Racial Resilience: Refugee Trauma, Racism and Dehumanisation

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

🧠 Understand Racism and Refugee Trauma

Learn how race-based discrimination, dehumanisation, and systemic injustice intersect with refugee trauma and displacement — and how this shapes health, mental health, and belonging.

📚 Recognise Historical and Structural Racism

Gain insight into how colonialism, empire, and racial hierarchies continue to influence institutions, social norms, and refugee settlement experiences today.

👁️ Identify Racial Trauma in Children and Young People

Understand how racial traumatic stress can affect development, mental health, behaviour, and identity — and how to support racialised youth safely and effectively.

💬 Talk About Race with Confidence

Build the language and awareness to talk about race, racism, bias, and belonging — even in uncomfortable moments — with cultural humility, emotional intelligence and professional boundaries.

🛡️ Address Implicit Bias Without Shame

Explore the neuroscience of unconscious bias, how social environments shape racial perception, and what it means to engage with bias in a culturally safe and structurally aware way.

🌱 Foster Racial Resilience in Refugee Communities

Learn practical strategies to affirm identity, counter internalised racism, build belonging, and support racial literacy in children and families exposed to racism.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This workshop is ideal for:

• Counsellors, caseworkers and social workers
• Educators and school wellbeing staff
• Youth and community workers
• Healthcare and mental health professionals
• Settlement and housing support staff
• Anyone working with culturally diverse or refugee communities

No prior experience in racial literacy or anti-racism is required. Just bring a willingness to reflect, learn, and contribute to safer, more inclusive services for all.

FORMAT AND INCLUSIONS

• ✅ Online and in-person delivery
• ✅ Facilitated by an experienced trauma-informed practitioner
• ✅ Includes interactive activities, real-life scenarios, and skill practice
• ✅ Claim 6 CPD points
• ✅ Receive a certificate of completion
• ✅ Receive a PDF of the workshop slides

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Payment of the registration fee is online by credit card and a receipt/confirmation will be automatically emailed to you. An administration fee of $30 applies to all cancellations made more than 14 days the day before the start of the event. Registration once paid cannot be cancelled 14 days or less the day before the start of the event, regardless of personal circumstances. Registration can be transferred to another delegate only if STARTTS is informed of the name change. Registration cannot be transferred to another workshop. The concession price is for full-time students, seniors and the unemployed. A photocopy or pdf of a valid concession card must be forwarded to the STARTTS training team upon registration. Registrations will not be confirmed until full payment is received. The deadlines for the early bird and standard prices cannot be extended. Sometimes STARTTS will need to change the trainer of a particular workshop. The STARTTS Training Team can be contacted at stts-training@health.nsw.gov.au or (02) 9646 6700.