STAR² Center staff presented at the LPCA’s 32nd Annual Continuing Education Conference on October 9, 2015. The Learning Lab, Using Data to Understand and Address Your Workforce Challenges, was led by: Allison Abayasekara, Association of Clinicians for the Underserved Michelle Varcho, 3RNet Pamela Byrnes, John Snow, Inc. Below are...
A Toolkit for Collecting Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Clinical Settings
“Presented here are ten things every health care organization can do to achieve a more inclusive and affirming health care environment. These practical strategies are meant to be broad enough to be adaptable, yet specific enough to allow for measuring progress. In taking these steps, you will make significant strides in providing equitable health...
A guide to providing appropriate and welcoming care to LGBT individuals for health care providers and staff.
“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,...
The Institute of Medicine report entitled Unequal Treatment recommended that all health care professionals receive training in cross-cultural communication—also called “cultural competence”—as one potential strategy for addressing racial or ethnic disparities in health care. Although evidence shows that cultural competence training improves the attitudes, knowledge, and skills of physicians...
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.
View the collected presentations from the GW Health Workforce Insitute’s 2015 Speaker Series.
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.
This 2015 toolkit discusses common challenges faced by health centers while recruiting and retaining new clinicians and offers techniques and resources for success.
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