TOPIC: Cultural Competence and Related Issues

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packet
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning

Center Briefs

• Diversity Competence for Psychological Practitioners: Eliminating Disparities in Psychological Practices

Newsletter
• Diversity and Professional Competence in Schools... a mental health perspective

Quickfinds
• Diversity, Disparities, and Promoting Health Equitably
• Immigrant Students and Mental Health
• Mental Health in Schools in Other Countries
• Native American Students

Technical Assistance Sampler
• Sexual Minority Student

Programs
• Achieving Diversity: Race-neutral Alternative in American Education
• A Guide to Choosing and Adapting Culturally and Linguistically Competent Health Promotion Materials
• Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators: Rethinking Teacher Education Pedagogy
• Bridging the Cultural Divide in Health Care Settings: The Essential role of Cultural Broker Programs
• Cultural Considerations and Challenges in Response-to-Intervention Models
• Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practice
• "Cultural Competency Guidebook"
• Guidelines Regarding the education and Training of Psychologists for Practice in a Pluralistic Society
• HRSA Providers Guide on Quality Care and Culture
• Research and evaluation on programs for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander Populations
• "Special Challenges of Offering Employment Programs in Culturally Diverse Communities" Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

Disparities
• Addressing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Overrepresentation in Special Education: Guidelines for Parents
• Disparities in mental health treatment in U.S. racial and ethnic minority groups: Implications for psychiatrists
• Disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education: Measuring the problem
• Facing Consequences: An Examination of Racial Discrimination in U.S. Public Schools
• Institute of Medicine Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
• Longitudinal trends in race/ethnic disparities in leading health indicators from adolescence to young adulthood
• Racial and cultural disparities in health and mental health: toward theory and research at community levels
• Racial and Ethnic differences in utilization of mental health services among high-risk youths A. Garland, et al, American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 1336-1343
• Tracking achievement gaps and assessing the impact of NCLB on the gaps. J. Lee.
• Reducing Disparity: Achieving Equity in Behavioral Health Services
• Reducing Disparities Beginning in Early Childhood
• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.
• Knowledge path: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health, Maternal, and Child Health Library

Reports
• African American and Latino Families Face High Rates of Hardship
• Assistance from Education Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency
• Assuring Cultural Competence in Health Care: Recommendations for National Standards and an Outcomes-Focused Research Agenda
• Broadening the Base: School/Community Partnerships Serving Language Minority Students at Risk
• The changing racial and ethnic composition of U.S. Public Schools
• Children of Immigrants: A Statistical Profile
• Children of Immigrant Families
• Closing the Gap: High achievement for students of color
• Cultural and linguistic competence in family supports
• Cultural Competence: A systematic review of health care provider educational interventions
• Cultural Competence and School Mental Health: an issue brief from the School Mental Health Analysis and Action
• Cultural Competence in Serving Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Problems
• "Cultural competence, strengths and outcomes" Vol. 17 (1) of Focal Point
• Culturally competent children's mental health services: Advances & challenges
• Cultural Strengths and Challenges in Implementing a System of Care Model in American Indian Communities
• "Education Levels Rise for Hispanic Immigrants"
• How cultural heritage organizations serve communities
• Latinos in School: Facts and Findings
• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Chapter 2 Overview of Cultural Diversity and Mental Health Services
• Mental health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity - A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
• The New Neighbors: A User's Guide to Data on Immigrants in US Communities
• "Portraits of Four Schools: Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Students and Their Families" Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University
• "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Parental Endorsement of Barriers to Mental Health Services for Youth"
• A Report Card on Comprehensive Equity: Racial Gaps in the Nation's Youth Outcomes
• A Review of Literature on Hispanic/Latino Parent Involvement in K-12 Education.
• "Status and Trends in the Education of Hispanics"
• Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Minorities
• Toward Higher Levels of Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health
• Who's left behind? Immigrant children in high and low LEP schools C. Consentino de Cohen, et al, Urban Institute

General
• Advocates for Youth
• American Psychological Association, Division 17, Counseling Psychology: Guidelines for Multicultural Counseling Proficiency for Education and Training, Research, and Clinical Practice
• Center for Linguistic and Cultural Competence in Healthcare
• Community Toolbox
• Cultural Competency: Measurements as a strategy for moving knowledge into practice in state mental health systems
• Cultural Competency Resource Packet
• Cultural Competence in Practice, National Association of School Psychologists
• Diversity Rx
• Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
• Expanding the Psychology Curriculum: an Annotated bibliography on Diversity in Psychology
• Federal policy for immigrant children: room for common ground
• "Fiesta Educative" to inform and assist Latino families in caring for their children with special needs
• Fostering Diversity
• Foundation for Child Development "Describing Immigrant Communities"
• Immigrant Resource Guide
• Knowledge Path: Spanish-Language Health Resources
• "Latino Youth and the Pathway to College" (2004) Educational Policy Institute and the Pew Hispanic Center
• Meeting the Needs of Latino Youth: Part I: Risk
• Meeting The Needs of Latino Youth: Part II: Resilience
• NASW Standards for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice
• New Research on Minorities and Special Education: Implications for Federal Law and Policy
• Pathways to Tolerance: Student Diversity
• The Fourth R: Responsibility - Ensuring educational excellence through equity and effective school practices
• Reaching all children? Understanding early care and education participation among immigrant families
• Refugee Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Toolkit
• The Cultural Competence Exchange
• The State of Hispanic Girls
• U.S. Department of Education Materials for Spanish Speakers
• Youth Violence Prevention in Latino Communities: A Resource Guide for MCH Professionals

Related Agencies and Websites

• Black Community Crusade for Children
• *Center for Mental Health Services
• Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence
• Department of Health and Human Services: Office of Minority Health
• Diversity Central
• The Equity Center
• Healing Our Nation
• *HRSA Information Center: Spanish Language Publications
• Intercultural Development Research Association
• National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
• National Center for Cultural Competence
• National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems
• National Congress for Hispanic Mental Health
• *National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
• *National Educational Association of Disabled Students
• *National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
• *National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
• *National Institute of Mental Health (Spanish language publications)
• National Multicultural Institute
• North Carolina Division of Social Services
• *Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
• the Pew Hispanic Center
• Quality Education for Minorities
• U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Offices of Minority Health
• U.S. Department of Health an Human Services, Office of Civil Rights

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained through Libraries

• "Assessment of ethnic and linguistic minority children." By Quintana, Stephen M; Castillo, Elisa M; & Zamarripa, Manuel X. (2000). In Shapiro, Edward S; Kratochwill, Thomas R.; et al. Eds Behavioral Assessment in Schools: Theory, Research, and Clinical Foundations (Second Edition). Guilford Press: New York, NY: p. 435-463.
• Cultural Consultation: A Model of Mental Health Service for Multicultural Societies. Kirmayer, L.J., Groleau, d., Guzder, J., Blake, C. Jarvis, E. (2003). Can J Psychiatry 48, 145-153.
• Diversity based psychology: What practitioners and trainers need to know. Manesse, J., Saito, g., & Rodolfa, e. (2004). http://www.psychboard.ca.gov/licensee/diversity-based.pdf
• Educating African American Males: Voices From the Field. Edited by Olatokunbo S. Fashola, Corwin Press, (2005)
• "Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Ethnic Minority Youth." By Huey, Stanley J.; Polo, Antonio J.(2008). In Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 37(1): 262-301.
• "Maintaining focus on cultural competence in early intervention services to linguistically and culturally diverse families." By Conway Madding, Carolyn (2000). In Infant-Toddler Intervention, 10(1): p. 9-18.
• "Multicultural competence: Criteria and case examples." By Hansen, N.D., Peppitone-Arreola-Rockwell, F., & Greene, A.F. (2000). In Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 31, 625-660
• "Multicultural education and the civic duties of schools." By Patrick, John J. (2000). In Wraga, William G; Hlebowitsh, Peter S.; et al. Eds. Research Review for School Leaders, Volume III. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, NJ.
• "Personal and cultural identity."  By Lewis, Catherine C. (2000). In Human Development, 43(1): p. 24-26.
• Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools.  Nieto, S. Ed. (2000) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Mahwah, NJ.
• School-based mental health services: Creating comprehensive and culturally specific programs. Nastasi, B.K. More, r., & Varjas, K. (2004). Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association
• "Self-Determination and Cultural Empowerment: Reader histories reveal learning and adaptation strategies." By Van Horn, Leigh (2000). In The Urban Review 32(2): p. 177-185.
• "Teaching gender and multicultural awareness: Resources for the psychology classroom." By Bronstein, P. & Quina, K. (2003)Washington, DC: American Psychological Assn.
• "The Principal's role in creating inclusive schools for diverse students: A review of normative, empirical, and critical literature on the practice of educational administration." By Riehl, Carolyn J. (2000). In Review of Educational Research, 70(1): p. 55-81.




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