Sensitive Prevention and Treatment Efforts

Sensitive Prevention and Treatment Efforts

TABLE 2.4 Individual Cultural Assessment
Source: Reprinted with permission from the Committee of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) Multicultural Council.

TABLE 2.5 Organizational Cultural Assessment
Source: Reprinted with permission from the Committee of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) Multicultural Council.

Establish a cultural competence board to help guide the implementation of culturally sensitive prevention and treatment efforts.

Provide ongoing training to staff members.
Individual Assessment of Cultural Competence As a member of the organization, the knowledge you have of yourself and others is important and is reflected in the ways you communicate and interact. The individual assessment instrument in Table 2.4 was developed to assist you in reflecting on and examining your journey toward cultural competence.

The following statements are about you and your cultural beliefs and values as they relate to the organization. Please check the one answer that best describes your response to each of the statements.

Organizational Assessment of Cultural Competence Table 2.5 offers a means of assessing an organization’s cultural competence. Some suggestions for achieving a culturally competent organization include the following:

Sensitive Prevention and Treatment Efforts

Maximize diversity among the workforce.

Involve community representatives in the organization’s planning and quality improvement
meetings.
Develop health materials for the target population written at the appropriate literacy level, in a variety of languages, and with culturally appropriate images—this includes materials such as educational brochures, consent forms, signage, postprocedural directions, and advance directives.

Make onsite interpretation services available when possible, and be sure that all appropriate staff members are educated about how to use telephone interpretation services.

Assess customer satisfaction and clinical outcomes regularly.

Consider the health disparities that exist in your community when planning outreach efforts.

When an individual, organization, or system has implemented change to progress toward cultural competence, the change process should be measured. This is important because it can indicate the progress that has been made and identify areas that are in need of improvement. The measurement process itself can be a catalyst for change.

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