Engaging in ‘Necessary‘ Conversations about Race and Racism with System-Involved Families, By Hideko Akashi
Provided by Family Paths (CEU Provider #62239) in conjunction with Chabot-Las Positas Community College District and Alameda County through Title IV-E Funding. This workshop is free & open to those who work with children in the foster care system in Alameda County.
THIS TRAINING WILL BE HELD ONLINE VIA ZOOM. A link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the training begins. Please be sure to check your email from Eventbrite for updates. If you have any issues downloading the ZOOM app or have any questions/concerns please email trainings@familypaths.org.
This training meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Training Description:
What does it mean to have a ‘necessary’ conversation about race and racism?
With all of the racial injustice that continue to witness year after year, and with a political divide wider than ever, we have reached a point of not being able to converse with each other across difference. A ‘necessary’ conversation challenges each person to move from a place of “calling out” another person to “calling them in”. How do we do that when it comes to talking about issues of race?
This workshop provides participants with an opportunity to learn practical and immediately applicable skills to have a more effective dialogue across difference using guidelines that create a more conducive environment for sharing. Participants will practice by sharing their own examples of challenging conversations or social dynamics across race. The theory of cooperative relationships provides a more expansive approach to human relationships. We will learn how to identify when a ‘necessary’ conversation, particularly across difference, is imperative and how to set it up. Providers will gain practical approaches about how to engage families more openly about the topic of race and racism. There will be opportunities to start from a culturally humble place of self-reflection and understanding of our own social location and how to talk about it, instead of avoiding it. We will unpack the ways early childhood socialization regarding race led us to internalize the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors about how to respond to racial stress and related conflict. Providers and caregivers in the child welfare or probation systems can practice and apply these skills and tools in their work with youth and families.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explore and self-reflect on how our own environment growing up and our socialization sets the stage for how we handle talking about race
- Identify our social groupings and the effect that has on engaging in a ‘necessary’ conversation around race and racism
- Identify and describe the assumptions and behaviors of competition vs. cooperation
- Learn how to view racism from both a personal/interpersonal level, as well as analyzing it from a systems and institutional level
When: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 9:00am-1:00pm
Space is limited.
Please note: This training will be recorded for internal purposes only.
The Trainer With over 20 years of experience in the educational sector, Hideko Akashi has challenged individuals and institutions to think critically about issues of diversity, privilege, social justice, inclusion, and equity. Hideko is a skilled and professional facilitator with an extensive teaching background which allows her to create spaces that push participants to engage in a challenging learning process. She enjoys exploring topics around liberation, race/racism, privilege, gender/sexism, sexual orientation, intersectionality, socialization, internalization and systemic cycles of oppression. Beyond group facilitation and training workshops, Hideko also engages institutions on strategic plans to make transformational and meaningful changes in their organizational culture.
CEUs This training meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. A 30 minute lunch is not included in the total CEU time awarded. CEUs will be awarded via email at least 10 days after training. Provided by Family Paths, Provider #62239 thru CAMFT CEPA. We will be unable to provide attendees with certificates of completion if more than 15 minutes of course content is missed.
Disability Accommodation Family Paths will make reasonable efforts during the training to accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities and/or medical conditions in accordance/compliance with the State Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable statutes. To request an accommodation due to a disability/medical condition during this training, please contact the Clinical Training Coordinator no later than 5 days before the training. The buildings where most of our trainings are conducted are wheelchair accessible and have disabled parking available.
Cancellation Policy We do not charge for our trainings at present and space is limited. If you cannot attend we ask that you contact us as soon as possible in order to open up that seat to someone else. If training is cancelled, participants are notified via email no later than one week prior to the training if possible. If a trainer has an emergency and notifies the training department in less than week, those registered for the training are notified as soon as possible. Training registrants are provided the makeup date that is scheduled for the training.
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