personal bias can unintentionally invalidate a client’s self-defined racial identity. Also addressed will be accepting how individuals identify themselves without judgment and centering their lived experience of pain, confusion, resilience, and strength. Practical tools, advocacy and culturally responsive strategies for participants to implement will be discussed and explored.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and critically look at common assumptions, stereotypes, and microaggressions directed toward mixed-race individuals, and explain their impact on identity development and mental health.
- Demonstrate culturally responsive communication skills by applying strategies that affirm client self-identification, use inclusive language, and avoid racial misclassification in clinical, school, and community practice settings.
- Develop actionable strategies to challenge and transform agency policies, documentation practices, and service delivery models that reinforce racial binaries or invalidate multiracial identities.