Cultural Competency Training

for

Medical and Mental Healthcare Professionals

Sponsored by the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Council

Department of Human Services

Overview

As our society becomes more diverse and global, it is imperative that medical and mental healthcare professionals provide services that are patient centered and culturally sensitive. Statistics has proven that cultural insensitivity leads to alarming health disparities that are preventable.

The Cultural Competency Training for Medical and Mental Healthcare Professionals will provide training in Clinical, Systemic, and Organizational Cultural Competencies to address this need. The purpose of these trainings is to ultimately eliminate health disparities by improving the quality of care within healthcare systems.

To do this we are focusing our trainings on using patient centered techniques that are culturally competent. These trainings will be administered in a didactic and practical format. In the didactic portion of the training, participants will receive a comprehensive instruction on using intercultural humility and intercultural sensitivity to develop relationships and communicate effectively with patients cross-culturally. In the practical portion of the training, the participants will experience scenarios that will allow them to employ the skills they learned in the didactic portion of the training. In the last segment of the training, participants will have the opportunity to go to workshops to get a snapshot of the training concepts at use in the community.

Training Description

Didactic Portion

Clinical Cultural Competency

- Learn strategies to become culturally sensitive.

- Empowering the patients to be active partners of their healthcare team.

- Allow the patient to negotiate their cultural beliefs/behaviors/abilities into their healthcare plan.

Systemic Cultural Competency

- Assessing the cultural competence of internal policy, rules, regulations and practices.

Organizational Cultural Competency

- Integrating cross-cultural representation and practice within the organization.

Practical Portion

Case Studies

- Participants will have the opportunity to review case studies and identify needs for Clinical, Systemic, and Organizational Cultural Competency skills.

Mock Scenarios

- Participants will have the opportunity to apply Clinical, Systemic, and Organization Cultural Competency skills.

Workshop

- Participants will have the opportunity to see the use of the training concepts in the community by Health Ecwiti (Equity) Champions.

When

September 07, 2017 9:00 am - 10:00am

Registration

Training Deadline for Registration

April 28, 2016 April 14, 2016 Rescheduled for June 13, 2016

September 12, 2016 September 10, 2016

August 24, 2017 September 7, 2017

Please click here to register for one of the trainings above.

Contact Us

If you have any question, commets or concerns, please contact us via phone 267-536-9834 or email at ecwitigroup@gmail.com