1. TRAINING CURRICULUM What does cultural competency mean and why should I care?
Sujata Warrier, Ph.D.
For
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence / APIA Health Forum
January 2007
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

2. 15 minute version TRAINING CURRICULUM Cultural Competency
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence / APIA Health Forum January 2007
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

3. Cultural Identity Exercise
What is your cultural identity?
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

4. Definition Of Culture
A critical definition of culture refers to shared experiences or commonalities that have developed and continue to evolve in relation to changing social and political contexts, based on:
race
ethnicity
national origin
sexuality
gender
religion
age
class
disability status
immigration status
education
geographic location (space)
rural, urban
time, or
other axes of identification
within the historical context of oppression
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

5. So, what does this mean?
In what ways does this understanding of culture affect our work?
Who are you?
Who is she?
How do you see her as she sees you?
What is the context of your work and the principles that guide it?
How do all these come together?
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

6. 30 minute version TRAINING CURRICULUM Cultural Competency
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence / APIA Health Forum January 2007
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

7. What does cultural competency mean and why should I care?
Sujata Warrier, Ph.D.
For
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
APIA Health Forum
January 2007
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

8. Cultural Identity Exercise
What is your cultural identity?
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

9. Definition Of Culture
A critical definition of culture refers to shared experiences or commonalities that have developed and continue to evolve in relation to changing social and political contexts, based on:
race
ethnicity
national origin
sexuality
gender
religion
age
class
disability status
immigration status
education
geographic location (space)
rural, urban
time, or
other axes of identification
within the historical context of oppression
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

10. Why Should We Consider Culture?
Culture shapes an individual’s experience of domestic violence.
Culture shapes the batterer’s response to intervention and acceptance of responsibility.
Culture shapes access to other services that might be crucial for the victim.
The culture of the system and the victim will impact outcome.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

11. So, what does this mean?
In what ways does this understanding of culture affect our work?
Who are you?
Who is she?
How do you see her as she sees you
What is the context of your work and the principles that guide it?
How do all these come together?
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

12. Working Assumptions CULTURALLY COMPETENT ASSUMPTIONS:
All cultures are contradictory - values can be both oppressive and nurturing at the same time.
Each victim is not only a member of her/his community, but a unique individual with their own responses. The complexity of a person’s response is shaped by multiple factors.
Each individual comes into any encounter with cultural experiences and perspectives that might differ from those present in the system.
All institutions have to develop specific policies and procedures to systematically build cultural competence.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

13. 45 minute version TRAINING CURRICULUM Cultural Competency
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence / APIA Health Forum January 2007
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

14. What does cultural competency mean and why should I care?
Sujata Warrier, Ph.D.
For
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
APIA Health Forum
January 2007
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

15. Goals Of This Session
To define the terms culture and cultural competence and respect the dynamics of difference.
To identify ways in which culture is relevant.
To recognize cultural misinformation and avoid assumptions about a person or the facts of a situation based on misinformation.
To identify personal biases that are brought to any encounter that might influence the interpretation of facts and making of decisions in domestic violence cases.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

16. Cultural Identity Exercise
What is your cultural identity?
How does your identity enhance, limit, affect your work?
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

17. What Is Culture?
Historically and anthropologically thought to be a stable pattern of beliefs, values, thoughts, norms etc. that are transmitted from generation to generation for successfully adapting to other group members and their environment.
The problem is that this is an outdated definition.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

18. Definition Of Culture
A critical definition of culture refers to shared experiences or commonalities that have developed and continue to evolve in relation to changing social and political contexts, based on:
race
ethnicity
national origin
sexuality
gender
religion
age
class
disability status
immigration status
education
geographic location (space)
rural, urban
time, or
other axes of identification
within the historical context of oppression
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

19. Intersectionality
People live multiple & layered lives derived from social relations, history, and the operation of structures of power.
Expose all types of discrimination that occur as a consequence of the combination.
No slotting people, no single form of discrimination – exposes full range of vulnerabilities as it links all structures of oppressions.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

20. So, what does this mean?
In what ways does this understanding of culture affect our work?
Who are you?
Who is she?
How do you see her as she sees you
What is the context of your work and the principles that guide it?
How do all these come together?
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

21. Cultural Competence Is..
About both individual and institutional practice.
Characterized by the acceptance of and respect for difference.
About continuous self-assessments regarding culture with special attention to and respect for the dynamics of difference.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

22. Working Assumptions CULTURALLY COMPETENT ASSUMPTIONS:
All cultures are contradictory in that there is both widespread acceptance of domestic violence as part of society as well as traditions of resistance.
Each victim is not only a member of her/his community, but a unique individual with their own responses. The complexity of a person’s response to domestic violence is shaped by multiple factors.
Each individual comes into a courtroom encounter with cultural experiences and perspectives that might differ from those present in the courtroom.
All institutions have to develop specific policies and procedures to systematically build cultural competence.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

23. 60 minute version TRAINING CURRICULUM Cultural Competency
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence / APIA Health Forum January 2007
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

24. What does cultural competency mean and why should I care?
Sujata Warrier, Ph.D.
For
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence
APIA Health Forum
January 2007
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

25. Goals Of This Session
To define the terms culture and cultural competence and respect the dynamics of difference.
To identify ways in which culture is relevant.
To recognize cultural misinformation and avoid assumptions about a person or the facts of a situation based on misinformation.
To identify personal biases that are brought to any encounter that might influence the interpretation of facts and making of decisions in domestic violence cases.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

26. Cultural Identity Exercise
What is your cultural identity?
How does your identity enhance, limit, affect your work?
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

27. What Is Culture?
Historically and anthropologically thought to be a stable pattern of beliefs, values, thoughts, norms etc. that are transmitted from generation to generation for successfully adapting to other group members and their environment.
The problem is that this is an outdated definition.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

28. Definition Of Culture
A critical definition of culture refers to shared experiences or commonalities that have developed and continue to evolve in relation to changing social and political contexts, based on:
race
ethnicity
national origin
sexuality
gender
religion
age
class
disability status
immigration status
education
geographic location (space)
rural, urban
time, or
other axes of identification
within the historical context of oppression
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

29. Intersectionality
People live multiple & layered lives derived from social relations, history, and the operation of structures of power.
Expose all types of discrimination that occur as a consequence of the combination.
No slotting people, no single form of discrimination – exposes full range of vulnerabilities as it links all structures of oppressions.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

30. So, what does this mean?
In what ways does this understanding of culture affect our work?
Who are you?
Who is she?
How do you see her as she sees you
What is the context of your work and the principles that guide it?
How do all these come together?
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

31. Cultural Competence Is..
About both individual and institutional practice.
Characterized by the acceptance of and respect for difference.
About continuous self-assessments regarding culture with special attention to and respect for the dynamics of difference.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF

32. Working Assumptions CULTURALLY COMPETENT ASSUMPTIONS:
All cultures are contradictory in that there is both widespread acceptance of domestic violence as part of society as well as traditions of resistance.
Each victim is not only a member of her/his community, but a unique individual with their own responses. The complexity of a person’s response to domestic violence is shaped by multiple factors.
Each individual comes into a courtroom encounter with cultural experiences and perspectives that might differ from those present in the courtroom.
All institutions have to develop specific policies and procedures to systematically build cultural competence.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF