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Walking Across Cultures
Sunday, May 11, 2008
11:30 am
- 1:30 pm
Join CCHCP during the week of May 11 – 17, 2008 for our annual "Walking Across Cultures" event.
Bridging the Gap Training
Monday, June 9, 2008
9:00 am
Medical Interpreter Training - Enroll Now
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Vision Healthcare in every Community, every Community in Healthcare. Mission Recognizing the diversity and the different ways to health, the mission of the Cross Cultural Health Care Program is to serve as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate. Goals - Collaborate with ethnic communities to gain full participation in the health care system.
- Maintain a center for cultural competence to make educational materials available.
- Improve and provide training opportunities for interpreters.
- Provide awareness training programs for providers.
- Collaborate with institutions in outreach to ethnic community members' participation in health careers.
- Provide leadership in the management of effective interpreter services within institutional settings.
- Empower underserved communities through support and advocacy, education, and community development to achieve self-directed access and use of health care resources.
- Undertake and support community-based research and develop models to improve and set standards for cross-cultural health care.
Our Board | President: | Dwight Wheaton II, Esq. | | Secretary: | Pat Dawson M.D., Ph.D. | | Treasurer: | Robert Kaplan, Esq. | | Members: | Tom Byers | | | Kathy Salmonson | | | Karin Anderson | | | Dale Morris |
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Northwest Resource Center Receives OMH Grant
The Office of Minority Health, Region X, has awarded a grant to CCHCP's Resource Center to fund development of an outreach program for health and social services professionals working with minority and underserved populations.
CCHCP, 04/14/2008 CCHCP Executive Director Addresses American Heart Association
CCHCP Executive Director, Ira SenGupta was the closing speaker for the American Heart Association’s ‘Painting the Future’ 2008 Health Strategies Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas in March. She spoke on the topic of ‘The Role of Cultural Competency in Cardiovascular Health’ to over 100 members of the AHA’s leadership from all eight of its national affiliates.
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