Health Literacy and Cultural Competency Links
The following links, originally posted on Montefiore Medical Center’s Cultural Competency and Health Literacy Resource Repository, are intended to provide our partners and community members with additional ideas and support to reach their personal and professional goals:
Cultural Awareness/Sensitivity
- A Checklist to Facilitate Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity
- Cultural Competency Assessment Scale: Organizational Level
- Organizational Cultural Competence: A Review of Assessment Protocols
- Cultural Competence Education for Practicing Physicians: Lessons in Cultural Humility, Nonjudgmental Behaviors, and Health Beliefs Elicitation
- Bridging the Gap: A Curriculum to Teach Residents Cultural Humility
- Cultural Competency Assessment Scale
- Organizational Cultural Competence Review of Assessment Protocols
Patient Engagement
- Outreach to High-Need, High-Cost Individuals: Best Practices for New York Health Homes
- Brief Report: Spirituality Matters: Creating a Time and Place for Hope
- Original Paper: Blacks And Hispanics Are Less Likely Than Whites To Complete Addiction Treatment, Largely Due to Socioeconomic Factors
Reducing Stigma
- A Toolkit for Evaluating Programs Meant to Erase the Stigma of Mental Illness
- The Stigma Scale: development of a standardized measure of the stigma of mental illness
- The “Backbone” of Stigma: Identifying the Global Core of Public Prejudice Associated With Mental Illness
- Original Article: Conceptualizing Stigma
- Original Article: Measuring Mental Illness Stigma
- Original Article: Mental Health Treatment Seeking Among Older Adults with Depression: The Impact of Stigma and Race
- ANTI-STIGMA TOOLKIT: A Guide to Reducing Addiction-Related Stigma
Trauma-Informed Care
- A Treatment Improvement Protocol- Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services
- National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Presentation: Is Your Organization Trauma-Informed?
- Models for Developing Trauma-Informed
- Behavioral Health Systems and Trauma-Specific Services