Education & Training

Cultural Competency - HHS Resources

• Cultural Competence: Culture, Language and Health Literacy
  http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/
• Culture Card: Building Cultural Awareness in work with American Indian/Alaska Native Communities 
  https://store.samhsa.gov/product/American-Indian-and-Alaska-Native-Culture-Card/SMA08-4354
• Developing Cultural Competence in Disaster Mental Health
  https://store.samhsa.gov/product/Developing-Cultural-Competence-in-Disaster-Mental-Health-Programs/SMA03-3828
• Cultural and Linguistic Competency
  https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=1&lvlid=6

Focused website with online courses to develop cultural competence in healthcare

• Web-based Cultural Competency Curriculums for healthcare staff and first responders
  http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org/

Cultural Competency - External Sources

• Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development Oversees the National Center for Cultural Competence: (supported through MCHB-HRSA) to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems
  https://gucchd.georgetown.edu/cultural-competence.php
• 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. Sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, and University of Washington.
• California Brief Multicultural Competency Scale: Multicultural Training Program: Helping MH Practitioners Deliver Culturally Competent Care:
  http://www.sagepub.com/cbmcs/index.htm 

• AIDS Education and Training Centers National Resource Center Cultural Competence Online-Self-Paced Learning
  Cultural Competence in Caring for African Americans with HIV: https://www.aidsetc.org/resource/cultural-competence-caring-african-americans-hiv