Featured in the lessons:

• Video on the importance of cultural competence in Texas
• DARS’ Early Childhood Intervention course: Ethics: Making Better Decisions
• DSHS’ Language Resource Bank
• Cultural competence checklist
• Perspectives on multicultural health care delivery
• Professional guidelines for improving cultural competence:
  • Social Workers
  • Nurses
  • Family Physicians
  • Dentists
  • Medicaid Providers
  • Mental Health Care Providers
  • Health Care Organizations
• Sample resources for specific populations’ health and health care delivery needs and preferences:
  • African American
  • Hispanic/Latino
  • Asian
  • Native American
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Persons with Disabilities: Link 1
  • Persons with Disabilities: Link 2
  • Rural Populations
  • Deaf Culture
• The Stages & Levels of Cultural Competency Development
• The National Standards on CLAS

Other references:

• Berlin, E.A., Fowkes, W.C. 1983. Teaching framework for cross-cultural care: application in Family Practice. Western Journal of Medicine 139(6), 934-938.
• Hancock, T.U. 2005. Cultural competence in the assessment of poor Mexican families in the rural southeastern United States. Child Welfare 84(5), 689-711.
• Jecker, N.S., Carrese, J.A., Pearlman, R.A. 1995. Caring for patients in cross-cultural settings. Hastings Center Report 25(1), 6-14.
• Juckett, G. 2005. Cross-cultural medicine. American Family Physician 72(11), 2267-2274.
• Kleiman, S. 2006. Discovering cultural aspects of nurse-patient relationships. Journal of Cultural Diversity 13(2), 83-86.
• Malone, B. L. 2000.Cultural Competence. Minority Health Today Magazine, Vol. 1, Number 2, Jan/Feb 2000.
• Office of Minority Health and Cultural Competency, Department of State Health Services, 2001.