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The Osiris Group
Cultural
Connections & Disconnections |
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Cultural Inclusion |
| The Osiris Group was created to help
professionals, parents, grad students, youth workers and others involved in
working with the urban population understand the perspectives, view points and
value selections that Black and Latino peoples present - as well as the importance
that culture plays in these peoples daily lives.
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How Cultural
Inclusion Can Help |
We believe that we should not
superimpose our own ideologies and culture on others, but rather
to help them make the correct choices within their cultural
realm.
We at the Osiris Group have a formulae to determine whether or not
professionals are culturally competent. It is this: a) professionally
trained + b) culturally competent = c) professionally competent. We
believe that being culturally competent when working with black people
is more important than being professionally educated. Culture
determines our belief systems, our values and the choices that we make in our every day
environments. We want all practitioners to be more knowledgeable
about the urban psyche and particularly the conditioning process that the African American
urban psyche has undergone.
If as practitioners in the helping fields
we are in tune with the cultural conditioning processes that the urban black
psyche has undergone, we will not only understand why these blacks present as
they do, but more importantly we will understand how to begin to reverse the
self destructive personality.
When clinicians, parents, or helping professionals are culturally disconnected
from understanding how a black person is making sense of their world, or the
values that support certain choice selections, helping professionals start to
look for reasons to blame his/her failed interventions on the individual.
For More Information
Larry Higginbottom, MSW/LCSW
Larry@osirisgroup.org |
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