Increasing Your Organization’s Cultural Competency

Community Science Introduces

JourneyStart

An Innovative Solution to Increasing Your Organization’s Cultural Competency

Are you a small to mid-size organization (15-60 full- or part-time staff) providing health education and preventive and clinical services?

Do you provide these services in communities that are experiencing health disparities?

Are you interested in improving your organization’s cultural competency?

Are you interested in free tools and services for the next six months?

If you said yes to these questions, then this webinar is for you!

JourneyStart offers you:

• A readiness assessment
• A full cultural competency assessment that focuses on:
• Organizational policies and procedures
• Staff behaviors
• Relationships with other organizations serving the same populations
• A dashboard showing your organization’s cultural competency assessment results
• A library of cultural competency resources
• Technical assistance tailored to your organization
• A peer exchange forum

About JourneyStart

Community Science received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop JourneyStart, an online resource platform that assesses organizational cultural competency and provides tailored technical assistance to small to midsize health organizations. Culturally competent care is essential to meeting the health needs of diverse communities in our nation. JourneyStart is an innovative solution in that it:

• shifts the focus from the individual to the organization’s capacity to respond to people with differing health traditions, comfort levels with health care providers, and ability to follow healthcare advice,
• assesses an organization’s cultural competency on a continuum based on stages of behavior change, which recognizes cultural competency as a process of gradual, incremental, and ongoing change,
• employs visual analytics and cloud computing to be more accessible and user-friendly, and
• promotes a learning environment by making expertise in organizational cultural competency available to JourneyStart users and providing opportunities for organizations to learn from each other.

Interested? 

Join Kien Lee, Ph.D., and Wanda Casillas, Ph.D., from Community Science to learn more about JourneyStart and how your organization can benefit from it! 

September 5, 2018, 3:00 p.m. EST: Click here to register by September 3. 

September 13, 2018, Noon EST: Click here to register by September 11. 

September 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m. EST: Click here to register by September 19.