Project staff and experienced child welfare personnel adapted the Culture Simulator to train child welfare caseworkers to have an empathic understanding of minority children and families in order to encourage and support ethnic identity, integrity, and community life. The training technique used 4 self-instructional modules containing 40 critical casework incidents (derived from discussions with 180 San Antonio, Texas, barrio residents) depicting misunderstanding between Mexican American clients and Anglo American child welfare workers due to differences in their sociocultural backgrounds. Trainees (27 non-Hispanic child welfare workers) were instructed to rank the 4 alternative explanations for the misunderstanding in each vignette according to the-best-to-the-least preferred answer. Trainees were given the teaching volumes, each with a test form and rationales, in sequence. After reading the rationales in order of their answer selection, trainees scored their own tests. Results from trainees and 3 control groups (46 child welfare and family service workers tested with single volumes) indicated that significant cumulative learning took place, the technique was equally effective with experienced and inexperienced workers and for those with extensive exposure to the Mexican American community, and the best results were obtained when the modules were followed by discussions designed to integrate the knowledge gained. (Author/CM)