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Teaching Tools, Strategies, and Resources, continued

Case 1, continued:
Faculty Dynamics Associated with Advancing Cultural and Linguistic Competence

=Consider a broad range of strategies.

  • Provide information on evidence about cultural and linguistic competence and their relationship to health and mental health disparities and inequities.
  • Involve faculty, staff, and students in a process to define and reach consensus on what cultural competence and linguistic competence mean within the context of the MCH program and develop a logic model.
  • Identify champions or credible voices (both internal and external) to the program and university to share perspectives with faculty who remain hesitant.
  • Form an internal structure to explore how to infuse content on cultural and linguistic competence into the curriculum and training program (consider including students, community stakeholders, other interested faculty).
  • Identify other departments and faculty that have expertise in this area to serve as mentors and coaches.
  • Identify other MCH interdisciplinary training programs that taken journey including their challenges and successes.
  • Develop a plan to measure change over time including:
    • Faculty buy in and acceptance
    • Faculty awareness, knowledge and skills
    • Student satisfaction with learning experiences and curricula
    • Student knowledge and skill acquisition
    • Other ideas…
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