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Cultural Competency and Education
• Responsible for Coalition efforts to increase professional and cultural competencies of providers and others engaged in health and social service delivery to the LGBT population.
Goals
• To require (State) health & social service provider licensure boards (i.e. Physician - DO, DC, MD, midlevel practitioners, nurses, dentists, social workers, etc) continuing education related to LGBT cultural competency
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To require health & social work educational institutions to offer increasing basic & continuing education & training courses related to LGBT cultural competency.
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To require that health quality improvements/accreditation assessments include LGBT related cultural competency as measures of competency.
• To ensure that knowledge, skills & attitudes regarding cultural competency address Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual AND Transgender populations.
We propose to create the foundation for which these goals can be accomplished including creating and/or identifying databases of national (professional) organizations of health & social service providers and educators through which the coalition, and particularly, the policy committee, can send communications.
We further propose to create and/or identify databases of LGBT caucuses to assist us in accomplishing our goals as potential members of the coalition & as members of the 'mainstream' national professional organizations to influence them from within.
Workgroup Members
• April Nelson, Mautner Project, Co-chair
• Bobbi Williams, Rainbow Access Initiative, Co-chair
• Diane Bruessow, Long Island Cancer Initiative
• Tri Do, GLMA
• Brian Hurley, AMSA advocacy LGBT in Medicine
• Tyler Lepart, Mautner Project
• Jason Schneider, GLMA
• Ben Singer, Trans Health Information Project
• Shane Snowden, LGBT Resources Center for Gender Equity, UCSF
• Jack, American Medical Student Association
If you are interested in joining this group, please contact the Coalition.
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