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Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression for White Providers Working with Youth

Thu, Sep 03

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Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression for White Providers Working with Youth
Interrupting the Cycle of Oppression for White Providers Working with Youth

Time & Location

Sep 03, 2020, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Online Event

About the Event

Kelsey Pacha

Training Description

This training will assist white providers in reflecting on their own power and privilege within their personal identities, while also considering the intersectional context of their youth clients in out-of-home care. Through personal assessment, group discussion, and multimedia, participants will define microaggressions, bias, stereotypes, and prejudice and learn to recognize them in action. Finally, through group activity and roleplay, participants will develop personal strategies to intervene when witnessing the perpetration of damaging messages, whether through institutional or internalized oppression. Participants will learn four frameworks and associated strategies to address bias on an individual level, roleplay intervening when clients express internalized oppression, and three methods to interrupt oppression in systems. Participants will learn to recognize internalized oppression in clients and explore the use of decolonization, harm reduction, and non-violent communication to interrupt internalized oppression in clients. 

Learning Objectives

  • Reflect on their unique combination of identities (age, ability,…

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