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Cultural
Competence Exchange Newsletter
November
1999
The Division of Children with Special Health Care Needs (DSCSHN)
of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) is pleased to
welcome two new Federal partners in supporting the NCCC. One
partner is within the MCHB B the Infant and Child Health Branch?s
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Other Infant Death (SIDS/ID)
Program will be served by the NCCC. Our second new Federal partner
is our sister Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
agency, the Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC). In responding
to HRSA's goal of 100% access and 0 disparities, cultural and
linguistic competency is a cross-cutting strategy that the MCHB
and BPHC are using to plan, implement and evaluate our programs'
abilities to reach and serve our target populations better, prepare
providers to care for a growing culturally diverse population
and to recruit and retain culturally diverse staff. We are delighted
to see an expansion of the activities of the NCCC to support
this collaborative Federal effort.
This new collaboration at the HRSA level brings two new partners
in the efforts to infuse cultural competence into the health
services of this nation. We wish to thank Sharon Barrett, MSW,
Director of the Office of Minority and Women?s Health, BPHC,
and Project Officer for the BPHC Project of NCCC, for her vision
in expanding cultural competence efforts throughout the country.
We look forward to continued collaboration with Paul Rusinko,
the MCHB Project Officer for the SIDS/ID component of the NCCC.
NCCC will be pursuing a variety of activities in the coming
year including the addition of two more demonstration sites for
the CSHN component; however, I would like to highlight a few
of the efforts on which we will collaborate:
Potential BPHC collaborative activities with MCHB will include:
- Joint Technical Assistance (T.A.)/assessment/training opportunities
in selected states;
- Joint NCCC and cultural competence orientation between the
two Bureaus conducted by the NCCC.
Collaboration has already lead to developing guidelines for
incorporating cultural competence into conference planning.
The NCCC achievements over the past year include:
1. Assisted the
DSCSHN in crafting a definition for the requirement of cultural
competency for all applicants applying for any MCHB
discretionary grant programs;
2. Responded to
100 T.A. requests for CSHN; 97 T.A. requests from BPHC programs;
and 15 T.A. requests from SIDS/ID programs;
requests came from 40 states and territories, Canada and Germany;
3. Made presentations
at 24 different conferences, including the Association of Maternal
and Child Health Programs, the annual
conference series for the National Health Service Corps (BPHC)
and the SIDS Alliance 1999 Annual Conference;
4. Linked with
and provided consultation to other professional associations
and academic institutions, such as the American
Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of Community
Health Centers (BPHC), the Society for Public Health Education;
5. Assisted in
Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and Georgetown
Medical Center.
I would like to offer some special messages to a number of people
who work with us to make culturally competent services and systems
a reality.
Congratulations
John Evans, Texas Dept. Of Health, for receiving a HRSA
award for promoting cultural competence
Cultural Competence consortium member, Marilyn Salso known
asra (NM), on her promotion to Bureau Chief, Family Health
Bureau, NM Dept. Of Health
Thank You
"Muchas Gracias a" Alfonso Lopez Vasques (OR) and the
Oregon Health Sciences University; John Evans (TX),
and the Texas Department of Health; Kathryn Smith and
the Los Angeles County Childrens'Medical Services (CA); Mary
Huber, Michelle Cravetz and the New York Department of Health; Dr.
Vidya Gupta and Nayibe Manjarres at Metropolitan
Hospital Center (NY) and parents, Debbie Garcia (NM), Pat
Mejia (CA) , Maggie Nieves and Roger Henriquez (both
from NY) for participating in the national and regional conferences
for the White House Initiative for Excellence in Education for
Hispanic Americans.
Dr. Merle G. McPherson, Carolyn Gleason (Region X Field
Offiice) and I wish to thank Family Voices for our awards and
ceremony on Capitol Hill.
Announcement
The NCCC is pleased to announce that this year's two demonstration
sites for the MCHB Component will be New Mexico and Texas.
Diana Denboba
NCCC Federal Project Officer
Public Health Analyst
Division of Services for Children and Youth with Special Health
Needs
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
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