“The CLAS Challenge: Implementing the CLAS Guidelines”
National Standards
for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care
by
Content description:
The goal of this session is to increase the knowledge and awareness of health
care and social service providers to the collective set of CLAS mandates,
guidelines, and recommendations issued by the HHS Office of Minority Health
intended to inform, guide, and facilitate required and recommended practices
related to culturally and linguistically appropriate health services.
This
session will provide an overview with recommendations for healthcare
organizations becoming a culturally competent organization and further, in providing
culturally competent service delivery at all levels of the organization’s
outputs.
Intended
audience: clinicians, case managers,
service representatives, accreditation and credentialing agencies, advocates,
educators, policy makers, community agencies and the health care community in
general
Objectives:
·
Brief
analytical overview of 14 CLAS recommendations for assuring cultural competence
in health care.
·
Provide a
framework for guiding implementation of culturally responsive health services
and organizational structures.
·
Ultimately, the
aim of the standards is to contribute to the elimination of racial and ethnic
health disparities and to improve the health of all Americans.
·
Provide
guidance to other resources and multicultural health best practices.
Teaching Strategies:
Powerpoint outline, case examples, hand-outs