This document summarizes a cultural competency training for navigators who work with men who have sex with men (MSM) of color. The training covers topics like understanding different MSM communities in Philadelphia, recognizing microaggressions, and examining one's own privilege, power, and positionality. Participants engage in activities to build empathy and discuss case studies. The goal is to help navigators develop the skills and self-awareness needed to effectively serve MSM clients in a culturally sensitive manner.

1. Philadelphia Department of Public Health
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office
CLUB 1509 Navigators
Prepared By Antar Bush, LSW
Cultural Competency for MSM of Color

2. THE CHECK IN
1. Name (if new) and Pronoun
2. How are you feeling? Using the
sanctuary model
3. Who will you asked for support in this
two day training?

3. JULY TRAINING SCHEDULE
• Trauma Informed Care Training Webinar http://tfcbt.musc.edu (10 hours)
July Tuesday July 26th 2016 at 9:00 am.
• HIV Medical Case Management Overview Thursday July 21, 2016 from 9:00
am to 4:00 pm Temple University Center City
• Behavioral Health Services Tuesday July 26, 2016 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
(1 day) AACO 1101 Market Street Philadelphia PA 19107 9th Floor
• Affordable Care Act Overview TrainingWednesday July 27th 2016 from 9:00
am to 4:30 pm Action Wellness
THURSDAY JULY 7TH 2016 DAY 2 CULURAL COMPETENCY AT
AACO 1101 Market Street 8th Floor.

4. OBJECTIVES
•Identify MSMOC communities in
Philadelphia
•Understanding how Cultural Competency
plays a major role in providing public
health and social services
•Identify various communities within the
MSMOC spectrum
•Understanding the importance of
language within MSMOC
•The Impact of Privilege, Power, and
“Positionality” within this community
“Preservation of one's own culture does not require
contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”
Cesar Chavez

5. The Warm-Up WHAT ARE YOUR
VALUES?
 Pick Your 3 Values for the
cards in front of you.
 Get up and share those
values with three other
people in the room you do
not know well
 What’s is the point of
knowing someone's values?
What does this have to with
Cultural Competency

6. Synopsis
 What is cultural competence?
◦ Racial, ethnic and national groups have their own
respective cultures but the ideas may not be
consistent across individuals
families, communities
 Definitions and values
◦ Knowledge – paradigms for health
◦ Skill areas – micro, groups, communities
 Critical thinking and assessing cultural views
◦ Awareness of multiple identities
◦ Affirmation of persons’ uniqueness
 Realities in navigation practice and supervision

7. UNIT TWO: MSM of Color COMMUNITES
Philadelphia Department of Public Health
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office
CLUB 1509 Navigators Cultural Competency

8. HBO’s OUTLIST
Janet Mock, Wade Davis, and Twiggy
https://NETFLEXS

9. Process Questions ??????????
1. What oppressive factors did each of them have in
common?
2. What were the differences in their values?
3. What are your gut level reactions to each MSM of
color community?

10. What does it mean to Culturally
Competent?
The ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with people
from cultures and/or belief systems other than one’s own,
based on various factors.
As social service providers we do not have to understand
our clients to serve them. We must respect the inherit
dignity of all human beings.

11. YOU AIN’T MESSIN WIT MY CLIQUE!!
Transmen who love Transwomen Community
Ballroom Community
Black Church Community
*DL (Down low) Church community*
Muslim Community
Puerto Rican Men
Mexicans from South Philly
Club Kids
Gym/Jock Queens
Drag Queens
Social Media Groups
Down Low Men
CALL OUT MORE COMMUNITIES!

12. Why do you as the Navigator need
to know the difference between
these communities?
It will help you build a therapeutic alliance with the client.
This will prevent the client from having to explain language
and normalities within the community.

13. Dimensions of Culture
Task
Individualism
Universalism
Direct
Relationships
Group-oriented
Particularism
Indirect

14. PLEASE COME BACK IN 15 MINUTES NOT 20!!

15. Philadelphia Department of Public Health
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office
CLUB 1509 Navigators Cultural Competency
UNIT THREE: MICRO-AGGRESSIONS

16. Brene Brown’s EMPATHY
https://EMPATHY

17. DISCOMFORT ACTIVITY:
Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Process Question: What does the activity get you to mimic?
https://ACT Music

18. How does empathy and ACT connect
with our topic of
Micro-Aggressions?
This will allow the navigator to learn how to manage their own
counter-transference, without causing further harm with
micro-aggressions.

19. What are Micro-Aggressions?
A social exchange in which a member of a dominant culture
says or does something, often accidentally, and without
intended malice, that belittles and alienates a member of a
marginalized group.

20. Cultural categories where Micro-
Aggressions are used most
 Citizenship
 Race
 Gender
 Sexual identity
 Class
 Ableism
 Religion
 Age
 Location – urban suburban, rural
 Intersectionality

21. Story Time
Would you please share a time you experienced a micro-aggression and
how it made you feel?

22. Ignorance is NOT Bliss!
https://Cultural Competency in Health Care

23. PLEASE BE BACK BY 12:45 PMPLEASE BE BACK BY 12:45 PM

24. Philadelphia Department of Public Health
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office
CLUB 1509 Navigators Cultural Competency
UNIT FOUR: Community Perspectives
Kevin M. , Richard Laboy, Hank Wyatts

25. REFLECTION QUESTIONS
 Any of these gentlemen could be a client
at your agency. This is your time to ask
questions as a social service provider ON
what are the best practices for
engagement with MSM of color.

26. PLEASE COME BACK IN 15 MINUTES NOT 20!!

27. Philadelphia Department of Public Health
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office
CLUB 1509 Navigators Cultural Competency
UNIT FOUR: Community Perspectives
Kevin M. , Richard Laboy, Hank Wyatts

28. REFLECTION QUESTIONS
 Any of these gentlemen could be a client
at your agency. This is your time to ask
questions as a social service provider ON
what are the best practices for
engagement with MSM of color.

29. PLEASE COME BACK IN 15 MINUTES NOT 20!!

30. Good Morning! CLUB 1509 Team
The Check-In
1.How are you feeling this morning?
2.What did you like about yesterday?
3.What didn’t you like about yesterday?
4.Who will you ask for support?
(Make it different from yesterday)

31.  What is a micro-aggression?
 Why is it important to have cultural competency
in social services?
 What make someone culturally competent?
 What is something you know need to work on to
make you a better navigator?
 What does a client’s core values help you in
cultural competency?

32.  CLUB 1509 write down one judgment or
opinion of a cultural behavior or belief that is
practiced by another person who is different
than your own.
 Place the paper in the hat
 Take another one out and read it out loud.

33. Philadelphia Department of Public Health
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office
CLUB 1509 Navigators Cultural Competency Training
UNIT SIX: POWER, PRIVILEGE, &
POSITIONALITY

34. What is Privilege?
Privilege operates on personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional
levels and gives advantages, favors, and benefits to members of
dominant groups at the expense of members of target groups. In the
United States, privilege is granted to people who have membership in
one or more of these social identity groups:
•White people;
•Able-bodied people;
•Heterosexuals;
•Males;
•Christians;
•Middle or owning class people;
•Middle-aged people;
•English-speaking people
WHAT IS YOUR PRIVELGE?

35. What is Power?
 The ability or official authority to
decide what is best for others. The
ability to decide who will have
access to resources. The capacity
to exercise control over others.

36. What is Positionality?
 This is where one fits in society. Does
one’s identities work to give them power
or to oppress them? In order to help avoid
inadvertently reproducing certain forms of
oppression in social work, it is important
for the providers to examine their own
identities and understand how their
identities give them privilege in society or
not.

37. An exaggerated or distorted
belief that attributes
characteristics to members
of a particular group,
simplistically lumping them
together and refusing to
acknowledge differences
among members of the
group.
VS.
A judgment or opinion that is
formed on insufficient grounds
before facts are known or in
disregard of facts that
contradict it. Prejudices
RESULT IN AN ACTION OF
EXCLUSION.

38. PLEASE COME BACK IN 15 MINUTES NOT 20!!

40. https://Jamaica's Gully Queens

41. Process Questions?
1. Are all gays oppressed in Jamaica?
2. What are examples of positionality in the movie?
3. What stereotypes are perpetuated in the documentary?
4. What role does the government play in the role of the gully
queens oppression?
5. What would do if a gully queen came to you for service?

42. PLEASE BE BACK BY 12:45 PM