This tutorial is designed to enhance health care providers’ and trainees’ knowledge of military life and culture in order that they may be better able to provide culturally competent care to service members, veterans and their families. This resource is a computer-based, highly generalizable, user-friendly, self-guided tutorial. Active and retired military comprise about 10 percent […]
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The Effect of Cultural Differences on the Diagnosis of Depression in African American Men
Studies show that depressed African Americans are more likely to be misdiagnosed than are depressed Caucasians. In this study a randomized sample of 239 California licensed clinical social workers and licensed marriage and family therapists were shown experimentally designed clinical videos and asked to make diagnostic judgments. Clinicians were randomly assigned to view 1 of […]
Enseñando a Nuestros Niños a Pensar (Raising a Thinking Child)
El Valor, a non-profit community-based organization, was founded in 1973 by a mother with a special needs child. Her dream of a bicultural and bilingual rehabilitation center began in the basement of a community church. El Valor, which means courage, has grown into a multicultural, multipurpose organization that reaches thousands of families locally and throughout the nation. El Valor strives […]
Indigena Health and Wellness Collaborative: Early Identification & Intervention Therapy Program
The Indigena Health and Wellness Collaborative (IHWC) is a partnership between Instituto Familiar de La Raza and Asociación Mayab that works to improve the health and well-being of Indigena families in San Francisco. Program services and activities provided by the Indigena Health & Wellness Collaborative are intricately linked to honoring the customs and traditions of the […]
CulturArte Afterschool Program – La Cultura Cura (Culture Heals)
Instituto Familiar de la Raza‘s La Cultura Cura offers youth positive alternatives to violence and incarceration through a range of services and cultural arts activities including intensive case management, court advocacy, mental health services and innovative arts programming. La Cultura Cura is noted for providing critical programming for monolingual Spanish-speaking and multicultural Latino youth and their […]
Hoy Recovery Program: Incorporating Cultural Healers & Agriculture in Substance Abuse Recovery
Hoy Recovery works to incorporate traditional cultural healing practices in the treatment of substance abuse. Two of the key ways that they do this are through inclusion of cultural healers and their Agricultural Project. The Agriculture Project treats chemically dependent service users by emphasizing and reinforcing their relationship with the land, an important component of traditional Hispanic culture in the […]