Resource: Using Simulation Training to Improve Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice

Resource: Using Simulation Training to Improve Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice
Lead Author: Robin Leake
Submitted by: Amber Snyder, University of Pittsburgh

Child Welfare professionals work in diverse communities and manage complex factors influencing parenting, values, and worldviews of the families they support. Working across varied communities requires culture awareness and responsiveness. The project outlined in this research intended to enhance cultural awareness and responsiveness through a competency-based training program using simulation.

Through a half-day simulation training provided participants with the opportunity to understand the experiences of Latino client families in the child welfare system. Through the simulation, participants experience a full range of emotions from fully developed characters in the simulation including hope, frustration, motivation, and social pressure.

Read the full article in the Journal of Public Child Welfare here.

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