Cultural Competency, Sensitivity, and Diversity Training and Consulting
This Training and Consulting Component and Curriculum focuses on the total system of values, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and standards of behavior that regulate life within a particular group of people.
It emphasizes that culture includes components that organizae people into social groups that regulate both individual and group behavior...ethnicity and culture are not interchangeable...culture, in contrast to race, gender or ethnicity, is transmitted through learning.
Through a variety of training, consultation, program evaluation, and facilitation activities; in a sensitive, mutually respectful, and collaborative environment, assistance is offered in a variety of ways, which include the following:
- Help understand concepts of culture and diversity, and recognize the strengths and limitations in all cultures and how to apply them to everyday life
- Help understand how ones own culture affects their perceptions of and responses to other people
- Help recognize that lack of awareness can create interpersonal conflict