Cultural competency

Cultural competency & Counselling training

British Columbia

Cultural Competency Assessment Tool
http://www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/publications/cultural_competency/assessment_tool/tool_index1.htm
Principles of Cultural Competence; Areas of Impact

Defining Cultural Competence
http://www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/publications/cultural_competency/contents_1.htm
Provides a framework for our cultural competency goals.

University of British Columbia

Introduction to Cultural Competence
http://www.health-disciplines.ubc.ca/DHCC/prof/culture1.pdf
Division of Health Care Communication

Simon Fraser University

Intercultural Communication and Diversity Information Resources
http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/subjectguides/diver/intercultural/intercultural.htm
This guide has been created to assist practioners in any field learn about "intercultural communication" and how to apply its principles within their own work setting.

Queens University

Immigrant Education
http://educ.queensu.ca/~profimmi
These resources have been prepared to provide prospective educators an informational, conceptual, and research-based foundation for addressing the multidimensional and diverse challenges confronting the immigrant student population.

University of Toronto

Cultural Competency
http://www.phs.utoronto.ca/cultural_competency/introduction_3.htm
Strategies for the inclusion of diversity issues in curriculum, selected materials for personal reflection on cultural and racial diversity.

Settlement.org Ontario

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide - Introduction
http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?passed_lang=EN&doc_id=1003507
This guide reflects a growing awareness over the last decade that settlement work is a profession demanding specialized expertise. This resource is an attempt to describe the dimensions of settlement work and to provide tools that can be used to train workers to be effective settlement counsellors.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide
http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?passed_lang=EN&doc_id=1003494
To describe the dimensions of settlement work and to provide tools that can be used to train workers to be effective settlement counsellors - 2000.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide - Chapter 3: The Training Needs of Settlement Counsellors http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?passed_lang=EN&doc_id=1003497
This section focuses on the types of training that settlement counsellors need to do their jobs effectively.

Professional Education and Training (PET) Project for ISAP Funded Settlement Workers http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?passed_lang=EN&doc_id=1002336
Individual and In-House Group training opportunities for the year 2006/2007 for ISAP funded settlement workers under the OCASI Professional Education and Training (PET) project.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide - Part III: Developing the CSISW Course: A Case Example http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?passed_lang=EN&doc_id=1003506
This final part of the guide is for those who want to develop programs for settlement counsellors or other human service workers and are interested in what was learned from the experience of developing the CSISW course.

The EMPIRICAL Initiative
http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_library_detail.asp?passed_lang=EN&doc_id=1003508
The acronym EMPIRICAL, stands for the "Educational and Media Partnership on Immigration and Refugee Issues for Computer-Assisted Learning" - a comprehensive academic programme on migration issues.

MISA Nova Scotia

A Cultural Competence Guide for Primary Health Care Professionals in Nova Scotia
http://www.cbdha.nshealth.ca/bulletinboard/files5016/
Cultural%20Competence%20Guide%20for%20Primary%20
Health%20Care%20Professi.1.pdf
General Information, Cultural Competence; Tools for Primary Health Care Providers; Tools for Management and Administrative Staff in Primary Health Care Settings; Tools for Front-Line Staff in Primary Health Care Settings; Additional Resources

Multicultural Asssociation Nova Scotia

New Skills for a Diverse World
http://www.mans.ns.ca/competency.html
Cultural competence training for progressive organizations.

Cultural Competency Training: Practical Skills for Educators
http://www.mans.ns.ca/teachers.html
Theory and practical application to enhance teaching skills and increase ability to bring a multicultural perspective to the classroom and school.

Canadian Women’s Health Network

Cultural Competence for Registered Nurses
http://www.cwhn.ca/network-reseau/5-1/5-1pg9.html
Laurie Dokis is an Ojibwa woman and registered nurse who was transplanted to the Northern Alberta community of Westview. While there, she saw non-Aboriginal nurses struggling with differences between their own attitudes about health and those of their Aboriginal clients. Both needed to develop more understanding about each other’s ideas about health and community. While not planning to become an expert, she found herself in the role of middle person between the two cultures.

Centretown Community Health Centre Ottawa

Organizational Cultural Competence http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/crcs/pdf/organizational_cultural_competence_21-12-2005.pdf
Self-Assessment Tools for Community Health and Social Service Organizations

Canadian Psychiatric Association

Specific Cultural Competence Axis and Cultural Analysis
http://www.cpa-apc.org/Publications/Archives/CJP/2003/april/lo3.asp
Culturally specific knowledge should inform biological, psychological, social, and spiritual components of the clinical assessment. (Biological difference is a less significant issue in psychotherapy, but it can be an important consideration in pharmacotherapy.)

University of Calgary

Cultural Competency Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/cdi/guides.htm
Self-Assessment Guide for Human Service Organizations: A cultural diversity lens through which human service organizations may come to understand cultural competency, to reflect upon their structures, policies and procedures, and to plan and implement culturally competent practices.

University of Alberta

Cultural Ecology of Food
http://www.afns.ualberta.ca/Courses/Listings/syllabus/NUFS223.pdf
This course will seek to develop an awareness of the many factors that influence food selection, food preparation and dietary habits, at the individual and population level. There will be an emphasis on religion and culture as determinants of food choice. The association between ethnicity and health, as mediated by dietary practice, will be discussed. Students will be introduced to the concept of cultural competency in relation to nutrition counselling.

Community Learning Network

Multiculturalism, immigration
http://www.cln.org/subjects/mc.html
Educational resources

The Learning Partnership (TLP)

Partnerships that strengthen public education in Canada
http://www.thelearningpartnership.ca
Brings together business, education, government, labour, policy makers and the community to encourage students to stay in school; help prepare students for the learning transition from the classroom to the work world.

Canadian Public Health Association

Assessment Toolkit for Bullying, Harassment, and Peer Relations at School http://www.cpha.ca/antibullying/english/backinfo/toolkit.html
In order for a school program to be culturally competent, staff must have the capacity to respond to the unique needs of students and parents whose cultures differ from dominant, mainstream Canada.

Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization

Help at School: Multicultural Liaison Officers
http://www.ociso.org/helpat.htm
To address the settlement and educational needs of immigrant children and their families. MLOs facilitate the provision of cross-cultural information to assist both immigrants and the school system in more than 20 languages.

Northern Alberta Alliance on Race Relations

Interculturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Framework for Educators http://www.naarr.org/pdf/Interculturally%20Responsive%20Framework.pdf
Interculturally responsive teaching and learning is a cluster of attitudes, a skill set and a global understanding that allows all other educational activities to come to fruition.

Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission

Developing cultural competency
http://www.gov.sk.ca/shrc/equity/resources/equityweb_resource_bestpractices.htm
Cultural competency includes appreciation and being comfortable with one's own culture as well the culture of others. SIAST has produced a publication to help those in their organization develop equity skills.

BC Institute Against Family Violence

Assisting Immigrant and Refugee Women Abused by Their Sponsors
http://www.bcifv.org/pubs/Assisting_Immigrant_Women.pdf
Guide for service providers working with any client who is an immigrant or refugee woman; has been sponsored to come to Canada by a partner/fiancé/spouse under the family class sponsorship guidelines; is experiencing abuse by her sponsor; and wants to separate from her sponsor but is at risk of deportation.

USA

Diversity Training University International
http://www.dtui.com/index.html
Knowledge base to become a diversity expert and manage diversity.

Multicultural Health Resources
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/uhs/cultural_competency_resources
Cultural Competency Resources, Translated Health Education Materials

Socio-cultural Competence in ESL Education
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.kyprianides/interesting_helpful_resources
The idea of teaching socio-cultural competence in ESL programs is fairly recent. Moreover, there has been a slow progression of information and teaching materials that would enable ESL educators to understand the importance of this topic and to implement it in their classrooms. Several models and theories have been introduced in recent years to further explain of socio-cultural competence and how the lack of this information can negatively affect ESL students.

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