Vetted Resources Contributed by UCEDDs
Addressing Disparities and Disproportionality in Systems serving Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence delves into the contributing factors to disparities and disproportionality and what three organizations are doing at the policy and practice levels to mitigate them.
Confronting and Addressing Conscious and Unconscious Biases and the ISMs
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence looks at the “ISMs” (The “ISMs” is an umbrella term used to refer to a range of attitudes and behaviors that involve perceived superiority, oppression, prejudice, and discrimination based on such factors as race, national origin, ethnicity, language, class, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity and expression), their impact on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and the role of leaders in confronting these attitudes and behaviors.
Cultural and Linguistic Competence Health Practitioner Assessment (CLCHPA)
Material Types: Training Material
The CLCHPA is a validate measure of cultural and linguistic competence. It is an on-line self-guided learning activity designed as a self-assessment process to provide the participant with two types of feedback ...
Cultural Brokering: An Effective Approach for Engaging Diverse Communities in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Services and Supports
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence highlights selected intellectual and developmental disabilities organizations that are successfully using cultural brokering to engage culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Cultural Competence Facilitators Handbook
Material Types: Curriculum
This is a course designed for school personnel to increase cultural competence. The course includes a set of videos on each topic, multiple activities, that include personal reflection, on each topic and a set of evaluation sheets for each section.
Cultural Implications of Self-Advocacy
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence features the voices of a diverse panel of people with developmental disabilities, how they view self-advocacy, and what self-advocacy means from their unique cultural perspective.
Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches to Serving Diverse Populations: A Resource Guide for Community Based Organizations
Material Types: Curriculum, Training Material
This document provides definitions of cultural competence, a framework for achieving it and is focused at the organizational level for providing social services.
Developing Organizational Policies that Reflect the Values of Cultural & Linguistic Competence
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence explores the intersection of guiding values and principles of cultural and linguistic competence (CLC), as put forth by the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence, within the context of organizations that represent, advocate with and on behalf of, and provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Disability through a Cultural Lens
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence uses a cultural lens to explore the multiple beliefs and views about intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Engaging and Partnering with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence explores the experiences of organizations in Arizona, California, and Maryland in their successful initiatives to engage African American, Chinese, and Latino/Hispanic communities in support of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the lifespan.
Establishing and Maintaining Collaborative Relationships When Working with Latino Families
Material Types: Training Material
A 6-page informational and pictorial document which describes the results of a focus group with Latino families who have children with developmental disabilities that explores barriers and challenges these families experienced accessing services and supports for their children and themselves.
Getting Buy-In and Implementing Cultural and Linguistic Competence Organizational Assessments
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence delves into the role of leaders in getting buy-in and implementing cultural and linguistic competence organizational assessments to enhance their capacity to work with and on behalf of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Health Disparities LEND PPT
Material Types: Training Material
This resource consists of a PowerPoint presentation (23 slides) on the topic of health disparities and National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate in Health and Health Care (CLAS Standards).
Influencing Change in Public and Organizational Policy in Support of Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence is designed to offer examples from organizations that have recognized their own limitations, or those within the systems in which they are involved, related to the lack of cultural diversity and marginal attention that is given to fostering cultural and linguistic competence.
KU Community Tool Box. Chapter 27. Cultural Competence in a Multi-Cultural World
Material Types: Curriculum
This on-line curriculum covers a broad range of topics related to cultural competence within the context of community development, organization, and engagement.
Leading Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Understanding Your Role with and without Formal Authority
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence looks at the dynamics impacting leaders with formal authority and those without, and identifies strategies to advance cultural and linguistic competence and cultural diversity in these situations.
Leading in Communities with Deep Historical Wounds
Material Types: Training Material
This Learning and Reflection Forum from the Leadership Institute on Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence focuses on: (a) historical trauma from the perspective of African American, American Indian, and Muslim communities in the United States; and (b) what leaders can do to acknowledge these injustices and forge relationships that foster mutual respect, understanding, and healing.
Multiculturalism, Chronic Illness and Disability
Material Types: Curriculum, Training Material
An article that advocates convincingly that a better understanding of the unique combination of cultural roles, expectations, and conceptual frameworks about individuals with a disability or chronic illness, and how these social factors shape the decisions made for individuals with a disability by their families.
Multiculturalism, Communication Patterns and Assumptions in Differing Cultural Groups in the United States
Material Types: Training Material
This Master's thesis disaggregates communication into behaviors and the assumptions of the meaning of these behaviors that can explain different communicative intent for what are viewed as universal communication behaviors.
Project AWARE Cultural Competence Learning Community
Material Types: Curriculum
The curricula was designed to support a learning community that can commit to meeting together for an extended period of time. The year-long learning community consisted of education administrators reviewing, watching, and reading the resources included in the course outline and then meeting for a structured discussion of the content and how it related to their work on school-based mental health.
Race, Cultural, and Disability: Rehabilitation Science and Practice
Material Types: Curriculum, Training Material
This 414-page book covers a variety of topics related to people at the intersection of race, culture, and disability. The intended audience for this book includes researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in the field of Rehabilitation.
Self-determination: Choice through the Lens of Cultural
Material Types: Training Material
A PowerPoint presentation, comprised of 42-slides, designed for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities which defines self-determination as a belief and process for controlling one's own life.
The Mass Act Early campaign--Considering Culture in Autism Screening (CCIA)
Material Types: Training Material
Conducting screening for children suspecting of having autism spectrum disorders (ASD) from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds can be challenging for families and staff, not only due to language differences, but because of differing cultural expectations about child development and understanding of ASD and interventions.
The Voices of Latino Families Raising Children with Special Needs
Material Types: Training Material
A published article which examined the perceptions of 16 Latino families regarding their views and experiences raising a child with special needs/disability and their involvement in their child's schooling.
Understanding Implicit Bias
Material Types: Training Material
This resource links to the website of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity--Understanding Implicit Bias section. The resource defines implicit bias as attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions which are unconscious, both favorable and unfavorable, not accessible through introspection.