Building Cultural Competent Organizations
Community Toolbox provides information on understanding culture and diversity, how to strengthen multicultural collaboration, and spirituality and community building in their chapter Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World. A culturally competent organization brings together knowledge about different groups of people -- and transforms it into standards, policies, and practices that make everything work.
Improving Cultural Competence – KAP Keys for Clinicians
KAP Keys were developed to accompany the Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). These KAP Keys are based entirely on TIP 59 and are designed to meet the needs of the busy clinician for concise, easily accessed “how-to” information.
TIP 59: Improving Cultural Competence
A Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIP) developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. TIPs are best practice guidelines for the treatment of substance use disorders.
Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources: A collaboration of the NN/LM Consumer Outreach
Health Information in Multiple Languages
Health information in languages other than English from MedlinePlus.gov
HealthReach is a national collaborative partnership that has created a resource of quality multilingual, multicultural public health information for those working with or providing care to individuals with limited English proficiency.
Reaching People in Multiple Languages
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities offers this portal for those who work with health disparity populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) to help improve language access to health information produced by NIH and other federal agencies.
EthnoMed is Harborview Medical Center's ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups. Information is specific to groups in the Seattle area, but much of the cultural and health information is of interest and applicable in other geographic areas
Office of Refugee Resettlement – Refugee Arrival Data
ORR provides the option to view refugee arrival data sorted by country of origin and state of initial resettlement in the United States.
American Family Physician article highlighting some of the healthcare needs and challenges refugees face, even after resettlement in the United States. The purpose of this article is to provide primary care physicians with a guide to some of the common issues that arise when caring for refugee patients.
Rural Health Information Hub contains information on what health concerns that put farmworkers and their families at especially high risk due to the physically demanding and intensive nature of their work.
The Office of Immigration Statistics – Refugees and Asylees Flow Reports
IOIS Annual Flow Reports describe the numbers and demographic profiles of persons admitted to the United States as refugees, and those applying for and granted asylum status during a given fiscal year.