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Job Opening at CCHCP!
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - Thursday, September 30, 2010
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP) is seeking a Community Outreach and Communications Coordinator.
Seattle, WA
2010 IMIA International Conference on Medical Interpreting
Friday, September 3, 2010 - Sunday, September 5, 2010
Boston, MA
National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations
Monday, October 18, 2010 - Thursday, October 21, 2010
Baltimore, Maryland
Second Annual Trainers' Symposium
Friday, June 10, 2011
9:00 am
- 5:30 pm
Las Vegas, NV
to be announced
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CCHCP presents at the WSSDVS Annual Conference
On June 16, 2010 Nimisha Ghosh Roy provided a two hour training, “Preparing a Culturally Competent Volunteer Corp” at the annual conference of the Washington State Society of Directors of Volunteer Services. Held in Ellensburg, WA, this conference was attended by directors of volunteer services from hospitals across the state of Washington.
CCHCP, 07/26/2010 CCHCP provides the opening keynote at the WithinReach Cultural Competency Retreat
On July 13, 2010 Nimisha Ghosh Roy presented the opening keynote presentation entitled “The Road Map to Cultural Competency: Navigating the Cultural Competency Journey” at the WithinReach Cultural Competency Retreat. The retreat was held at the Fremont Baptist Church in Seattle, WA and was attended by approximately 25 staff members.
CCHCP, 07/26/2010 Environmental Justice Trainings Completed
Rose Long completed 6 trainings on environmental justice for all 70 staff members of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA) in January, 2010. These trainings were the first of two phases of a 6-month project driven by the Agency's ten-year strategic plan. The project strengthens Puget Sound Clean Air Agency's underlying goal of equal access by environmental justice impacted communities through equal representation and meaningful participation. The project with CCHCP was initiated by then PSCAA Executive Director, Dennis McClaren, who has been appointed by President Obama as Regional Director for Region X of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in early February. Interim Director James Nolan is continuing the implementation of phase 2 of this project which is ongoing.
rml, 04/23/2010 CCHCP at the International Medical Interpreter Association (IMIA) Conference
Ira SenGupta and Rose Long presented at the recently concluded 2009 Annual Conference of the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) on Sunday, Oct 11 in Boston, MA. Ms. SenGupta spoke on Language Access' Role in Recruitment and Retention in Cancer Clinical Trials.
Rose Long presented on Language Access and its Role in Environmental Justice.
, 10/12/2009 2009 Symposium of the National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter
Ira SenGupta presented the keynote speech -From Cultural Bump to Cultural Congruence: Enhancing Cultural Competence in Health and Human Services- at the recently concluded 2009 Symposium of the National Association of Social Workers, Iowa Chapter in Des Moines. The theme of the annual symposium was -Growth, Change, and Competency in a Culturally Diverse World. About 300 social workers attended the meeting ON April 17, 2009 ably coordinated by Kelli Soyer, Executive Director of NASW, Iowa Chapter.
CCHCP, 06/01/2009 CCHCP Presented at National WIC Association's 26th Annual Conference
Ira SenGupta, Executive Director, recently presented on Cultural Competency and Working Effectively with Interpreters at the 26th Annual Conference of the National WIC Association in Nashville, Tennessee. A rich diversity of people access WIC (Women, Infant and Children) services bringing with them worldviews and approaches to diet and nutrition, pregnancy, breastfeeding, alcohol and drug use, family planning, and healthcare that may be different from the WIC staff who serve them. More than 900 WIC staff and administrators attended the conference on May 24 to 27 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville.
CCHCP, 06/17/2009 Bridging the Gap Training at the Alaska Immigration Justice Project
On March 9 to 13, 2009, Rose Long, Director of the Bridging the Gap (BTG) Interpreter Training Program at CCHCP, presented the week-long training to 23 participants. The class was a very diverse group, languages represented were Laotian, Yup'ik, Spanish, Tagalog, Arabic, Korean, Nuer, Russian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian, Portuguese, and Mandarin. In 2007, the Municipality of Anchorage awarded the Mayor's Community & Non-profit Organization Diversity Award to AIJP. AIJP is dedicated to protecting the human rights of all Alaskans by providing comprehensive immigration legal services and language interpreter services throughout Alaska.
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Health Disparities Resource Guide Health disparities refer to the differences in health quality and access associated with patient race, ethnicity, income, education, and place of residence. (Source: US Department of Health and Human Services). They are consistently found across a wide range of disease areas and clinical services, and they are found even when clinical factors, such as stage of disease presentation, co-morbidities, age, and severity of disease are taken into account. Organizations Non-Profit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundations' website has a topic area devoted to issues surrounding health disparities. Site offerings include book chapters, charts and data, and research and analysis. University-Based Many nursing schools established Centers for Health Disparity Research. Some of the more prominent ones include: U Penn Nursing' Center for Health Disparities Research
Oregon Health & Science University Center for Health Disparities Research
University of Texas MD Anderson Center for Research on Minority Health Access Project
A research affiliate of Brandeis University, dedicated to improving the health of those most vulnerable through advocacy and technical assistance.
Federal National Center on Minority and Health Disparities (NCMHD) Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities (OMHD) The Office Of Minority Health (OMH) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Dept. of Health
Fact sheet on addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care. CDC 2004 Statement on Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) National Center for Health Statistics (CDC) Publications Reports Hospitals, Language, and Culture: A Snapshot of the Nation, by the Joint Commission The Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States - A 2006 article from PLoS Medicine Newsletters Poverty & Race Research Action Council Journals Diversity and Health, Mary Ann Liebert, quarterly Healthcare Disparities Report, CD Publications, monthly newsletter International journal of global health and Health Disparities, U of N Iowa, semiannual Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, John Hopkins U Press, quarterly Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Springer, quarterly Medical Care Research & Review, Sage, bi-monthly Recommended Books Closing the gap : Solutions to race-based health disparities / Pittz, Will, et al. / Applied Research Center; Northwest Federation of Community Organizations. -- Oakland CA ; Seattle WA: Applied Research Center; Northwest Federation of Community Organizations, 2005 Examining the health disparities research plan of the National Institutes of Health : Unfinished business / Thomson, Gerald E., Ed.; Mitchell, Faith, Ed.; Williams, Monique, Ed. / Committee on the Review and Assessment of the NIH's Strategic Research Plan And Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities, Board on Health Sciences Policy. -- 2006. Minority Populations and Health : An Introduction ot Health Disparities in the United States / LaVeist, Thomas A. -- San Francisco CA: Jossey-Bass, 2005. Reducing racial and ethnic health disparities : Estimating the impact of high health center penetration in low-income communities / Shin, Peter; Jones, Karen; Rosenbaum, Sara. -- Washington DC: The George Washington University, 2003. Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care / Smedley, Brian D, et al. / Institute of Medicine / Washington D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2003. Available online at: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10260&page=R2 Other Related Resources Data Sources International Rescue Committee provides information on some of the most pressing refugee crisis resulting from war and violence. The US Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.
Listserves and Current Awareness The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation publishes weekly e-mails in several specific topics including Health Disparities. Subscription URL: http://www.rwjf.org/services. The Kaiser Family Foundation publishes a Weekly Health Disparities Report at: http://kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_disparities.cfm The Center for Reducing Health Disparities maintains a blog at: http://blog.case.edu/ccrhd/ The American Hospital Association provides health disparity research updates at: http://www.aha.org/aha/resource-center/bibliography/disparities.html PubMed Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Use one or more of these terms when searching the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database of biomedical literature: Prejudice, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Minority Groups, Patient Rights, Vital Statistics, Ethnic Groups, Delivery of Health Care
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