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Previous Web-Based Learning & Reflection Forums


March 15, 2018 - 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
What Organizations Can Do to Address the “Isms”


February 20, 2018
Engaging Partners to Advance and Sustain Cultural and Linguistic Competence in the Current Climate


January 25, 2018
Exploring Intersectionality and Multiple Cultural Identities within Developmental and other Disabilities


April 13, 2017
Developing Organizational Policies that Reflect the Values of Cultural & Linguistic Competence

March 24, 2017
Leading in Communities with Deep Historical Wounds

March 16, 2017
Getting Buy In and Implementing Cultural and Linguistic Competence Organizational Assessments

January 19, 2017 
Confronting and Addressing Conscious and Unconscious Biases and the ISMs


December 14, 2016
Cultural Implications of Self-Advocacy

November 16, 2016
Disability through a Cultural Lens

May 20, 2016
Leading Cultural and Linguistic Competence: Understanding Your Role with and without Formal Authority

April 28, 2016
Cultural Brokering: An Effective Approach for Engaging Diverse Communities in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Services and Supports

  • Archive
  • Evaluation
  • Description and Objectives
  • Presentation
  • References
    • Jezewski, M.A. (1990).  Culture Brokering in Migrant Farmworker Care.  Western Journal of Nursing Research.  12(4), pp. 497-513.
    • Jezewski, M. A., & Sotnik, P. (2005). Disability Service Providers as Culture Brokers. In J. H. Stone (Ed.), Culture and disability: Providing culturally competent services (pp. 37-64). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
    • Goode, T., Jones, W., & Christopher, J. Brown, I., (2016). Responding to Cultural and Linguistic Differences among People with Intellectual Disability.  In Percy, M., Wehmeyer, M. L., Shogren, K. A., & Fung, A. (Eds.) (under development). A comprehensive guide to intellectual and developmental disabilities (2nd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.

September 11, 2015
Engaging and Partnering with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities

August 14, 2015
Addressing Disparities and Disproportionality in Systems serving Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

July 30, 2015
Influencing Change in Public and Organizational Policy in Support of Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competence