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Fifth National Conference on
Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations

Building the Essential Link between Quality, Cultural Competence, and Disparities Reduction

October 17-20, 2006
Renaissance Seattle Hotel, 515 Madison Street, Seattle, Washington

Presented by
Drexel University School of Public Health Center for Health Equality

Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care
US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health

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Preconference Skills-Building Workshops
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

These three-hour workshops will offer the opportunity to participate in small, intensive training sessions. Workshops will be team-taught by experts from around the country, and participants will learn specific techniques and receive informational materials to use in their own work settings. Registration is limited to 30 participants per workshop. Lunch will be served.

A-Workshops will run simultaneously from 9:00am-12 noon.
B-Workshops
will run simultaneously from 1:30-4:30pm.
C-Workshop
is a full-day workshop.

Use the main registration form to sign-up. Registration will be limited according to the requirements set by each presenter.

Click on each title for full details about the session.

Tuesday 10/17/06 - Preconference Intensive Training Sessions

Morning Sessions (9:00am-12noon)

A-1: Facilitating use of interpreters as cultural mediators and cultural trainers for health care providers

A-2:Growing Our Own: Reducing disparities in quality care through culturally and linguistically competent workforce training

A-3: Eliminating health disparities through medical education: a hands-on for building and enhancing your curriculum

A-4: Using an Organizational Development Model as a roadmap to incorporating culturally competent care at a systems level

A-5: Finding ways to pay for and establish language assistance services

Afternoon sessions (1:30pm-4:30pm)

B-1: A comprehensive and multifaceted approach in redesigning Interpreter Services in a large public hospital system and professional and team development techniques for interpreter staff

B-2: Responding to cross-cultural conflict using the Intercultural Conflict Assessment Inventory

B-3: A teaching guide to methodology in cross-cultural care: case-based illustrations of clinical and ethical fundamentals in culturally competent care

B-4: Cultural Competence in Health Care: A Train-the-trainers

B-5: Reaching your Audience: Developing messages and working with the media to address racial/ethnic disparities

Full-day session (9:00pm-4:30pm)

C: Online Training on Cultural Competency: Experience the Office of Minority Health Cultural Competency Online Modules

 

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