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Cultural Competence
Cultural competence is the ability of a person to effectively interact, work, and develop meaningful relationships with people of various cultural backgrounds. Cultural background can include the beliefs, customs, and behaviors of people from various groups. Gaining cultural competence is a lifelong process of increasing self-awareness, developing social skills and behaviors around diversity, and gaining the ability to advocate for others. It goes beyond tolerance, which implies that one is simply willing to overlook differences. Instead, it includes recognizing and respecting diversity through our words and actions in all contexts. (NebGuide, Nebraska Extension, Issued February 2016)
- A Resource Guide to Respond to Disparities in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: This guide was developed by the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC). It provides information about collaborative approaches for Developmental Disabilities Councils, Protection and Advocacy Programs, and University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities.
- Advancing Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Where is your Developmental Disabilities Council on the Journey?: From the Oklahoma DD Council.
- Black Lives Matter: A Call for Justice and Reform: The Outreach Committee and the Ohio Developmental Disabilities Council issued a statement in response to the need to address racism and disability in all aspects of our communities.
- Bringing Cultural Diversity and Linguistic Competency to Our Work: From the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities.
- Connections Between Racism and Health: Health Policy Brief from the Health Institute of Ohio.
- Cultural and Linguistic Competence Policy Assessment: Information on analyzing policies, including definitions and questions to guide policy work.
- Cultural Misconceptions about Deaf People and the Challenge for the Courts: From the Ohio Supreme Court.
- Equity in Special Education - Disproportionality: The Ohio Department of Education looks at ways to address significant disproportionality in Ohio. Disproportionality is the overrepresentation of students from any racial group in identification for special education, placement in more restrictive educational settings or disciplinary actions.
- Mental Health and Addiction Issues in the LGBTQ+ Community: Informative article from Healthy Life Recovery.
- National Center of Cultural Competence: The Center provides information and online, on-demand trainings 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.
- Paving the Way: A Toolkit for Assessing & Advancing Cultural & Linguistic Competency: From the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council.
- Policing and Racial Injustice: A Disability Rights Perspective: A report from Disability Rights Ohio that highlights unjust policing in BIPOC communities which disproportionately affects people with disabilities.
- Racism Destroyed in One Minute: A video that takes a deep look into a person's thought process and racism.
- ReachOut e-Diversity News - August 2020 Edition: The articles in this edition of the Ohio DD Council's outreach newsletter focus on four different perspectives and approaches to address issues that are a result of the lack of diversity, equity and inclusion. In other words, the lack of cultural competency.
- Self-Determination Cultural Differences in Perception and Practice: An article that discusses how culture can impact the concept of self-determination.
- Talking About Race: A conversation guide developed by the Smithsonian.
- The Cultural and Linguistic Competence Assessment for Disability Organizations: From the National Center for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University.
- The Impact of Racial Trauma in Behavioral Health: Presentation materials from Project LIFT
- What Do NCI Data Tell Us About Significant Racial & Ethnic Disparities Across Quality of Life & Health Domains?
Cultural Diversity and Inclusion
- 89 Racial Equity Resources for Healthcare, Education, and Communities: List of resources from Fast Online Masters.
- Advancing Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Where is your Developmental Disabilities Council on the Journey?: From the Oklahoma DD Council.
- Advancing Equity in the Current Climate: Harnessing the Role of DD Councils: PowerPoint presentation from the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence and other presenters.
- Bringing Cultural Diversity and Linguistic Competency to Our Work: From the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities
- Considerations to Improve Services for Black/African American Individuals with Disabilities and Mental Health Concerns: From the MH/DD National Training Center.
- Cross-Disability and Culturally Diverse Leadership Coalitions: Strategies and Resources for DD Councils: A summary of responses from a survey to identify DD Councils’ needs in relation to supporting the mandate of outreach to the un- and under-served and gather successful strategies and resources to share.
- Culture Brokering: Outreach and Engagement to Diverse Communites: A presentation from Joshuaa D. Allison-Burbank, M.A., CCC-SLP KU from the Center on Developmental Disabilities Lawrence, Kansas.
- Cultural Diversity in Disability & Mental Health Services: Recorded webinar from the MH/DD National Training Center.
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Multicultural Populations It Affects: From the MH/DD National Training Center.
- NCAPPS Shorts: Culture and Person-Centered Practices: In a series of short videos, community members from the National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems (NCAPPS) share their thoughts on how their racial and cultural identities shape their expectations and views of support systems.
- Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit: Form the Association of University Centers on Disabilities.
- Equity in the Center – Race, Equity and Disability: A webinar video from RespectAbility and Kerrien Suarez, Executive Dir. of Equity in the Center talk about how race, equity and disability provides structural ways that organizations can think about and advance diversity/equity “within” organizations and how to advocate for the same equities “outside” of organizations.
- Families Voices United to End Racism Against Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) and their Families, aka FamU: A project of the Family Voices organization. It was formed as a network after the murder of George Floyd and countless other Black lives.
- Multicultural Program for Families of Children and Youth with Disabilities: Recorded webinar that introduces families and professionals to a panel of specialists supporting the needs and strengths of our global community through the Ohio Coalition for the Education of Children with Disabilities (OCECD)’s Multicultural/Multilingual Program.
- National Center of Cultural Competence: The Center provides information and online, on-demand trainings 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.
- Paving the Way: A Toolkit for Assessing & Advancing Cultural & Linguistic Competency: From the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council.
- Self-Determination Cultural Differences in Perception and Practice: An article that discusses how culture can impact the concept of self-determination.
- The Cultural and Linguistic Competence Assessment for Disability Organizations: From the National Center for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University.
- Unserved/Underserved Populations Outreach Outcomes Evaluation Report: An evaluation report of the Ohio DD Council's outreach outcomes achieved from 2002 to 2016 as a result of Council's focus on outreach to unserved/underserved individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in Ohio. The report highlights ten targeted grants, defines operational best practices, details benchmarks for other state councils; and determines how best to move forward.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health: The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities. They offer many resources, including free online training about cultural competency.
- What is Cultural Brokering?: From the University of Kansas Center on Developmental Disabilities.
Employment
Health Issues
Language
Laws
- Title VI – Civil Rights Act of 1964: A fact sheet about Title VI - Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs, and National Origin Discrimination with regard to provisions related to language access.
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