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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
- Developing Multicultural Organizational Structure (.ppt)
- Guide to Family Driven Care
- Strategies for Building Multicultural Competence in Mental Health
- The Cultural Relevance of Community Support Programs
Concepcion Barrio, Ph.D. - National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors: Position Statement on Culturally Competent and Linguistically Appropriate Mental Health Services
INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES
- AUSTRALIA
- UK
- Culturally Appropriate Care Commissioning Strategy for Minority Ethnic Groups Chapter 5 (page 15) Cross Cultural Understanding - useful for inpatient care
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
- A Quick Guide to Phrases
- 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
- CulturedMed to facilitate the provision of culturally competent healthcare to refugees and immigrants worldwide
- Using e-Health to Enable Culturally Appropriate Mental Healthcare in Rural Areas
- Promoting and Supporting Culturally Appropriate Children’s Mental Health Services
- School Based Services - Culturally Competent Mental Health Services in the Schools: Tips for Teachers
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
- Montefiore Medical Center: Culturally Competent Services/ Bronx, New York Culturally Competent Mental Health Care Authors: Mark Winiarski, Emily Beckett and Maria Caban
- Creating Culturally Competent Mental Health Systems for Latinos: Perspectives from an Expert Panel
- 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)

