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Bridging the Gap Interpreter Training
Monday, February 22, 2010 - Friday, February 26, 2010
Bridging the Gap Training of Trainers
Monday, April 12, 2010 - Friday, April 16, 2010
National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations
Monday, October 18, 2010 - Thursday, October 21, 2010
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CCHCP at the International Medical Interpreter Association (IMIA) Conference
Ira SenGupta and Rose Long presented at the recently concluded 2009 Annual Conference of the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) on Sunday, Oct 11 in Boston, MA. Ms. SenGupta spoke on Language Access' Role in Recruitment and Retention in Cancer Clinical Trials.
Rose Long presented on Language Access and its Role in Environmental Justice.
, 10/12/2009 2009 Symposium of the National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter
Ira SenGupta presented the keynote speech -From Cultural Bump to Cultural Congruence: Enhancing Cultural Competence in Health and Human Services- at the recently concluded 2009 Symposium of the National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter in Des Moines. The theme of the annual symposium was -Growth, Change, and Competency in a Culturally Diverse World. About 300 social workers attended the meeting ON April 17, 2009 ably coordinated by Kelli Soyer, Executive Director of NASW, Iowa Chapter.
CCHCP, 06/01/2009 CCHCP Presented at National WIC Association's 26th Annual Conference
Ira SenGupta, Executive Director, recently presented on Cultural Competency and Working Effectively with Interpreters at the 26th Annual Conference of the National WIC Association in Nashville, Tennessee. A rich diversity of people access WIC (Women, Infant and Children) services bringing with them worldviews and approaches to diet and nutrition, pregnancy, breastfeeding, alcohol and drug use, family planning, and healthcare that may be different from the WIC staff who serve them. More than 900 WIC staff and administrators attended the conference on May 24 to 27 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville.
CCHCP, 06/17/2009 Bridging the Gap Training at the Alaska Immigration Justice Project
On March 9 to 13, 2009, Rose Long, Director of the Bridging the Gap (BTG) Interpreter Training Program at CCHCP, presented the week-long training to 23 participants. The class was a very diverse group, languages represented were Laotian, Yup'ik, Spanish, Tagalog, Arabic, Korean, Nuer, Russian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Portuguese, and Mandarin. Barb Jacobs, Program Manager of the Language Interpreter Center (LIC) of the Alaska Immigration Justice Project (AIJP)successfully coordinated this training. In 2007, the Municipality of Anchorage awarded the Mayor's Community & Non-profit Organization Diversity Award to AIJP. AIJP is dedicated to protecting the human rights of all Alaskans by providing comprehensive immigration legal services and language interpreter services throughout Alaska. Robin Bronen is the Executive Director.
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Cultural Competency Programs --> Introduction to CC What is cultural competence? - "Cultural competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system or agency or among professionals that enable effective interactions in a cross-cultural framework."
T. Cross, et.al., 1989
- "Cultural Competency is the ability of individuals and systems to respond respectfully and effectively to people of all cultures, classes, races, ethnic backgrounds and religions in a manner that recognizes, affirms, and values the cultural differences and similarities and the worth of individuals, families, and communities and protects and preserves the dignity of each."
Seattle King County Dept of Public Health, 1994
- "Cultural competence involves recognition and respect for differences among patients in terms of their values, expectations, and experiences with health care, while at the same time recognizing the culture-based practices and dictates of organized medicine, and the values, expectations, and experiences of the providers who practice it. Culturally competent care becomes possible only with the skillful management of the interplay between these elements which make up a medical encounter, and determine the points of access or barrier at the institutional level."
CCHCP's Cultural Competency Curriculum, 1999 CCHCP approaches the issue of cultural competence from a unique perspective which acknowledges its complex, systemic nature. CCHCP's approach places culture within the context of an interwoven network of relationships--between language and tradition, tradition and history, history and economics, etc. Consequently, the work of CCHCP has substantively differed from that of most organizations in the field that tend to deal only with pieces of the puzzle of cultural competence. As the diversity of the populations that we serve continues to grow, the importance of cultural competency or "cultural and linguistic appropriateness" in the effective delivery of health and social services is undeniable. In the climate of managed care and federal cutbacks in funding of services, the pursuit of culturally competent care has become a business imperative. We believe that participants in our trainings need to examine their own cultural values and evaluate their interpersonal strengths and weaknesses. They also need to recognize that differences in language, age, culture, socio economic status, political and religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and life experience add challenging dimensions to the dynamics of cross cultural interactions.
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