Cultural Awareness and Health Equity

 
Cultural Awareness and Health Equity resources developed by the RCHC:

• A Process Guide for Making Coaltions Representative: Dowload it by clicking here.
• Boston Area Cultural Competency Resources: A list of local resources to help you with your cultural awareness and health equity initiatives.  Download it by clicking here.

Cultural Awareness and Health Equity resources available in our library:

• Cultural competence in health education and health promotion, 2008 (Book)
• The spirit of culture : applying cultural competency to strength-based youth development, 2000 (Book)
• Quality health services for Hispanics : the cultural competency component, 2002 (Book)
• Unnatural Causes, 2008 (DVD)
• CriticalMASS toolkit: Taking Community ACTION on Health Disparities. Find this in our library or request your own copy here.  

Cultural Awareness and Health Equity resources on the web:

• Summit Health Institute for Research and Education (SHIRE) has many free resources for people working to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities, including a guide for coalition building among communities of color.  See: http://www.shireinc.org/reports.htm

• One of our favorite tools for starting conversations about the many types of diversity, the "Dimensions of Diversity Wheel" can be found at http://www.diversityhotwire.com/leaders_toolkit/toolkit/definition1.html.

• The Office of Minority Health, part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, has many resources, inlcluding the CLAS (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services) Standards.  These standards are made for health care organizations, but can be useful in helping other organizations and groups think about ways to make their services more culturally and linguistically appropriate. See: http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=15 

• Making CLAS Happen; Six Areas for Action from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is a guide to help public health organizations and agencies provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services. The document is available at: http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=7&L0=Home&L1=Provider&L2=Guidelines+and+Resources&L3=Guidelines+for+Services+%26+Planning&L4=Health+Systems+%26+Workforce+Development&L5=Health+Equity&L6=Culturally+and+Linguistically+Appropriate+Services+(CLAS)+Initiative&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=dph_health_equity_p_clas_happen&csid=Eeohhs2 

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