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The following links will be of interest to those committed to cultural competence.
Please note that while we have found these sites helpful in the past, we cannot guarantee their future content nor do we necessarily agree with all their viewpoints.
We encourage you to submit your suggestions for further links. Thank you!
Anti-Racism:
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB), is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation:
http://www.pisab.org/ The Beyond Diversity Resource Center provides comprehensive training and education for those who work together in communities to change the nature and quality of interactions among persons who are different from each other. The Center promotes the exchange of ideas among practitioners and educators in fields related to human relations through conferences, meetings and publications.
http://www.beyonddiversity.org/ Diversity Issues:
The Business Case for Diversity: http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/business-case-for-diversity-recruiting.asp Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity (CHFCD)-Department of Family Medicine
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School: The CHFCD, established in 1997, is dedicated to leadership, advocacy, and excellence in promoting culturally-responsive, quality health care for diverse populations. It has evolved from a program focused primarily on multicultural education and training for health professionals, to an expanded and growing resource for technical assistance, consultation, and research/evaluation services.
http://www2.umdnj.edu/fmedweb/chfcd/index.htm NAMI the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots organization for people with mental illness and their families. Founded in 1979, NAMI has affiliates in every state and in more than 1,100 local communities across the country:
http://www.nami.org/ National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC), at Georgetown University aims to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems. The NCCC has developed a Cultural Competence Health Practitioner Assessment (CCHPA) and many other resources on cultural competence. http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/features/CCHPA.html Office of Minority Health
A Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
This web site offers CME and CEU credit and equips health care professionals with awareness, knowledge, and skills to better treat the increasingly diverse U.S. population they serve. http://cccm.thinkculturalhealth.org Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource
http://www.hrc.org/index.htm Initiative for Decreasing Disparities in Depression
http://www.i-3d.org
http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org/whats_new.asp Minority Women’s Mental Health
This is a website operated by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services and offers information on minority women’s mental health.
http://www.womenshealth.gov/minority/hispanicamerican/mh.com |
