Discuss cultural competence and cultural literacy, how do these affect the work of child protections.
What will be an ideal response?
Cultural competence can be defined as the ability to understand the perspectives, experiences, and needs of people from diverse cultures, and adapt our work accordingly. The first part of that definition requires both self-knowledge and cultural humility, so we can understand how much of our own taken-for-granted viewpoints are cultural, and acknowledge the limits on our ability to truly “know” the lives of people from different backgrounds. Cultural literacy involves learning about groups of people who differ from us and trying to understand their perspectives as much as possible. It requires that we give up the “color blind” notion that treating everyone exactly the same is fair and instead adopt a perspective that each family or individual comes to us with a different set of strengths and weaknesses, habits and preferences, and the most “fair” way to proceed requires us to adapt what we do to the needs of the particular client.
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