Comité de Aptitud Cultural

 

Vision:
To develop culturally competent healthcare organizations in the Tampa Bay area.

Goals and Objectives:

Goal 1

Complete an initial local needs assessment of Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative members.

  1a. Determine what linguistic services (i.e., interpretation and translation) are currently 

  available for the Spanish speaking population.

  1b. Determine what linguistic services (i.e., interpretation and translation) are currently

  available for the Haitian/Creole speaking population.

  1c. Assess the degree to which organizations address the 14 elements of CLAS

  (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards)

Goal 2

Develop a working model to provide linguistic services (interpretation and translation) to members of the Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative.

  2a. Research and identify existing models/ programs to address the needs of the Tampa

  Bay Healthcare Collaborative community.

  2b. Modify the identified models/ programs to suit the needs of the Tampa Bay

  Healthcare Collaborative community as appropriate.

Goal 3

Increase the multilingual and multicultural resources available to the Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative membership through a centralized resource tool.

Goal 4

Obtain resources for project sustainability.

  4.a. Explore funding opportunities to support CLAS goals and objectives

  4.a.i. Grant resources

  4.a.ii. Third party payment and fee services

  4.b. Submit requests for funding

Subcommittee Development

Subcommittee descriptions were discussed:

  - Resource

  - Sustainability

  - Services Offered

  - Needs Assessment

  - Best Practices

 

This committee focuses on four areas: Needs Assessment, Researching Best Practices, Services Offered and Sustainability. It works on a variety of issues related to Client Services through assessing current and future Cultural Competence needs and plans ways to address these needs including researching funding opportunities and best practices.

Members present spent time updating the needs assessment draft developed by the subcommittee. 

Logic Model

The logic model subcommittee focuses on strategic planning. It works to develop a workplan in a logic model format to address the cultural competency committee goals. The tool will be used:

  1. as an internal and external communication tool

  2. for incorporation into grant applications that mayo require it or components of it and

  3. for evaluation purposes

 

Educational/Awareness

Increase cultural competency education and awareness through communication of information and resources.

Training/workshops/materials

  - Website Toolkit

  - Outreach

 

Our first objective is to locate cultural competency trainings already established in the community.