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General CLC Tools

Advancing Cultural Competence	Free online training program in cultural competence. Core classes involve the vital role of cultural competency in healthcare and building structural competence that incorporates a narrative humility approach.
Advancing the Mission: Tools for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion	This toolkit is for advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in organizations.
AUCD Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit	Website with tools to increase diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence for diverse populations, including individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Authenticity of the Client's Voice: Looking Through the Cultural Lens of the Client	Video that looks through the cultural lens of actual clients in a recovery program and addresses how culture affects treatment.
Business Case for Promoting Equity in the Behavioral Health Care System Through Cultural and Lingustic Competency	Document that is part of Ohio's cultural competence plan. The document presents background information regarding cultural and lingustic competence as well as national compliance requirements such as the CLAS Standards. The document then presents a business rationale for cultural and linguistic competence.
Best Practice Highlights for Treating Diverse Patient Populations	Series of videos to help in assessment and treatment of patients from diverse populations.
Bridging the Cultural Divide in Health Care Settings	This is a manual regarding the use of cultural brokers in the healthcare setting.
Building CLC Services to Support Young Children, Their Families, and School Readiness	This site features innovative programs and quality tools for improving cultural and linguistic competence as well as reducing health care disparities for vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic minorities.
Building Culturally Competent Organizations	This toolkit aids in assessing and enhancing cultural competence in your organization or community effort.
C & L Provider Toolkit	This toolkit provides resources for implementing CLC.
Changing Perception: How to Build Cultural Competence and Humility	Webinar that applies a cultural humility and social justice perspective to cultural competency. The webinar addresses unconscious bias and how recognizing it can reuce disparities, while also providing evidence based and informed tools for culturally competent health care delivery.
CLC Podcast	Series of podcasts addressing clinical issues in serving clients of specific diverse populations such as the LGBTQ+ community and the Hispanic/Latino community.
Community Conversations About Mental Health-Information Brief	This information guide is for communities to begin conversations regarding mental health and to develop strategies for their communities.
Conversations on Cultural and Linguistic Competence - Discussion Guides for the Anaheim School District	Discussion guides for CLC conversation designed to assist in framing discussions about CLC and related issues.
Cultural Activation Prompt: Gaining Awareness (Part 1)	Webinar that provides the definition of culture and encourages participants to explore their own cultural identity.
Cultural Awareness Activation Prompt: Gaining Awareness (Part 2)	Second part of a webinar series that looks at using cultural activation prompts in treatment.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence Guidelines for Residential Programs	A guide developed by the National Building Bridges Initiative Cultural and Linguistic Competence Workgroup for residential programs at different developmental states regarding cultural competence.
Cultural Competence Handbook	Sample CLC Handbook that includes CLC Plan and Assessment
Cultural Competence Planning Guide	Example of a CLC planning guide that sites can use to develop a cultural competence process. This guide helps sites set cultural competence goals and implement them.
Cultural Diversity Committee	This Fresno County Behavioral Health Department website contains good examples of CLC policies and procedures.
Cultural Competence for Health Care Providers	This resource manual is for health care providers and offers state specific resources but contains general information.
Cultural Competence Resources	The listing of resources is for professionals and the general public provided by SAMHSA.
Cultural Competency: An Organizational Strategy for High-Performing Delivery Systems	This issue brief shows how culturally competent care aids organizationsprovide care that is equitable, patient centered and of high quality.
Cultural Competency in Mental Health Peer-run Programs and Self-help Groups	This tool was created to help mental health, consumer- operated programs and self-help groups assess their own cultural competency.
Culture and Health - Does My Doctor Know Who I Am?	Podcast that addresses how culture affects mental health and mental health treatment, while discussing the use of the Cultural Formulation Interview.
Dialogos Coumintarios Acerca de Salud Mental- Guia de planificacion	This is a Spanish version of a planning guide for communities and service providers to lead conversations about mental health. English and spansih versions available.
DiversityRx	DiversityRx has a database of hundreds of resources on cross cultural health care, and a directory of organizations that work in this field.
Effective Cross Cultural Communication: An Introduction to Cultural and Linguistic Competency	Primer that discusses the basic concepts of how culture affects communication, the use of person first language, and the CLAS Standards.
Engaging Youth and Families in Mental Health Services	Practice tips and research findings on enganging youth and families of color in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
Enhancing Cultural Competence in Social Service Agencies: A Promising Approach to Serving Diverse Children and Families	This brief provides an overview of cultural competence for organizations serving children and families from diverse ethinc and cultural backgrounds. It makes recommendations regarding potential promising strategies for improving cultural competence.
Equity and Empowerment Lens: A Tool to Create Equitable Policies and Programs	Webinar focusing on improving planning, decision-making, and resource allocation leading to more racially equitable policies.
Equity in Practice: Engaging Youth and Families in a Culturally Competent Manner	Powerpoint presentation that addresses the basics of inequities in child welfare, implicit bias, and their impact on families and youth. It provides the groundwork for providing equitable services.
Guide to Providing Effective Communication and Language Assistance Services	The Think Cultural Health website offers tools and resources that will help individuals and organizations communicate effectively with patients and clients.
Guidelines for Providers of Psychological Services to Ethnic, Lingustic, and Culturally Diverse Populations	Series of guidelines established by the APA to guide practitioners in providing services to diverse individuals.
Health Research and Educational Trust Disparities Toolkit	The Toolkit is a Web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients.
Honing Cultural and Linguistic Competence	A resource for innovative programs and quality tools for improving cultural and linguistic competence as well as reducing health care disparities for vulnerable populations.
Implementing Culture Based Wraparound	This book chapter discusses implememtation of a culture based wraparound system.
Improving Cultural Competence- A Treatment Improvement Protocol	Assists professional care providers and administrators in understanding the role of culture in the delivery of substance abuse and mental health services. Discusses racial, ethnic, and cultural considerations and the core elements of cultural competence.
Improving Cultural Competence KAP Keys for Clinicians	Tip sheets for clinicians to help them improve their cultural competence.
Improving Cultural Competence Quick Guide for Administrators	A guide to help administrators understand and implement organizational cultural competence based on the CLAS Standards.
Looking Through the Cultural Lens of the Provider	Video that discusses how culture affects the views, belief,s and actions of service providers, while looking through the cultural lense of an actual service provider.
Protocol for Culturally Responsive Organizations	Tool designed to assist organizations and granting bodies to assess an organization's practices and commitment to integrating cultural responsiveness.
Race Equity and Inclusion Guide	A guide to help organizations assess the racial equity of their organizations and and their polices and programs.
Recruitment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse School Psychologists	Tip Sheet with strategies for increasing diversity in the workforce of school psychologists
Rural and Remote Practice Settings	Video on using telepsychiatry in rural and remote settings.
Strategies for Diversifying Your Healthcare Workforce: A Toolkit for Healthcare Providers	Toolkit to help organizations increase healthcare workforce diversity.
Sustaining Grassroots Community-Based Programs: A Toolkit for Community and Faith Based Service Providers	Toolkit for sustaining community based programs.
Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide	Tip Sheet on preventing hate and hate crimes
The SBDI Toolkit: A Community Resource for Reducing School-Based Arrests	Toolkit that discuses the values and core elments of school based diversion programs.
Toolkit- Assuring Cultural and Linguistic Competence Among DAS-Funded Prevention Grantees	A compendium of resources, material,s and guides for agenecies serving multicultural and linguistically diverse clients with a focus on additonal services.
Trauma Informed Community Building: A Model for Strengthening Community on Trauma Affected Neighborhoods	A discussion of the trauma-informed Community Building model used in BRIDGE Housing Corp. located in San Francisco, CA.
Use of Telepsychiatry in Cross Cultural Settings	Video providing information on how to use telepsychiatry in cross cultural settings
Using the Cultural Formulation Interview to Support Recovery	Webinar that discusses culture, the importane of cultural assessment, and the use of the Cultural Formulation Inetrview.
Working with Cultural Diversity in Early Psychosis	A clinical guide for practioners to help them work witrh culturally diverse populations, including how to work with diverse families, how to explore the cultural explanatory model of illness and ways to work with intepreters.
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