In 2014, she opened Shafia Monroe Consulting, a business to provide
cultural competency training for health care providers and doulas who work with diverse populations in maternal and child health to improve pregnancy outcomes.
It also calls upon governments to increase the number of Aboriginal health - care professionals, ensure the retention of Aboriginal health - care providers in Aboriginal communities, and to
provide cultural competency training for all health - care professionals.
We call upon the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to ensure that lawyers receive
appropriate cultural competency training, which includes the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal — Crown relations.
There are many ways that medical schools are giving this instruction —
through cultural competency training, bioethics courses, humanities in medicine lectures, and the creation of programs on medicine and religion.
One was the necessity
of cultural competency training for lawyers, and the second called on law schools to require all students to take a course regarding Aboriginal Peoples and the law.
It is recommended that a limited number of family consultants be nominated in each registry to undertake Indigenous
cultural competency training with the expectation that these consultants will be routinely allocated Indigenous cases in the future.
One bubbly Brazilian student has been championing her team's petition — «the school needs
more cultural competency training for staff and students» — making presentations to classes and snapping up signatures.
David Troy: Implementing many of the ideals
from Cultural Competency training to meet more of our students» needs and developing more «runners» after reading Ron Clark's book, Move Your Bus.
Public Act 15 - 108, passed during the 2015 legislative session, sought to
improve cultural competency training for our state's educators so that, regardless of what type of school or what neighborhood teachers would work in, they will be best prepared to work effectively with their students.
For over a year, parents have been demanding that Mayor de Blasio provide leadership in our schools and implement a comprehensive program of Culturally Responsive Education,
including cultural competency trainings for teachers and school staff, in order to avoid just this kind of traumatic incident.
The school has
launched cultural competency training through professional development sessions run by the EDCO collaborative, but several teachers said the sessions were rote, with no dialogue across staff.
We advocate for a mandatory and assessable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health curriculum and
cultural competency training across the medical education and training continuum.
And while coroner Fogliani's recommendations included mandatory,
ongoing cultural competency training for police officers, to assist with health issues and other dealings with Aboriginal people, this isn't enough.
Update and
implement cultural competency training based on building a better understanding and respect for the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples into the Court's induction and registry operations training.
Building off the best practices in LGBTQ foster care and adoption developed by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's All Children — All Families initiative, the film and accompanying materials are excellent resources for use in adoption preparation classes for LGBTQ families, adoption support groups, academic classes and
LGBTQ cultural competency training for social workers.
The Canadian Council on Social Determinants of Health (CCSDH) has
identified cultural competency training options to assist organizations and individuals from different sectors to better understand Indigenous histories and cultures.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: Level 1 Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Level 1 & Level 2 Intergroup Dialog Cultural Competency Training
respect — improving awareness within the Court by developing
appropriate cultural competency training to better enhance our delivery of judicial services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients and establishing productive partnerships with appropriate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander agencies and elders
Subject matter experts will
provide cultural competency training, and will teach soft skills such as interviewing and problem solving for clients, as well as new skills and strategies for serving people in under - served practice areas like family law and administrative law.
Ensure that a select group of Family Consultants continue to undertake Indigenous
cultural competency training with the expectation that these consultants will be routinely allocated Indigenous cases in the future.
She notes that the ACA «has taken a first positive step in that direction» by providing funding for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender)
cultural competency training.
The IDRA EAC - South's Implicit Bias and
Cultural Competency training provides activities designed to investigate and facilitate conversations about societal norms and build cultural competencies to increase our capacity to be more inclusive.
Call to action # 27 deals specifically with lawyer education: «we call upon the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to ensure that lawyers receive appropriate
cultural competency training, which includes the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and aboriginal — Crown relations.
Mandatory social and
cultural competency training, in partnership with Indigenous and other community organizations
The CLE will provide
cultural competency training, and will look at soft skills such as interviewing and problem solving for clients, as well as new skills and strategies for serving clients in under - served practice areas like family law and administrative law.
Recommendation 27 calls upon the Federation of Law Societies of Canada «to ensure that lawyers receive appropriate
cultural competency training» in relation to the residential schools, Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law and Aboriginal - Crown relations.
Cultural competency training and supervision on this issue have both been raised as strategies for enhancing staff's capacity to work with minority families (Zayas et al., 1997; English & Brown, 1997; Jones et al., 1995).
It's great to see
that cultural competency training is moving away from teaching about different Aboriginal cultures and practices, to challenging the stereotypes, power dynamics, and culture and attitudes we bring that continue to negatively shape the health status of marginalized populations.