Sentences with phrase «strengthening cultural competency»

mandate and strengthen cultural competency across the department against the Victorian Government's Aboriginal Cultural Inclusion Framework

Her presentation melds well with the supportive nature of AIDA to mentor and grow the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander medical workforce, and to encourage health training and service sectors to strengthen their cultural competency.

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We also consult with experts on specific social - emotional topics such as relational aggression and cultural diversity to strengthen our knowledge and competencies in these areas.

These domains incorporate evidence - based practices and strategies that attend to students» developmental and cultural needs while strengthening students» social and emotional competencies and promoting academic behaviors associated with improved student performance.

Cultural competency development is now a large component of the Oregon Leadership Network's mission to strengthen education leadership to improve student success and eliminate the performance gap between different ethnic and socioeconomic student groups.

The network identified cultural competency as necessary to strengthen leadership policy and development, which began the trajectory of including cultural competency in policy and state adminis ¬ trator licensure standards.

Consistent with its mission, Center initiatives focus on school - based prevention and intervention programs; childhood mental health and positive youth development; family strengthening; juvenile justice, court interventions and community safety; community health; system of care and cultural competency; and workforce development to advance educational success, health and well - being.

Next I further explore how cultural competency can create engagements that strengthen and empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

In New Zealand, recent strengthening of the Māori health workforce has led to a number of successes: interventions led by, focused on, and targeted to Māori; consistent investment in Māori health over a prolonged period; and an emphasis on the development of dual cultural and clinical competencies.14 In the United States, successful Native American health service development in the early 1990s appears to have been shaped by federal government administration, the separation of the Indian Health Service from other Native American affairs, and provision of an integrated health service.15 In both countries, recent reductions in overall death rates for indigenous people have been noted; in the US this relates to injury prevention, whereas in NZ it relates to fewer deaths due to circulatory conditions.16 Although it is not known whether improved health services for indigenous peoples in the US and NZ have a causal relationship with decreased mortality, the two appear to «travel together» well.

Strengthening mainstream sector's continuous quality improvement processes related to cultural safety and competency was identified in the review as an important priority.