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Culturally Competent Care Tools

The Office of Minority Health Resource Center (http://www.omhrc.gov/omhrc/index.htm) serves as a national resource and referral service on minority health issues. The center collects and distributes information on a wide variety of health topics, including substance abuse, cancer, heart disease, violence, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and infant mortality. The Resource Center also facilitates the exchange of information on minority health issues. Unlike a clearinghouse, OMH-RC offers customized database searches, publications, mailing lists, referrals, and more regarding American Indian and Alaska Native, African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Latino populations. The OMHRC can be contacted toll free at 1-800-444-6472 to request publications, articles, and database searches on minority health topics.

The Center for the Health Professions (http://www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/home.html)
The Center for the Health Professionsat the University of California, San Francisco develops programs and resources addressing a range of issues that impact the health care system and workforce in California and nationwide, including: 1) supply and distribution; 2) skills and training; 3) cultural competency and diversity; and 4) leadership, partnership, and vision.

Diversity Rx
(http://www.diversityrx.org)
Diversity Rx is a website that promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.

The National Center for Cultural Competence (http://gucchd.georgetown.edu//nccc)aims to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems. Part of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, one of the Center's most recent products is a Cultural Competence Health Practitioner Self-Assessment.

The Geriatric Depression Scale (http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/GDS.html) is available in 30 languages and is available in the public domain at the website cited below:

Health Care Links

• California DHS: Multicultural Health
• Center for Cross Cultural Health (CCCH)
• Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP)
• EthnoMed Home Page (Ethnic Medicine Information)
• Office for Civil Rights, HHS
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• Multicultural Health Clearinghouse
• Health & Hospitals Corp. - Multi-Cultural Services, New York
• U.S. Food & Drug Administration  Easy-to-Read Publications--Spanish Brochures

General Diversity Links

• Department of the Interior Office for Equal Opportunity
• Diversity and Ethnic Studies: Websites & Guides
• Diversity Database (University of Maryland)
• Diversity Training University International
• Diversity World
• Diversity Central
• DiversityStore.com- Multicultural Education, Hispanic Heritage Month and Black History Month
• Electronic Resources on Diversity
• Institute for Diversity In Health Management
• Korean Cultural Service
• Diversity Calendar (University of Kansas Medical Center)
• Census 2000: The Geography of US Diversity
• Outright Speakers & Talent Bureau (LGBT Speakers)
• The Fourth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality