Success Stories by Topic: Cultural competency

• Hispanic Health Outreach Project
  July 2009
  The Hispanic Health Outreach Project provided outreach, education, and case management services to Hispanic residents in Portage and Waupaca counties.
• Valley Health Exchange Network
  July 2009
  The main goal of this project was to help create a community-based health care system that was better equipped to meet the health care needs of a more racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse population in rural Virginia.
• Cherokee Health Systems Rural Outreach Project
  July 2009
  Cherokee Health Systems proposed a collaborative health outreach project to address issues like language barriers, lack of trust in the health care system, and, in many cases, more pressing human needs—such as social services, food, and clothing in this predominately rural Appalachian region.
• Community-Based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes
  July 2009
  The Community-based Care for Persons Living with Type 2 Diabetes program was designed to prevent complications commonly associated with type 2 diabetes.
• Language Links for Healthier Families
  July 2009
  Language Links for Healthier Families was created to increase access to health care for Latino families in south central Georgia through health education and outreach by eliminating language and cultural barriers to quality care.
• Southwest Georgia Multicultural Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Southwest Georgia Multicultural Health Initiative was created to ensure that translation and interpretation assistance was available to individuals with limited English proficiency seeking care at local hospitals and health departments, to improve providers’ understanding of cultural diversity issues related to the people they serve, and to ensure that people with limited English proficiency have access to routine health education and screening services.
• Building Healthy Families Project
  January 2007
  The Building Healthy Families project is designed to meet the unique cultural, social, and linguistic needs of pregnant Hispanic women living in Marshall County.
• Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project
  January 2007
  Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project is a health education and screening project targeting obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke in at-risk African American adolescents and adults in the parishes of Bienville, Lincoln and Jackson.