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Cultural and Linguistic Competence Resources

The resources below are organized by implementation levels (low, medium, and full) of each of the three arches of cultural and linguistic competence (organizational structure, engagement, and services, activities, and interventions). To find out your organization's level of implementation for each arch, visit the Implementation Benchmark page at http://www.promoteprevent.org/Resources/clc/benchmarks.html.

 

Initiative has a culturally and linguistically competent organizational structure.

Organizational Structure—Low Implementation Resources

Organizational Structure—Medium Implementation Resources

Organizational Structure—Full Implementation Resources

 

Initiative has culturally and linguistically competent engagement strategies.

Engagement—Low Implementation Resources

Engagement—Medium Implementation Resources

Engagement—Full Implementation Resources

Initiative has culturally and linguistically competent services, activities, and interventions.

Services, Activities, and Interventions—Low Implementation Resources

Services, Activities, and Interventions—Medium Implementation Resources

Services, Activities, and Interventions—Full Implementation Resources

Books, Videos, and Powerpoints

  • Mindell, Arnold (1995). Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity. Portland: Lao Tse Press.
  • PowerPoint: Cultural and Linguistic Competence (2008). Macias-Smith, N., and Willis-Darpoh, G.
  • PowerPoint: Working with Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth and Families (2005). SS/HS Teleconference. Ida, D.J. and Gock, T.
  • PowerPoint: Cultural Heritage Panel, by Cindy Trarbach, Prevention Specialist, Lawrence Public School District.
  • Fadiman, Anne (1997). The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong child, her doctors, and the collision of two cultures. New York: The Noonday Press.
  • BARNGA (simulation):
    Thiagarajan, S. (1990). Barnga: A Simulation Game on Cultural Clashes. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.
  • Carter, J. (ed.) (2003). Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency–Starting Points. Retrieved October 20, 2004 from Golden Gate University.
  • Video: "Snow Falling on Cedars"
    Bass, R. (Producer) & Hicks, S. (Director). (1999). USA: Kennedy/Marshall Company.
  • Video: "Race—The Power of an Illusion" challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs: that humans come divided into a few distinct biological groups.
    This definitive three-part series is an eye-opening tale of how what we assume to be normal, commonsense, even scientific, is actually shaped by our history, social institutions and cultural beliefs.
  • Video: "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness"
    Adler, B. (Producer), & Robson, M. (Director). (1958). USA: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

 

 
 
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