THE CENTER FOR CROSS-CULTURAL HEALTH
TRAINING UNITS
Unit 1: Overview of Cultural Competency
This unit will address:
What is culture and how does it influence your thoughts and behaviors?
What is cultural competence and what are the benefits of becoming culturally competent?
Models to assess your own cultural competence.
Recommended guidelines and strategies to becoming more culturally competent.
Participants will:
Understand the role of culture in cross-cultural interactions.
Learn to establish effective positive cross-cultural relationships/interactions.
Learn models to become culturally competent.
Learn effective strategies to becoming culturally competent.
Faculty: CCCH Trainer
Time: 2 hours
Cost*: starts at $600.00
Unit 2: Cross-Cultural Communication
This unit will address:
The importance of Cross-Cultural Communication.
Benefits of cross-cultural communication.
Global communication styles.
Non-verbal communication.
Participants will:
Understand how cross-cultural communication influences interactions.
Learn strategies to more effectively establish cross-cultural relationships.
Learn listening and interviewing skills that improve communication.
Faculty: CCCH Trainer
Time: 2 hours
Cost*: starts at $600.00
Unit 3: Working with Interpreters
This unit will address:
Ethical and legal issues regarding medical interpreting.
The interpreter code of ethics.
Guidelines for working with an interpreter.
Resources for accessing interpreters.
Participants will:
Learn the need for trained interpreters.
Learn the ethical and legal issues with medical interpreters.
Acquire skills in working with an interpreter.
Faculty: CCCH Trainer and Consultant
Time: 2 hours
Cost*: starts at $600.00
Unit 4: Culturally-Specific Communities
This unit will address:
One cultural group addressing topics such as: history, religious practices, communication styles, cultural beliefs and practices, and traditional health care practices.
* This unit can be customized to address more specific issues, such as the Hmong culture and Disability or Somali culture and Mental Health. (for pricing see customized training unit).
Participants will:
Gain an increased understanding of the cultural community discussed.
Learn strategies to better serve the community discussed.
Faculty: CCCH Trainer and/or cultural community member
Time: 2 hours
Cost*: starts at $600.00/cultural group
Unit 5: Cross-Cultural Mental Health
This unit will address:
Three cross-cultural factors effecting mental health.
The impact of migration on mental health.
The impact of racism and prejudice on health.
Tools to help increase mental health cross-culturally.
Participants will:
Learn the ways that culture impacts mental health.
Be able to describe some traditional treatment for mental health.
Identify the stages of the refugee process, and its impact on health.
Faculty: CCCH Trainer
Time: 2 hours
Cost*: starts at $600.00
Unit
6: Culture of PovertyThis unit will address:
A framework for understanding and working with individuals and families with low or limited outcomes.
Participants will:
earn poverty statistics and about the poverty process and plight.L
Learn the hidden rules and driving forces for those who live in poverty.
Understand the impact of poverty on communication, family structure, and everyday life.
Learn strategies for systems change to enhance services offered to people living in poverty.
Faculty: CCCH Trainer
Time: 2 hours
Cost*: starts at $600.00
Unit
7: Developmental Model of Intercultural SensitivityThis unit will address:
A framework for understanding the way people respond to cultural differences.
Participants will:
Learn Milton Bennett's Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity
Identify the six stages of increasing sensitivity to cultural differences.
Learn how the model can increase your capacity for intercultural sensitivity.
Learn how to apply this information to increase your effectiveness in working and living in an increasingly global community.
Faculty: CCCH Trainer
Time: 2 hours
Cost*: starts at $600.00
Unit 8: Customized Training Unit
This unit is designed with the client to cover a specific cross-cultural issue.
All core training units can be customized to meet an organizations needs.
Some recent customized trainings have included: Teaching Across Cultures; Cultural Competency - Working with At Risk Families; When Two Cultures Collide - Workforce Issues and Strategies; The CLAS Standards - Navigating Your Way Through; Somali Patients with Disabilities; Hmong Cancer Patients.
Time: Variable
Cost*: starts at $600.00 for 2 hours, plus $300 for consultation time
Past Customized Presentation Topics:
| - The Changing Face of Minnesota: Implications for Health Care |
| - The Changing Face of Minnesota: Implications for Service Delivery |
| - Identifying the Continuum of Assessing and Developing Culturally Appropriate Services in Public Health Work Settings |
| - Introduction to Cross-Cultural Health and Healing Traditions |
| - Cultural Assessment: A Skills Development Tool |
| - The Diversity Advantage: Staying Relevant in a Changing Community |
| - Refugees as People: The Culturally Equipped Provider |
| - Overview of Cultural Competency and Cross-Cultural Communication |
| - Through the Eyes of Others: The Role Culture Plays in Health |
| - Healing, Health and Culture: Through the Eyes of Others |
| - Culturally Appropriate Health Care |
| - Weaving Culture with Care: Serving Different Populations |
| - Culturally Responsive Health Care: Helping Physicians Be Effective with Diverse Patient Populations |
| - Cultural Considerations in Health Care |
| - What Executives Need to Know: The ABCs of Organizational Cultural Competency |
| - What About Race? - Eliminating Disparities in Health |
| - Organizational Cultural Competency: A Cost-Effective Model |
| - Cross-Cultural Leadership: Challenges and Strategies |
| - Issues in Cross-Cultural Management and Supervision |
| - Six Steps Toward Cultural Competence |
| - The Challenges and Rewards of Cross-Cultural Leadership |
| - The Cultural Competency Continuum: A Tool for Accessing the Health of Your Organization |
| - Spirituality and Complimentary Therapies |
*Costs for Training Units vary depending on organizational budget and need, call (651) 209-8999 for a price estimate based on your individual needs. Prices are subject to change, please contact the Center for a pricing estimate for your organization.