Responding to Families in Culturally Sensitive Ways
A PITC Training Session

Format: 3 hour session; 30-40 participants, lecture, video, discussion

This session helps participants increase their awareness of their own cultural assumptions and of how these assumptions may affect their interactions with families from cultures different from their own. Activities are designed to allow participants to explore in depth their own cultural roots. Building on the second five keys of the DVD Essential Connections, this session then focuses on developing culturally responsive relationships with families.

Related Module(s):
IV Culture, Family, and Providers

Related Resources:
Article Cross-cultural Infant Care and Issues of Social Justice
Guide Infant/Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Culturally Sensitive Care
Handout Agenda - Responding to Families in Culturally Sensitive Ways (Early Head Start Version)
Handout Agenda- Responding to Families in Culturally Senstitve Ways
Handout Basic Assumptions
Handout Carol Brunson Phillips Quote
Handout Cultural Sensitivity is...
Handout Cultural Sensitivity Requires...
Handout Culturally Sensitive Care in Infant-Toddler Programs
Handout Defining Culture Activity
Handout Defining Values
Handout Guidelines for Becoming Culturally Responsive to Families
Handout Head Start Multicultural Principles (Used in EHS Trainings Only)
Handout Head Start Performance Standards -Section 1304.1-4 (Used in EHS Trainings Only)
Handout Key Concepts- Responding to Families in Culturally Sensitive Ways
Handout Skills Needed to Become Culturally Responsive to Families
Manual Trainer's Manual Module IV: Culture, Family and Providers
PowerPoint Responding to Families in Culturally Sensitive Ways- EHS ppt