Launch the course
Who should take this course?
Child welfare professionals and partners working directly with youth and families in out of home care.
What will I learn?
Knowing Who You Are is a self-paced, interactive learning space for exploring racial and ethnic identity. You’ll discover:
- Ideas for helping youth in foster care achieve a positive and healthy sense of racial and ethnic identity
- Opportunities to investigate the impact of stereotypes, messages, and social influences on your own racial and ethnic identity.
- Data about the impact of institutional racism on various racial and ethnic groups.
- Strategies for addressing racism in your personal and professional life.
Samples from the course
My Point of View—case workers, alumni
of foster care, and parents discuss
what race and ethnicity mean to them.
Challenging Our Beliefs—“Enlightenment is
the state of seeing things as they are.”
An interactive exercise illustrates power
and privilege in our society.
Heart, Mind, Body, Spirit—a series of questions
provides an opportunity to assess your
“personal truth” about racial and ethnic identity.
Technical requirements
To take the online course, you’ll need:
- Access to a computer with a high-speed Internet connection
- An e-mail address
- A monitor with a screen resolution of 800x600 or higher
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
- Macromedia Flash 7 Player
- Cookies enabled—this is an Internet Explorer setting that allows information to be stored as you page through the course
- JavaScript enabled—this is an Internet Explorer setting that makes Web pages more interactive