Cultural Safety for Social Workers Course Online: 3 Social Work CPD Hours

Cultural Safety, Humility and Anti-Racism in Practice is a practical, self-paced CPD course for social workers and social service workers across Canada. Required-topic course: cultural safety and humility, anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, power, bias and practice change. It has nine narrated lessons and a 36-question final exam. Built to align with Canadian social work regulators’ CPD requirements for self-directed learning. Every course gives you what you submit for your CPD record: a certificate with your name, the provider, course title, completion date and CPD hours, plus the course outline, learning outcomes and your exam result.

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Cultural Safety, Humility and Anti-Racism in Practice at a glance

What you will learn in this cultural safety for social workers course

• Explain cultural competence, cultural humility and cultural safety.
• Define social location, privilege and intersectionality.
• Describe how culture and context shape communication.
• Explain individual, interpersonal, institutional and structural racism.
• Plan a welcoming, safe first meeting.
• Describe ways to build trust with Indigenous clients and communities.
• Describe barriers faced by newcomers, faith communities, 2SLGBTQI+ people and people with disabilities.
• Describe the features of a culturally safe organization.
• Apply cultural safety and humility to mixed cases.

Cultural Safety for Social Workers course curriculum: nine lessons built around real situations

Short narrated lessons with worked examples and practice pauses, each closing with a knowledge check. Slides and a transcript are included for every lesson.

Cultural Safety for Social Workers course: 3 online CPD hours for Canadian social workers

The course counts as 3 instructional hours. Complete every lesson, pass the final exam, download your certificate, and enter the activity in your regulator’s CPD record yourself. Keep the certificate and your notes as evidence. This is a required-topic course: several regulators ask for ethics, Indigenous learning, cultural safety or equity, diversity and inclusion hours. See the requirements by province page to check where it fits.

Built to align with Canadian social work regulators’ CPD requirements for self-directed learning. Every course gives you what you submit for your CPD record: a certificate with your name, the provider, course title, completion date and CPD hours, plus the course outline, learning outcomes and your exam result.

The complete pack gives you all 18 courses and 54 CPD hours with a certificate for each, for $299 CAD. Bought one at a time they would cost $702.

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