AACN Cultural Competency in Baccalaureate Nursing Education
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing Cultural Competency in Baccalaureate Nursing Education document provides a framework to facilitate the attainment of cultural competence by baccalaureate nursing graduates. These competencies apply to practice in a variety of healthcare settings, patients across the wellness illness continuum, and patients across the lifespan, in collaboration with the interprofessional team. |
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AACN Toolkit of Resources for Cultural Competent Education for Baccalaureate Nurses
The AACN Cultural Competency Toolkit provides resources and exemplars to facilitate implementation of cultural competencies in baccalaureate nursing education. It identifies significant content, teaching-learning activities and resources that will help faculty integrate cultural competency in nursing curriculum. |
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A Manager's Guide to Cultural Competence Education for Health Care Professionals - 2003
This manager's guide includes information on how to structure a cultural competence training program, as well as resources to assist in setting up a training program to identify qualified trainers, and to assess the cultural competence of organizations and their personnel. It is a companion piece to Principles and Recommended Standards for Cultural Competence Education of Health Care Professionals and Resources in Cultural Competence Education for Health Care Professionals. |
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A Prescription for Crime Prevention: Improving Youth Access to Effective Mental Health Approaches (2002)
Prepared by Fight Crime Invest in Kids, this report reviews promising and proven approaches to treatment for kids at high risk for juvenile delinquency. |
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Breaking Down the Barriers to Service
The California Endowment launched its $24 million Special Opportunities in Mental Health Funding Initiative in 2001 to gain greater understanding of the barriers that limit effective mental health services in California and find innovative ways to cross those barriers. This document describes the Mental Health Funding Initiative, its grantees and its early lessons learned. |
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Build The Field and they Will Come: Multicultural Organizational Development for Mental Health Agencies
This handbook -- prepared by Antioch University, Santa Barbara, Child Abuse Listening & Mediation, Family Service
Agency of Santa Barbara, and the University of California, Santa Barbara -- can help community-based organizations increase the cultural competency of their mental health services and promote lasting organizational change by reforming and/or revitalizing their agency structures and taking steps to enhance the multicultural competence of their personnel. |
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Connecting Worlds Curriculum
The Connecting Worlds curriculum, funded by The California Endowment, is an introduction to health care interpreting that combines a variety of teaching methods and materials, including lectures, videos, large group discussions, small group activities, role-plays, research and homework. The development of the curriculum involved a statewide collaboration with Asian Health Services, Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo, Healthy House and California Health Collaborative, Vista Community Clinic and PALS for Health.The Connecting Worlds training provides bilingual participants an introduction to the theory, concepts, and skills associated with health care interpreting; an appreciation for the complexities of the roles and responsibilities of interpreters in the health care setting; and the skills required to carry out those functions. Participants also have the opportunities to apply concepts and theory through simulated interpreting sessions and scenarios on challenging situations and learn medical terminology (specifically anatomy and physiology and HIV/AIDS terminology). The materials also cover an introduction to California standards for health care interpreters. |
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Connecting Worlds Curriculum
Participant Workbook |
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Evidence-Based Practices in Mental Health Services for Foster Youth
This report reviews mental health services for foster children, other mental health research to identify those most relevant to foster youth and highlight practices that may best meet the needs of our communities. |
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In Harm's Way: Aiding Children Exposed to Trauma
Funded in part by The California Endowment, the report In Harm's Way: Aiding Children Exposed to Trauma focuses on the needs of children exposed to trauma, strategies for early identification and intervention, and ensuring the provision of timely and appropriate services to them and their caregivers. |
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Language Services for Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results of a National Survey of Internal Medicine Physicians
Fifty-two million people speak a language other than English at home. Estimates of the number of people with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) range from 11 million to 21 million people. To determine whether internal medicine practices of members of the American College of Physicians provide language services and to better ensure effective communication for LEP patients, the College conducted a survey of its members during late 2006. This study examines the results of a national survey and was supported by The California Endowment. |
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Principles and Recommended Standards for Cultural Competence Education of Health Care Professionals - 2003
In support of The Endowment's Cultural Competence program, this report provides guidance on content, training methods and modalities, evaluation and qualifications of teachers and trainers. These principles and standards are designed to accompany the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care (CLAS) standards, adopted by the Office of Minority Health. |
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Resources in Cultural Competence Education for Health Care Professionals - 2003
Meant to serve as a companion piece to Principles and Recommended Standards for Cultural Competence Education of Health Care Professionals and A Manager's Guide to Cultural Competence Education for Health Care Professionals, this report is designed to assist health care professionals in their efforts to provide culturally appropriate education with the goal of contributing to the overall improvement in the quality of health care for all consumers. |
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Second Language and Cultural Competency Training for Continuing Medical Education Credit
The purpose of this environmental scan is to help The California Endowment and the Medical Board of California to assess ways to improve patient health access, quality and outcomes through physician second language proficiency and cultural competency Continuing Medical Education (CME), as mandated by the Cultural and Linguistic Competency of Physicians Act of 2003 (AB 801) and AB 1195 of 2005. |
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The Multicultural Health Series
Funded by The California Endowment and Kaiser Permanente, this collection of 10 video (and DVD) case studies and training materials was designed for health care professionals who work with ethnically and culturally diverse populations. The curriculum is meant to educate providers about the meaning and importance of cultural competence in health care.
Each video case study is accompanied by facilitator notes and participant handouts. A background section provides an information context for the situations portrayed in the video. |
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