LEAD Professional Development Association Inc

Professional Development

Cultural Safety in the Workplace ©

This interactive eLearning course explores the concept of developing, implementing and maintaining a Culturaly Safe work environment for Aboriginal employees.

Aboriginal staff bring unique skills and perspectives to their workplaces and often assist organisations with developing strong relationships with Aboriginal clients, communities and Aboriginal organisations.

While there is a large focus on providing a culturally safe environment for clients, organisations must also be mindful to provide a culturally safe work environment for Aboriginal employees. Culturally unsafe environments can negatively impact Aboriginal employees while conversely, a safe and supportive environment can provide a place where Aboriginal employees can thrive (and not just survive).

Learning Outcomes

This (60 Minutes) self-paced eLearning Course will:

  • Introduce you to cultural safety and provide applications to practice.
  • Explore racism and specifically, racism in the workplace, with examples of evidence of experiences of racism from several research projects and from Aboriginal peoples’ voices, using quotes.
  • Provide strategies for individuals and organisations to develop and contribute to culturally safe environments. Strategies include reflecting on your own attitudes, a focus on education including educating self and education in the workplace, the development of reconciliation action plans (RAPs) and how & why to be a good ally to Aboriginal colleagues.
  • Provide you you with the opportunity to reflect on your own behaviors and practice, as well as to reflect on scenarios and lived experiences shared in the course.

Target Audience 

The Target Audience for this course is all non-Aboriginal workers, supervisors, managers and leaders in organisations that employ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples.

It is especially relevant to workers in Service Providers who are funded by the Department of Communities and Justice, under the Targeted Earlier Intervention (TEI) program.

Artwork by © Amy Allerton, Contemporary Aboriginal Artist of the Gamilaroi, Gumbaynggirr and Bundjalung Nations.

REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION AND GRATITUDE.

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  • Member: $18.00 + GST
  • Non-Member: $30.00 + GST
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LEAD gratefully acknowldges the financial and other support from the NSW Government’s Department of Communites and Justice.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

At LEAD we acknowledge, recognise and respect the Traditional Custodians of the land upon which places of work are located, and value and embrace the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strat Strait Islander culture. Our vision for reconciliation is to close the gap and improve the life outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations by improving access and equity across all seventeen socio-economic and health targets including shared visions, shared journeys- same opportunity, same outcomes, same life expectancy.

DIVERSITY COMMITMENT

LEAD is committed to embracing diversity and eliminating discrimination in the provision of all of our services and the workforce. LEAD welcomes all people irrespective of age, ethnicity, faith sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status.

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Artwork by Chris Tobin, commissioned by LEAD to create an original piece of art that reflects who we are and what we do. Titled “Many Countries, One Water”, the artwork represents the diversity and the connectedness across the communities in which we work. Reproduced with permission and gratitude.

Acknowledgement

LEAD acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land we gather and work on, and the land that you are on while visiting our website. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the cultures and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the nation. A better understanding and respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures develops an enriched appreciation for Australia’s cultural heritage and can lead to reconciliation. This is essential to the maturity of Australia as a nation and fundamental to the development of an Australian identity. Understanding and respect are guiding principles of LEAD’s Reconciliation Action Plan.
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