Are you interested in learning more about cultural competency
and utilizing
cultural competency resources to best fit your organizational needs?
The Southeastern Health
Equity Council (SHEC) released their Cultural Competency Resource Guide last
fall 2015. This guide was comprised of resources, trainers, institutions and
publications about cultural and linguistic competency that can be shared with
the 10 Regional Health Equity Councils (RHECs), stakeholders and partners to
help address cultural barriers with health care systems. Additionally, this
guide includes important terms for members of the SHEC to become familiar
with as the SHEC develops a common language around cultural competency. To
view the resource guide, visit: http://region4.npa-rhec.org/in-the-spotlight/resourceguidewhitepaper.
To follow-up with the release
of the Cultural Competency Resource Guide, the SHEC will be hosting three
webinars in various regions of the country. The webinars will include
speakers from organizations which focus on cultural competency. Upon
completion of this webinar, the participant will be able to accomplish the
following from the specific organizational perspective:
1. Define cultural
competency;
2. Describe the diversity within
the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community;
3. Explain the relationships
among culture, language and health within the AAPI community; and
4. Identify cultural competency
assessment and evaluation tools.
The focus of the webinar will
be the Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc. and it will cover
immigrants and refugees, with a focus on the AAPI community in Georgia.
DATE:
July 28, 2016
TIME: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
SPEAKERS:
Moderators:
Bettina Byrd‐Giles, Chief Executive Officer, The
Bethesda Life Center, Inc.
& Lynette
M. Gibson, Associate Professor and Director of Research in Nursing,
University of South Carolina Upstate Mary Black School of Nursing
Presenter: Victoria
Huynh, Vice President of the Center for Pan Asian Community Services
Center for Pan Asian
Community Services (CPACS) is a private nonprofit social service agency with
a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Established in 1980, CPACS is the still the largest and longest standing
non-profit with 12 different departments serving the immigrant and refugee
communities in Georgia and in the Southeast. Our mission is to promote
self-sufficiency and equity for immigrants, refugees, and the underprivileged
through comprehensive health and social services, capacity building, and
advocacy
The
Southeastern
Health Equity Council (SHEC) is one of 10
regional health equity councils formed in 2011, as a part of the National
Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA). The NPA is a national
movement with the mission to improve the effectiveness of programs that
target the elimination of health disparities through coordination of leaders,
partners, and stakeholders that are committed to action. The SHEC is a
coalition of leaders and health disparities experts representing several
sectors and the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The SHEC envisions a
region free of disparities in health and healthcare, where all people attain
the highest level of health.
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If the
registration link does not work, please copy the entire link and paste it
into your web browser. For webinar‐specific questions,
contact the moderator at csantos@explorepsa
com
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