Overview
The Advancing Cultural Competence (ACC) program courses prepares participants to recognize how the conditions of daily life, sociopolitical forces, and the culture of medicine affect health among underserved racial and ethnic groups in New York and other regions of the United States.
Participants will be empowered to transform their professional practice and yield positive health impacts at the population health level or one-on-one in clinical settings through personal reflection exercises and practice-based strategies
Each training series covers the following four themes:
- Historical frames of oppression
- Present day sociopolitical barriers and challenges to health
- Engagement with activists and advocates within the community around health
- Clinical cases and practical tools for advancing cultural competence
Training Series
Foundational
- Bridging Gaps: The Vital Role of Cultural Competence in Healthcare
- From Cultural Competency to Structural Competency: A Narrative Humility Approach
American Indian
- Multi-Generational Trauma: Effects of the Indian Boarding School Era
- Woman as the First Environment Bodies Telling Her/stories
- Urban Indian Issues in New York City and Buffalo
- Resilience from Our Roots
Latino/a
- Latino/a Health Disparities: Beyond the Cultura Answer
- Being Structurally Vulnerable: "Deservedness," Latino Migrant Laborers and Health
- Addressing Suburban Structures: Health and Latino Communities on Long Island
- Structural Competency & Latino Health in Upstate NY
African American/Black
- Structural Competency: A New Medicine for the Inequalities That Are Making Us Sick
- African American History for Health Care Providers
- Mass Incarceration and its Impact on Community Health
- Structural Competency: Engaging Stigma and Inequality in Medicine and Medical Training
Asian/Pacific Islander
- Violence Against South Asian Women: Understanding Cultural “Competency” of Structures that Heal
- Structural Competency and Health Equity: Asian American Experience in New York City
- Trauma and the Refugee Patient: Barriers and Strategies for Care
- Community Health Workers Advancing Population Health Equity & Promoting Structural Competence