Grants Awarded

Cultural Competency

AIDS Network of Western New York, Buffalo, NY - conduct a workshop for HIV/AIDS health and social service providers on culturally appropriate care for African refugees

Boston Healing Landscape, Boston, MA — collection of Muslim patient narratives regarding health care experiences and needs and establishment of a web-based resource

Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA — training for internal medicine residents to better care for culturally diverse patients

Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA — scholarships for the Medical Interpreters Training Program for low-income, bilingual students (done in collaboration with Neighbors for a Better Community and the Cambridge Health Alliance)

Chelsea HealthCare Center, Chelsea, MA — cultural sensitivity training for caregivers on Latino, Somalian, Bosnian and Southeast Asian cultures

Children's Hospital, Boston, MA — video to teach caregivers how to conduct culturally sensitive patient and family assessments

Covenant Health Systems, Lexington, MA — training for clinicians on the cultural and major beliefs of the Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist traditions

Dimock Community Health Center, Roxbury, MA — training for caregivers to learn about the health care needs of the Latino community

East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, East Boston, MA — cultural sensitivity training series

Great Brook Valley Health Center, Worcester, MA — cultural competency training for clinicians caring for patients from the African refugee/immigrant community

Hallmark Health, Malden, MA — cultural sensitivity training series

Health Care for All and La Alianza Hispana, Boston, MA — two meetings to improve interpreter services in Boston hospitals and to conduct a survey of patients and providers

Hospice and Palliative Care Federation, Norwood, MA – yearly scholarships for hospice managers to attend cultural competency training

Kit Clark Senior Services, Dorchester, MA

	training on the health care needs of the elderly Cape Verdean and Vietnamese patient population
	educational sessions with patients, families and clinicians to increase understanding of the needs of patients from different cultures

Latin American Health Institute, Boston, MA — curriculum for cultural competency training

MaineHealth, Portland, ME — organization of a conference and follow-up activities to help caregivers understand the barriers created by low health literacy and to improve cultural competency

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA — cross-cultural needs assessment of senior medical residents to inform the development of a cross-cultural curriculum

New England Eye Institute, Boston, MA — cultural competency training for 50 staff optometrists

Pathways to Complementary Medicine, Boston, MA — cultural competency training for Pathways staff

Positive Directions, Boston, MA – training for clinicians caring for HIV and AIDS patients with a service module based on cultural competence

Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA – training module on the health care beliefs of the Asian immigrant population

Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod, Chatham, MA

	organization, with four other groups, of a Cape Cod conference for directors of interpreter services programs to share information about programs and models
	development of a culturally and linguistically appropriate service (CLAS) training program for providers

VNA Care Network, Needham, MA – expansion of a cultural competency program for all staff

VA Care Network, Needham, MA – continue to train staff on cultural competency and end of life issues