Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

Cultural Identity Exercise

What is your cultural identity?

Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

Cultural Identity Exercise

What is your cultural identity?

Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence/APIAHF www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

Working AssumptionsCULTURALLY 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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

Working AssumptionsCULTURALLY 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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

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 www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute

Working AssumptionsCULTURALLY 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.