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Focal Point: A National Bulletin on Family Support and Children's Mental Health: Assessing and Addressing Cultural Competence, 16(2), Fall 2002. (ENTIRE ISSUE)
Walker, J. & Tullis, K. (Eds.) Download PDF
Assessing and addressing cultural competence in systems of care.
Walker, J. S.
This editorial reviews how the understanding of cultural competence in children's mental health has evolved in the past 15 years. Download PDF
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Reflecting on cultural competence: A need for renewed urgency.
Huang, L. N. This article reviews indicators pointing to an urgent and continued need for increasing cultural competence in children's mental health, juvenile justice, child welfare, and special education. The article also includes an outline of a national policy agenda to address this need. Download PDF
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Natural helpers from the neighborhood.
Lazear, K. & Pires, S. EQUIPO is an innovative, front-line practice strategy to form professional/natural helper partnerships to support families receiving services from systems of care. The article describes how the program functions in a Latino neighborhood in Miami, and summaries evaluation data for EQUIPO. Download PDF
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Service access through juvenile courts: Special challenges for culturally competent systems of care.
Breda, C. S. This article uses data from a study in Tennessee to explore the complex question of how to identify bias in courts' decisions to refer young offenders to mental health and drug or alcohol treatment. The article concludes with a discussion of the courts' role in combating ethnic bias. Download PDF
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Measuring the cultural pulse of service providers.
Gomez, A. Findings from a national study using System of Care Practice Review indicate that communities implementing systems of care demonstrate a higher level of cultural competence than have matched comparison sites. Findings also show that families tend to base their ratings of cultural competence on their perceptions of the providers' caring and commitment. Download PDF
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Families and communities in evaluation.
CrossBear, S. In this essay, the author argues for greater inclusion of family and community perspectives in the evaluation of programs and services, and describes some necessary first steps. Download PDF
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Working toward cultural competence through family involvement.
Ortega, A., Bourne, T., Strnad, C., Rojas, S. & Olayinka, S. The author, a family member working inside the Minnesota Department of Human Services, describes the specific steps her state has taken to increase the cultural competence by increasing family participation in policy making. Download PDF
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A community responds: On the way toward cultural competence.
Arbuckle, M. B. This article describes some specific, innovative steps that the human service system in Guilford County, North Carolina has taken to increase cultural competence. Download PDF
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Inclusive child care: Challenges and strategies.
Brennan, E., Caplan, E. H., Ama, S., Warfield, O. & Bradely, J. This article presents the results of a research project examining the characteristics of child care programs that have been particularly successful in including children with emotional and behavioral challenges. Download PDF
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Reducing minority student disproportionality in special education: Schools and families working together.
Woodruff, D. This article describes how schools, families, and communities can work together to increase cultural competence and reduce minority student disproportionality in special education. Download PDF
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Achieving cultural competence through organizational self-assessment.
Tawara D. Goode, T. D., Jones, W. & Mason, J. Self-assessment can provide the basis for a strengths-based process to increase cultural competence in organizations and systems serving children with mental health challenges and their families. This article outlines the essential steps of such a process. Download PDF
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Measuring client perspectives on cultural competence.
Walker, J. This article describes the development and validation of the Client Cultural Competence Inventory, an instrument designed to assess client and perceptions of mental health services. Download PDF
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Cultural competence assessment in Systems of Care: A Concept Mapping Alternative.
Davis, T. S., Johnson, T. K., Barraza, F. & Rodriguez, B. A. This article describes how one community used a concept mapping instrument to assess cultural competence in its system of care and to develop priorities for action. The article also details how the assessment was conducted in a way which was consistent with system of care values. Download PDF
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Caregivers' perspectives on cultural competence.
Walker, J. & Cook, J. This article presents findings from research into caregivers' own views about the extent to which services and providers demonstrated respect for their beliefs and values. The study focuses primarily on analyses of caregivers' accounts of specific occasions when they felt their values had, or had not, been respected in service planning and provision. Download PDF
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