Language: Challenges and Opportunities

• Multi-language translations of Consent to Treatment Forms:
     "Bill of Rights" & "Waiver of Intrepreters Services"
  • (pdf) Chinese
  • (pdf) Korean
  • (pdf) Russian
  • (pdf) Spanish
  • (pdf) Vietnamese
  • (pdf) English: Bill of Rights
  • (pdf) English: Waiver of Intrepreters Services

• Language Assistance Self-Assessment and Planning Tool for Recipients of Federal Financial Assistance (pdf)
  This two-part document is intended to assist organizations that receive Federal financial assistance in their strategic planning efforts to ensure that program goals and objectives address meaningful access for all of the people they serve or encounter, including those who are limited-English proficient.
   - Provided by The Interagency Working Group on LEP
  
  
• "I Speak" Language Identification Flashcard (pdf)
  From the Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, the "I Speak" Language Identification Flashcard is written in 38 languages and can be used to identify the language spoken by an individual accessing services provided by federally assisted programs or activities
  
  
• KNOW YOUR RIGHTS (pdf)
  Answers these questions:
  • Are you Limited English Proficient? (LEP)
  • Have you tried to get benefits or services from the government or an organization but were unable to because you cannot read, speak, write or understand English well enough?
  • Did you know that this could be a form of national origin discrimination?
  • What is national origin discrimination?
  
  
  
• Cultural Competency Assessment Resources
  
  
  • Campinha-Bacote, J. (1998). Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence (IAPCC) Among Health Care Professionals.
    Write to: Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates, 11108 Hunwicke Place. Cincinnati, OH 45241.
    
    
  • Mason, James L. (1995). Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Questionnaire. A Manual for Users.
    Write to: Portland State University, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health Regional Research Institute for Human Services, Graduate School of Social Work, P.O.Box, 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751
    
    
  • National Public Health and Hospital Institute (1997). Self-Assessment of Cultural Competence.
    Write to: NPHHI, 1212 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC, 20005
    
    
  • Tirado, Miguel D. (1996). Tools for Monitoring Cultural Competence in Health Care.
    Write to: Latino Coalition for a Health California, 1535 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103.