Beyond Cultural Competence: Cultural Humility in Clinical Practice 4-Hour Training
4.0 CREDIT HOURS
Fulfills Maryland Anti-Oppressive Social Work 3 CE Requirement
ASWB ACE Cultural Competence Credits
Fulfills DC Social Work Health Priorities 4 Hr Req
 
Course Overview: 
Cultural humility is an essential and ongoing practice that enhances the therapeutic alliance and promotes ethical, client-centered care. While cultural competence focuses on acquiring knowledge and skills to work effectively with diverse populations, cultural humility takes a deeper approach—emphasizing self-reflection, continuous learning, and the acknowledgment of personal and systemic biases.
 
This interactive training will guide participants in distinguishing between cultural competence and cultural humility, fostering a mindset of openness, curiosity, and self-exploration. Through case studies, discussion, and reflective exercises, attendees will develop strategies to critically examine their own biases, recognize the impact of intersectionality and trauma on client experiences, and cultivate an equitable and inclusive clinical environment.
 
By engaging in this process, participants will be better equipped to dismantle power imbalances in therapeutic relationships, ensuring that client perspectives and lived experiences remain central to the healing process.
 
This is an ideal training for those clinicians licensed in DC and/or Maryland, as this training fulfills BOTH the Maryland Anti-Oppressive Social Work 3 Hour Requirment and the DC Health Priorities requirement. 
 
Furthermore, this training fulfills 4.0 hours of cultural diversity/competency continuing education requirements for numerous states, including but not limited to:
Connecticut, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Arizona, Rhode Island, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, and Minnesota.
 
Presenter:
Chandra Dawson is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Certified Grief Informed Professional with over 20 years of social work practice. Throughout her professional career, she has served various marginalized populations. A large portion of her career has been spent designing, managing, and implementing programs designed to meet the multifaceted needs of the underserved.  She has years of organizational experience providing crisis intervention, supervision, group facilitation, training, consultation, program/project management and senior leadership to organizations. Those served include vulnerable populations such as gender-based violence survivors, homeless, economically marginalized, disability, HIV+ and other underserved groups. 

Mrs. Dawson is also the founder of The MACRO Project, Inc., a social work consulting practice providing quality trauma-informed services to groups, organizations and agencies representing various systems. Rooted in an intersectional equity framework, The MARCO Project is built upon the belief that trauma prevention and intervention requires a focus on community and system-level functions and power imbalances. 
 
Mrs. Dawson is deeply committed to promoting and facilitating healing strategies designed to address the intersecting issues of racial, gender and economic oppression. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland.