Webinar: Healing from Racial and Cultural Discrimination in Early Childhood
This is a completed event.
Description:
Synopsis: The process of internalizing empathy and social discrimination occurs at an early age. Early childhood educators play an important role in helping children thrive in a society where racial and cultural biases exist. Join this session to learn relational strategies to cultivate cultural and racial empathy in young children.
Objectives:
- Understand the occurrence of and address individual biases about racial and cultural discrimination in interpersonal relationships.
- Recognize the impact of discrimination on young children while supporting diverse groups of children and families.
- Acquire developmentally appropriate relational strategies, including cultural empathy, to promote healing of trauma triggered by racial and cultural discrimination.