Cultural Competency - HHS Resources

HRSA

Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers - Anthology of web-based resources:
https://www.hrsa.gov/cultural-competence/index.html

SAMHSA

Cultural Competence Products and Resources: https://www.samhsa.gov/section-223/cultural-competency/resources

Office of Minority Health (OMH)

• National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (the National CLAS Standards): https://www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/clas

Cultural Competency - External Sources:

Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence: https://nccc.georgetown.edu/
Mission: to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.

EthnoMed: www.ethnomed.org
Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrant and refugee groups. Excellent hands on clinical tools are available to help the practitioner work with and provide health information to recent immigrant and refugee groups.

Professional Resources and Other Links of Interest:

Minority Officers Liaison Committee resources site