Training Institutes 2012 - National Technical Assistance Center for ...

TARGETED INSTITUTE #9 9:30 AM SUNDAY • SUN C
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Systems of Care: Confronting Issues…Creating Solutions
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To define and differentiate between disparities in mental health status and mental health care among racial and
ethnic groups
2. To list and describe factors that contribute to these disparities in their settings
3. To describe the advantages and limitations of cultural and linguistic competence in addressing racial and ethnic
disparities in mental health
4. To create a disparities action plan with practical strategies to implement in their respective settings
This Targeted Institute will focus on the identification of contributing factors to racial and ethnic disparities in children’s
mental health and development of an action plan to address such disparities. Faculty will highlight approaches including
data-driven strategies to uncover disparities and measure progress for racially and ethnically diverse children, youth, and
their families and specific ways in which cultural competence and linguistic competence can address racial and ethnic
disparities in mental health care.
These strategies emerge from a synthesis of the literature and the experience of the faculty in conducting research and
providing training, technical assistance, and consultation on the essential role of cultural and linguistic competence in
decreasing racial, ethnic, and other disparities and promoting equity across child-serving systems.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Definitions and conceptual frameworks to explain the multiple dimensions of disparities (i.e., differentiating
disparities in mental health status and outcomes from disparities in mental health care including the 5 As—
availability, accessibility, affordability, appropriateness, and acceptability)
• Factors that contribute to racial and ethnic disparities at the cultural group level (norms, traditions, and world view);
interpersonal level (interaction between practitioner and service recipients including the role of bias); and societal
level (social determinants of mental illness to include structural “isms”)
• Role of cultural and linguistic competence at both the individual and organizational levels that can address the
aforementioned challenges
• Examination of issues and application of strategies and potential solutions based on the socio-cultural contexts of the
participants’ respective settings
Participants will be engaged in an interactive “Sticky Wall” exercise. Each participant will create an individual
“Addressing Disparities Plan of Action” for implementation in their organizational and program settings.
Both presenters are members of the faculty of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) at Georgetown
University and bring perspectives from the mental health world with a particular interest in the impact of bias, the
“isms”, and processes of mental health service delivery on disparities in mental health care, as well as knowledge and
experience related to cultural and linguistic competence across a broad spectrum of human service fields.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Vivian Jackson, Ph.D., Senior Policy Associate, National Center for Cultural
Competence and the National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University Center
for Child and Human Development, Washington, DC
Tawara Goode, M.A., Director and Assistant Professor, National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown
University Center for Child and Human Development, Washington, DC
Training Institutes 2012
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