Towards Religious Competency for Health Professionals

Cost

$ 40 (materials and continental breakfast)

This training will include presenters from five diverse religious traditions and provide a working opportunity to apply lessons learned in small groups through a case study approach.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain deeper knowledge of faith traditions – one’s own and others – and learn to apply these insights to work with clients and the community for improved health outcomes.

• Become more culturally competent for working in our religiously, racially and ethnically diverse and pluralistic society.

• Recognize preconceptions and stereotypes and learn how they affect relationships and health decisions.

• Work through public health specific scenarios that highlight challenges and opportunities working with religiously diverse populations.

• Develop relationships with people of other faiths that you can call upon in the future.

Presenters

Seventh Day Adventist - Rev. Nick Taliaferro

Judaism - Rabbi Linda Holtzman

Catholicism - Dr Xilma Ortiz-Gonzalez MD, PhD

Islam - Zakiya Islam, MA, BSN

Santeria - Vida Moise, BSN

Location

The Friends Center

The Rufus Jones Room

1501 Cherry Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102

Who Should Attend

Local, state, and federal health department/agency staff, staff from community-based organizations, physicians, nurses, social workers, health educators, and other hospital and clinic providers and staff.

Continuing Education

Applications for PA Board of Nursing, Social Work, CHES, and CPH will be submitted.

Parking
Lot on 15^th St in between Race and Cherry Street

* The Interfaith Center of Philadelphia brings together community members to get to know each other as people and to learn how to value and respect the “other” while maintaining (and often strengthening) their own religious identities.