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Selected Articles and Book Chapters by NCCC Faculty

• The Evidence Base for Cultural and Linguistic Competency in Health Care (written by NCCC faculty, published by The Commonwealth Fund)
• Goode, T., Haywood, S. & Bronheim, S. (In Press) The role of self-assessment in achieving cultural and linguistic competence and addressing health care disparities. In P. Kinsey, Ed. Health Care Delivery for African Americans in the Twenty-First Century: Equity and Access Issues. Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press.
• Goode, T., Jones, W. & Jackson, V. (2011) Families with African American Roots. In E. Lynch & M. Hanson (Eds.) Developing Cross Cultural Competence 4th edition. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.
• Wehmeyer, M., Abery, B., Zhang, D., Ward, K., Willis, D., Hossain-Amin, W., Balcazar, F., Ball, A., Calkins, C., Heller, T., Goode, T. Jesien, G., McVeigh, T., Nygren, M., Palmer, S. & Walker, H. (2011) “Personal Self-Determination and Moderating Variables that Impact Efforts to Promote Self-Determination”. Exceptionality: A Special Education Journal. Routledge Publishing. New York, NY.
• Goode, T., Bronheim, S. and Jackson, V. (2010)The Essential Role of Cultural Competency in Addressing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in L. Jack, Jr. Ed. Diabetes in Black America: Public Health and Clinical Solutions to a National Crisis. Munster, In: Hilton.
• Goode, T. D. & Maloof, P. End-of Life Through a Cultural Lens. (2010). In Friedman, S. and Helm, D. (Eds.) End-of Life Care for Children and Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Washington, DC: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
• Goode, T., Wells, N., & Kyu, Rhee (2009). Family-Centered, Culturally and Linguistically Competent Care: Essential Components of the Medical Home. In Turchi, R. & Antonelli, R. (Eds.) Pediatric Annals Special Supplement on the Medical Home. Thoroughfare, NJ: Slack Incorporated (In press).
• Tullius, S. G., Goode, T. D., & Kahan, B. D. (2008). “Ethnic and Gender Disparity in Renal Transplantation”. In Renal Transplantation: Ethnic/Gender Disparity and Novel Immunosuppressive Agents. Guildford, CT: Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Thornton Medical Communications.
• Telfair, J., Bronheim, S., & Harrison, S. Implementation of Culturally and Linguistically Competent Policies by State Title V Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Programs, Maternal and Child Health Journal, November, 2008.
• Goode, T. & Jones, W. (2007). Cultural Influences on Child Development: The Middle Years. In Gullotta T. & Blau, G. (Eds.) Family Influences on Childhood Behavior and Development: Evidence-based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment Approaches. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,

Checklists

• Applying Cultural and Linguistic Competence to a Framework for Creating Learning Spaces for the Enhancement of Experiential Learning
• Climate of the Learning Environment: Cultural and Linguistic Competence Checklist for MCH Training Program
• Cultural and Linguistic Competence Checklists for MCH Training Programs: Includes Climate of the Learning Environment; Curriculum; Experiential Learning and Addendum (Applying Cultural and Linguistic Competence to a Framework for Creating Learning Spaces for the Enhancement of Experiential Learning); and Research
• Curriculum: Cultural and Linguistic Competence Checklist for MCH Training Program
• Documenting the Implementation of Cultural and Linguistic Competence: A Guide for Maternal and Child Health Bureau Funded Training Programs
• Experiential Learning: Cultural and Linguistic Competence Checklist for MCH Training Programs
• Checklist to Facilitate the Development of Culturally and Linguistically Competent Primary Health Care Policies and Structures - excerpt from Policy Brief 1
• Checklist to Facilitate the Development of Linguistic Competence within Primary Health Care Organizations - excerpt from Policy Brief 2
• Checklist to Facilitate the Development of Linguistic Competence within Primary Health Care Organizations - excerpt from Policy Brief 3
• Checklist to Facilitate Cultural Competence in Community Engagement - excerpt from Policy Brief 4
• Promoting Cultural & Linguistic Competency Self- Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Services and Supports In Early Intervention and Early Childhood Settings | En Español
• Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Primary Health Care Services
• Promoting Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Services and Supports to LGBTQ Youth and their Families
• Promoting Cultural Diversity and Cultural and Linguistic Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist for Staff of Residential Programs Providing Behavioral Health Services and Supports to Children, Youth, and their Families
• Promoting Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Services and Supports to Children with Disabilities & Special Health Needs and their Families| En Español
• Promoting Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Behavioral Health Services and Supports to Children, Youth and Their Families
• Promoting Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency Self-Assessment Checklist For Personnel Providing Services and Supports to Individuals and Families Affected by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Other Infant Death (SUID) | En Español
• Research: Cultural and Linguistic Competence Checklist ofr MCH Training Programs
• Transition: Cultural and Linguistic Competence Checklist for Medical Home Teams

Family and Youth Narratives

• From Father to Father | En Español
• Integración o inclusión de niños con discapacidades en programas regulares de educación
• Is Your Youth With Special Health Care Needs Prepared to Partner With the Medical Home?
• Nivea's Life | En Español
• The Story of Buda | En Español
• Youth & Family Perspectives on Transition

Guides and Planning Tools

• Core Outcomes for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
• 1. Families of children with special health care needs will partner in decision making at all levels, and will be satisfied with the services they receive.
• 2. All children with special health care needs will receive coordinated ongoing comprehensive care within a medical home.
• 3. All families of children with special health care needs will have adequate private and/or public insurance to pay for the services they need.
• 4. All children will be screened early and continuously for special health care needs.

• Services for children with special health care needs and their families will be organized in ways that families can use them easily.
• 5. All youth with special health care needs will receive the services necessary to make appropriate transitions to adult health care, work, and independence.
• Getting Started..and Moving On...Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Cultural and Linguistic Competency for Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Families
• Getting Started: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Culturally and Linguistically Competent Service Delivery Systems for Children with Special Health Needs and their Families | En Español
• Getting Started: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Culturally Competent Service Delivery Systems in Primary Health Care Settings Implications for Policy Makers and Administrators | En Español
• A Guide for Advancing Family-Centered and Culturally and Linguistically Competent Care
• A Guide for Using the Cultural and Linguistic Competence Family Organization Assessment Instrument (CLCFOA)
• A Guide to Choosing and Adapting Culturally and Linguistically Competent Health Promotion Materials | En Español
• A Guide to Planning and Implementing Cultural Competence Organizational Self-Assessment
• A Planner's Guide...Infusing Principles, Content and Themes Related to Cultural and Linguistic Competence into Meetings and Conferences
• Planning for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in State Title V Programs
• Planning for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Systems of Care
• Quick Tips: Creating materials and approaches to training that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for the intended audience

Monographs and Briefs

• And the Journey Continues ... Achieving Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Systems Serving Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs and their Families
• Bridging the Cultural Divide in Health Care Settings: The Essential role of Cultural Broker Programs
• Building Integrated Systems to Address Sudden Unexpected Infant Death
• Cultural Competence: It all starts at the Front Desk
• Helping Families Support Their Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Children
• Information on Language Access, Working with Linguistically Diverse Populations – Frequently Asked Questions
• Life Course Perspective for Families of Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs
• Mentoring in Our Lives—the Voices of Students and Maternal and Child Health Professionals
• Programs that Support Students and Faculty from Racial and Ethnic Groups Underrepresented in Maternal and Child Health Training Programs
• Providing Services and Supports for Youth who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, Intersex or Two-Spirit
• A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE— Mentoring: An Evidence-based Strategy to Increase Diversity Among Students and Faculty from Racial and Ethnic Groups Underrepresented in Maternal and Child Health Training Programs
• Rationale for Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Maternal and Child Health Bureau–Funded Training Programs
• Rationale for Self-Assessment
• Sharing a Legacy of Caring: Partnerships Between Health-Care and Faith-Based Organizations

Multimedia and Distance Learning

• African American Faith-Based Bereavement Initiative: Curriculum
• Body/Mind/Spirit Toward a Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Model of Health
• Conscious and Unconscious Biases in Health Care
• Cultural and Linguistic Competence Organizational Self-Assessment for Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Programs (CLCOA-FIMR): Webinar
• Curricula Enhancement Module Series: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Self-Assessment, Process of Inquiry – Communicating in a Multicultural Environment, Public Health in a Multicultural environment
• Data Vignettes
• Mentoring— an Evidence-based Strategy to Increase the Number of Students and Faculty from Racial and Ethnic Groups Underrepresented in Maternal and Child Health Training Programs
• In Their Own Voices: Cultural Competence and Health Promotion
• Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competence into Health Promotion Training DVD
• Toolkit for Community Health Providers: Engaging Ethnic Media to Inform Communities about Safe Infant Sleep
• Topical Conference Call Series Archive
• Language Access: Implications for State MCH/CSHCN Programs- A Focus on California
• Cultural Competence Organizational Self-Assessment: Implications for State MCH/CSHN Programs
• Engaging Families and Youth from Diverse Communities in Partnership: Implications for State Title V/CSHCN Programs
• Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competence into the Six Core Outcomes for Children with Special Health Care Needs: Success Stories
• Adequate Insurance (no agenda available)
• Perspectives on Transition
• Cultural Considerations for Early and Continuous Screening

Policy Briefs

• Policy Brief: Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Family Supports
• Policy Brief: Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competence into the Multiple Systems Encountered by Families Following the Sudden, Unexpected Death of an Infant | En Español
• Policy Brief 1: Rationale for Cultural Competence | En Español
• Policy Brief 2: Linguistic Competence in Primary Health Care Delivery Systems: Implications for Policy Makers | En Español
• Policy Brief 3: Cultural Competence in Primary Health Care: Partnerships for a Research Agenda | En Español
• Policy Brief 4: Engaging Communities to Realize the Vision of One Hundred Percent Access and Zero Health Disparities: A Culturally Competent Approach | En Español

Promising Practices

• Community Engagement and Partnerships Improve Access to Medical Homes
• Community Engagement Brings Credibility to Risk Reduction, Chicago, IL
• Community Health Center's Outreach Program to Homeless Population
• Cultural Brokers Help Families and Providers
• Cultural Exchange Creates Community Understanding. Federation of Families of West Palm Beach County, Inc.
• Dialogue Creates Effective Risk Reduction Training, North Carolina
• Empowering Girls to Take Control of Their Bodies Through Breast Cancer Detection Skills
• Engaging Youth to Create Positive Change: Parent Support Network of Rhode Island
• Innovative Self-Assessment and Strategic Planning: Addressing Health Disparities in Contra Costa County
• Keeping the Faith, Alameda County, CA
• Latino Network: a Natural Fit in a Community-Driven Model. Westchester County Community Network
• Low Rider Book Club: The Teen Alternative to Drugs & Violence
• Native American Women Bring Date Rape Prevention to the Classroom
• National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Providers Link AppalachianCommunities and Care
• Promising Practice Series
• Shaman and Physicians Partner for Improving Health for Hmong Refugees
• Use of Cultural Rituals as Part of the Therapeutic Process:
• Using a Book Club to Confront Attitudinal Barriers and Other “isms”
• Using Traditional Practices to Support Change, Washington state
• With Always Right, Teens Get the Message, New York City, NY

Self Assessment Instruments

• The Cultural and Linguistic Competence Assessment for Disability Organizations: Assessment and Guide (CLCADO)
• The Cultural and Linguistic Competence Family Organization: Assessment and Guide (CLCFOA)
• Cultural and Linguistic Competence Organizational Assessment Instrument for Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Programs (CLCOA-FIMR)
• Cultural and Linguistic Competence Policy Assessment (CLCPA)