“The increasing diversity of the nation brings opportunities and challenges for health care providers, health care systems, and policy makers to create and deliver culturally competent services. Cultural competence is defined as the ability of providers and organizations to effectively deliver health care services that meet the social, cultural,...
National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)
The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.
GWHWI 2015 Speaker Presentations
View the collected presentations from the GW Health Workforce Insitute’s 2015 Speaker Series.
GW Health Workforce Institute (GWHWI)
The GW Health Workforce Institute (GWHWI) was chartered in December 2014 as an university-wide initiative to strengthen health workforce policies in the United States and around the world. View this webinar for more information on the workforce research, education, and events GWHWI has to offer.
NACHC – Recruitment, Onboarding, & Retention Toolkit
This 2015 toolkit discusses common challenges faced by health centers while recruiting and retaining new clinicians and offers techniques and resources for success.
NACHC – UTeam Onboarding Essentials
The University of Virginia and the National Association of Community Health Centers have put together a toolkit for employee onboarding that looks at successful practices and resources used in all stages of the first years of recruitment and retention of new employees.
Nexus – New “Stories from the Nexus” Highlight Practice Transformations
Two “Stories from the Nexus” podcasts detail, in roundtable format, how two health care teams implemented interprofessional care to create change in their practice settings.
Nexus – Amina in the Nexus
Amina in the Nexus is a toolkit providing documents, powerpoints, and videos that depict the potential for interprofessional education and health care through the example of the fictional character, Amina and her health care team.
ADEA – All Together Now: Realizing IPE at Academic Health Centers
This webinar was hosted on August 18, 2015 by the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) as a part of ADEA’s Leading Conversations webinar series. The webinar focuses on barriers to interprofessional education (IPE) implementation and strategies to overcome them from multiple perspectives involved in dental education.
HRSA – NHSC Stories
The Health Resources and Services Administration has created a YouTube channel to compile videos focusing on National Health Service Corps (NHSC) members, programs, and sites.