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Statewide Multi-Cultural Council
Resources
CLIENTS AND FAMILIES
- Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges in Children and Adolescents Knowledge Path
- STAR Center
Provides support, technical assistance and resources to assist consumer-operated and consumer-helper programs in meeting the needs of under-served populations
DEVELOPING MULTI-CULTURAL PROGRAM STRATEGIES
- Culturally Sensitive Medical Interviewing Tools
- Developing Multicultural Organizational Structure (.ppt)
- Guide to Family Driven Care
- Strategies for Building Multicultural Competence in Mental Health
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors: Position Statement on Culturally Competent and Linguistically Appropriate Mental Health Services
- Community Integration Tools; Cultural Competence in Mental Health
- Cultural Competency in Mental Health Peer-run Programs and Self-help Groups:A Tool to Assess and Enhance Your Services
- Developing Cultural Competence in Disaster Mental Health Programs
INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES
- AUSTRALIA
- UK
NATIONAL CENTERS
- National Center for Cultural Competence
Has Excellent Links On:- Culturally and Linguistically Competent Services
- Resources for Families
- Government Resources
- University Centers, Foundations and Nonprofit Organizations
- Language Access, Communication and Linguistic Competence Accessibility on the Web
- Policies and Guidelines on Aspects of Cultural and Linguistic Competence
- Data and Research Resources
- Reports and Bibliographies
- Nathan Kline Institute Designated a Center of Excellence in Culturally Competent Mental Health
RESEARCH
- Cambridge Health Alliance - mission is to generate innovative mental health services research that impacts policy, practice, and service delivery for multicultural populations. We are comprised of an interdisciplinary group of psychologists, social policy analysts, health economists, psychiatrists, data analysts, sociologists, and other professionals that assist in the research and analysis of Center projects.
- Notes from a Roundtable on Conceptualizing and Measuring Cultural Competence
- Race, Health Care and the Law Speaking Truth to Power! An Early History - African American Mental Health
STAFF DEVELOPMENT - RESOURCES - HANDBOOKS
- Handbook of Multicultural Assessment
- Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry
- Transcultural Psychiatry; When Personality and Culture Clash: The Psychological Distress of Allocentrics in an Individualist Culture and Idiocentrics in a Collectivist Culture
- Using e-Health to Enable Culturally Appropriate Mental Healthcare in Rural Areas
- Promoting and Supporting Culturally Appropriate Children’s Mental Health Services
TARGETED PROGRAM STRATEGIES
- Ethno-Geriatric Care Culturally Appropriate Geriatric Care: Fund of Knowledge
- Community Mental Health Care in the Asia-Pacific Region: Using Current Best-Practice Models to Inform Future Policy
- Providing Culturally Competent Mental Health Care to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- Culturally competent HIV mental health care in minority communities: Promising practices from a Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)/Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) demonstration project
- Culturally Competent Crisis Response Resources
US GOVERNMENT
- 1999 Surgeon General's Report
- Cultural Competence Standards in Managed Care Mental Health Services: Four Underserved/Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups - SAMHSA
- SAMHSA's Resource Center to Promote Acceptance, Dignity and Social Inclusion Associated with Mental Health (ADS Center)
- US Dept. of Heath and Human Services - Think Cultural Health