ACKNOWLEDGING Family Identities & Expertise
“Dialoguing with families promotes culturally responsive environments,” says parent Josephine Lorya-Ozulamu. We invite dialogue with families to understand their culturally informed expertise and experiences.
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In this section, you’ll explore strategies to effectively partner with the families of individuals with whom you work by acknowledging their whole personhood and culture: social identities, values, lived experiences, traditions, wisdom, etc. This is an ongoing, critical part of your practice because:
- Acknowledging families’ cultures is central to offering culturally congruent support, and
- Acknowledging families can positively influence behavioral health outcomes and quality of life.
This lesson facilitates practice:
- Explaining how family members’ identities, values, lived experiences, and expertise are central to authentic and culturally congruent family partnership,
- Prioritizing family members’ values to guide and determine support processes, and
- Describing, recognizing, and implementing the skills of encouraging partnership, compassionate responding, and demonstrating understanding.
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