Caring for Children from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds from your own
Added: (Thu Mar 09 2023)
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Caring for children from diverse cultural backgrounds can be somewhat “frightening” if you don’t know how to care for children whose background is different from your own. Luckily, we have a set of three attributes that will empower you with relevant skills to care for children who come from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Children from a different cultural background from yourself may come with different demands that you may find confusing. However, caring for children whose cultural background is different to yours isn’t as hard as you may perceive it to be.
You need a basic understanding of the children’s cultural backgrounds to care for them effectively.
3 key attributes that you need as a carer
All foster carers are required to have this set of skills. However, they are more useful to you as a foster carer who takes care of children from diverse cultural backgrounds.
1. Cultural awareness
This is a unique ability to examine and understand the role that cultural factors like race and ethnicity have in shaping normal day-to-day practices.
The aim is to become culturally aware of society with a keen focus on the cultural background of the child that you are caring for.
Understanding the child’s culture will create a special bond between the two of you. It will also allow you to understand their motivation to do things that people outside of their culture would not understand.
2. Positive response to prejudice and discrimination
You cannot ignore the possibility of you and the fostered child experiencing racism, prejudice, or any other type of discrimination that is based on culture. You must understand that it will impact the child negatively.
Your role as a foster carer is to help the young person to develop positive strategies to cope with such kind of discrimination against them based on culture or race.
3. Multicultural strategies
You are charged with the development of multicultural strategies that will promote the child’s culture. This skill is all about becoming aware of the different cultural settings in society and finding unique avenues to know more about them and how to care for children from these backgrounds.
How do we help foster carers with children from diverse cultural backgrounds?
We have a team of social workers that will help you to understand the cultural backgrounds of young people. Amongst the things we do include:
• Discussing any attitude that you may have about children from a difference cultural background from your own
• Helping you to create a positive attitude to avoid negative stereotyping or prejudice against children from a different cultural backgrounds
• Helping you to formulate strategies to deal with cultural issues such as racism, discrimination, and prejudice
• Providing you with information about a fostered child’s cultural background including their religion, language, and race
• Providing you with relevant contacts for networking with organisations or groups that are relevant to the culture of the child you are caring for.
Summarily…
The set of skills that we recommend is sufficient to help you care for children from diverse cultural backgrounds effectively. We are also offering tons of support in case you want professional assistance to care for children from the many diverse cultural backgrounds.
Therefore, get in touch with us today if you want to start fostering and care for children who maybe from different culture backgrounds.