Are you interested in learning more about cultural competency and utilizing
cultural competency resources to best fit your organizational needs?
The Southeastern Health Equity Council (SHEC) released their Cultural Competency Resource Guide last fall 2015. This guide was comprised of resources, trainers, institutions, and publications about cultural and linguistic competency that can be shared with the 10 Regional Health Equity Councils (RHECs), stakeholders and partners to help address cultural barriers with health care systems. Additionally, this guide includes important terms for members of the SHEC to become familiar with as the SHEC develops a common language around cultural competency. To view the resource guide, visit http://region4.npa-rhec.org/in-the-spotlight/resourceguidewhitepaper.
To follow‐up with the release of the Cultural Competency Resource Guide, the SHEC will be hosting three webinars in various regions of the country. The webinars will include speakers from organizations which focus on cultural competency. Upon completion of each webinar, the participant will be able to accomplish the following from the specific organizational perspective: define cultural competency; describe the implementation of cultural competency; discuss ways success is evaluated and describe the specific populations served. The focus of the webinar will be the South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs (SC Commission for Minority Affairs) and it will cover American Indians, African‐Americans, and rural communities in South Carolina.
DATE: April 27, 2016
TIME: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
SPEAKERS:
Moderators: Bettina Byrd‐Giles, Chief Executive Officer, The Bethesda Life Center, Inc.
& Lynette M. Gibson, Associate Professor and Director of Research in Nursing, University of South Carolina Upstate Mary Black School of Nursing
Presenter: Marcy Hayden, Program Coordinator of Native American Affairs, South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs
The SC Commission for Minority Affairs is South Carolina’s only State agency mandated to serve minority populations and address issues related to poverty and socio‐economic deprivation within minority communities. This webinar will spotlight the SC Commission for Minority Affairs and its work with diverse communities and in the areas of cultural and linguistic competency. Additionally, information about South Carolina’s rural and minority populations will be discussed with special emphasis on African‐Americans, Native Americans and communities in poverty.
The Southeastern Health Equity Council (SHEC) is one of 10 regional health equity councils formed in 2011, as a part of the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities (NPA). The NPA is a national movement with the mission to improve the effectiveness of programs that target the elimination of health disparities through coordination of leaders, partners, and stakeholders that are committed to action. The SHEC is a coalition of leaders and health disparities experts representing several sectors and the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The SHEC envisions a region free of disparities in health and healthcare, where all people attain the highest level of health.
1 If the registration link does not work, please copy the entire link and paste it into your web browser. For webinar‐specific questions, contact the moderator at csantos@explorepsa com
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