Gulfcoast South Area Health Education Center is going to offer a cultural competence in health and human services workshop in Sarasota on Friday, March 16, 2018, 8:30am-12:30pm at GSAHEC Sarasota. Gulfcoast South AHEC’s Cultural Competence in Health & Human Services course is designed to help healthcare providers and human service organizations, and their teams, work effectively in a culturally diverse environment. The goal of the program is to reduce disparities by equipping attendees with the necessary tools to deliver sensitive, patient/client-centered care and lower liability risks while driving behavioral changes in their own organization’s culture. The course curriculum was created by Cross Cultural Communications, and is divided into two interactive modules, Language & Communication and Connecting Across Cultures, each with distinct learning objectives. GSAHEC’s Advanced Cultural Competence Education and Support Services (ACCESS) Program offers medical interpreting training, certification preparation, language mediator training, basic occupational Spanish for the health care, human services and safety settings, and more. Early bird registration is $60 by February 28 and standard registration runs through March 9.

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