Cultural Competancy
Online Training
Wednesday July 26th
1:00 PM - 2:30 Pm
Barbie Izquierdo and Tamika Moore will provide a webinar regarding Cultural Competency from a lived experience lens, reflecting on the importance of understanding a variety of cultures and systemic barriers they have faced.
The goal of this training is to discuss lived experience and the importance of cultural competency to deepen community relationships and ethically engage families.
Learning Objectives
During this webinar, Barbie Izquierdo and Tamika Moore will share personal life experiences, which may include pictures and/or videos that will create an understanding of the effects of cultural competency and unconscious bias and how service providers can overcome those challenges. We will then guide the webinar into a question-and-answer session/conversation where the audience can engage in live support.
The goal of this training is to discuss lived experience and the importance of cultural competency to deepen community relationships and ethically engage families.
Learning Objectives
- Define lived experience and explain why it is important to this work
- Challenge the way people think about institutional racism
- Identify strategies for removing barriers to partnering with people of lived experience.
- Suggestions to better support families and partnerships with families receiving services
During this webinar, Barbie Izquierdo and Tamika Moore will share personal life experiences, which may include pictures and/or videos that will create an understanding of the effects of cultural competency and unconscious bias and how service providers can overcome those challenges. We will then guide the webinar into a question-and-answer session/conversation where the audience can engage in live support.
Meet the Trainers
BARBIE IZQUIERDO
2022 Global Citizen Prize Award winner Barbie Izquierdo, is the Founder of Community Driven Consulting LLC & the Director of Advocacy- Neighbors Engagement at Feeding America. She is a global spokesperson with lived expertise, trailblazing in the movement to fight the exploitation of people with lived experience who have been affected by public policy. She is an expert on food insecurity and other social justice issues, an advocate, organizer, and consultant providing technical support regarding the engagement and inclusion of people with living experiences. With a background of 14 years in this work, she has shared her insight and story regarding hunger and poverty, including in the call to action documentary “A Place at the Table”. has used her lived experience and advocacy journey as a catalyst for policy change, and her mission is to help bring dignity and equity into the frameworks used by non-profit organizations and government entities. She takes pride in providing impactful public speaking driven and grounded in vulnerability, truth, and authenticity, to empower and motivate thought leaders and organizations to action.
