Week 8 – signature assignment: create a cultural competency toolkit

This week, you will submit your comprehensive toolkit to assist in creating a culturally competent social work practice. Select a culturally diverse or different population group you currently or anticipate practicing with, and then construct a resource guide for this practice. Include the following in your toolkit:

Use reflection and self-regulation to manage personal values and maintain professionalism in practice situations;

Use supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior.

Evaluate two ethical concerns that must be addressed to provide culturally-competent social work treatment to the identified individuals and families.

Interpret the barriers to effective practice faced by the identified group, including issues of institutional racism or oppression created by laws or policies that affect your practice. 

Evaluate two ethical concerns that must be addressed to provide culturally-competent social work treatment to the identified individuals and families.

Add the media resources you previously identified in Week 5 to the toolkit.

Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.

Length: 10-12 pages, not including title and reference pages