Ethics and Boundaries: Understanding EDI to Leverage Cultural Humility

Do you know me?  How can I trust that you are someone that understands me, my culture, and will speak to the needs of diversity, equity, and inclusion when asked? 

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in your practice

This training focuses on appropriate ethics and boundaries in client-case manager and peer-to-peer relationships in everyday practice.  Participants will engage in self-reflective activities related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, different abilities, and intersectionality.  Oppression, discrimination, power and control, and historical and structural racism, and privilege will be featured as it relates to the helping professions.  Use of group discussions and personal reflection will foster understanding of ethical, reflective practice with clients, personal diversity, and skill level in cultural humility, and increasing knowledge of diverse cultures within the helping professions.  

Learning Objectives:   

• Define and understand cultural humility and cultural competence.  
• Reflect and assess your knowledge and assumptions of other cultures, understanding of your own equity, diversity, and inclusion journey, and explore your values.  
• Examine your professional decision making through recognition of your personal biases.   
• Use a critical race and self-assessing lens to apply the Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), when faced with ethical dilemmas and decision making.  
• Demonstrate understanding of the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), ethical principles, and boundaries applied to specific ethical dilemmas when confronting ethical challenges by co-workers, utilizing the Nine Step Ethical-Decision Making Model.  

This program satisfies the Wisconsin Social Worker’s Ethics and Boundaries requirements for licensing. 

Who should attend

Social workers, counselors, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, substance abuse counselors, school psychologists, and other human service professionals

• Dana Johnson, MSW, holds a Master of Social Work degree and is a social worker in the State of Wisconsin. He has over 12 years of direct practice and senior level management experience in county human services, educator at the undergraduate and graduate level, and owner of a training and consulting business. His experience in organizational leadership, direct supervision of staff, conducting agency and culture change, policy analysis, continuous quality improvement and organizational effectiveness; enhances multiple tiers of agency culture change. His areas of expertise include leadership development, innovation, human services and reform, ethics and boundaries, trauma-informed practice, and diversity, equity and inclusion. He has provided non-profit and public sector organizations transformative training in his areas of expertise for over a decade.