CULTURAL COMPETENCY AND DIVERSITY

For development of cultural competence knowledge, training, acquiring, and use of skill sets to be effective, we need to be both aware and attentive to the dynamic quality of culture and be committed to the practice of cultural humility. Cultural humility is an important facet of professional identity that encourages self-evolvement and evolvement of self through one’s professional life. It also includes evolvement of the profession’s identity that bridges social distance as well as power differential between the social worker and client systems (Ramanathan, 2014).

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Diversity means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual differences. These can be along. the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.

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Courses taken to satisfy this competency: Nonprofit Leadership Seminar & Nonprofit Organizations