Building Bridges to Cultural Competency

This one-day training explores the broad definition of culture and its relationship to competent and effective health care and human service delivery.

As a result of training participants will be able to:

• Discuss invisible privilege and its affect on both receiving and providing services;
• Explore potential obstacles to providing effective services; and
• Describe how these obstacles are created when diverse cultures, Western medicine and human service deliveries collide.

Prerequisite: None

Audience: All health and human service providers.

Continuing Education Credits:

This training is provided under New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Education and Training Provider Certification Number 0305. Under the NYS OASAS Provider Certificate, this training is approved for 6.5 clock hours toward the education and training requirements for renewal of CASAC/CPP/CPS certification.

To register: visit www.hivtrainingny.org.