Dr. Vivian Chávez MSW, a California-based public health professional produced a short film exploring cultural humility through storytelling, music, and interviews, highlighting lifelong learning, power differentials, and accountability to build trust, address inequities, and create more inclusive systems and relationships. Watch this 30-minute video to expand your understanding of Cultural Humility and it’s impact in home visiting.
Resource: Cultural Humility: People, Principles, and Practices
The Oregon Health Authority and Intercultural Solutions consulting developed a guide to aid home visitors and supervisors in culturally and linguistically responsive practice, offering reflective tools, inquiry questions, and supervisor guidance to better understand and support families within their cultural contexts.
Switchboard adapted a cultural backgrounder on Afghanistan, originally produced by Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange, to support refugee service workers in providing cultural responsive care to Afghan families who have resettled in the U.S. This Afghanistan cultural backgrounder includes information on the historical context, languages, holidays, traditions, and family dynamics, among other topics.
The Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange (CORE) developed this Syrian cultural backgrounder to support refugee service workers in providing culturally responsive care to Syrian families resettled in the U.S. This Syrian cultural backgrounder includes information on the history, language, family, social life, and cultural considerations for U.S. cultural integration, among others.
Switchboard created a cultural backgrounder on Ukrainians to support refugee service workers in providing cultural responsive care to Ukrainian families who have resettled in the U.S. This Ukrainian cultural backgrounder includes information on the historical context, languages, holidays, traditions, and family dynamics, among other topics.
The Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange (CORE) developed this Congolese cultural backgrounder to support refugee service workers in providing culturally responsive care to families resettled in the U.S. from diverse ethnic groups from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This Congolese cultural backgrounder includes information on the history, language, family, social life, and cultural considerations for U.S. cultural integration, among others.
The Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange (CORE) developed this Rohingya cultural backgrounder to support refugee service workers in providing culturally responsive care to Rohingya families resettled in the U.S. This Rohingya cultural backgrounder includes information on the history, language, family, social life, and cultural considerations for U.S. cultural integration, among others.
Switchboard created a cultural backgrounder on Afrikaners to support refugee service workers in providing cultural responsive care to Afrikaner families who have resettled in the U.S. This Afrikaner cultural backgrounder includes information on the historical context, languages, holidays, traditions, and family dynamics, among other topics.
Bridging Refugee Children & Youth Services (BRYCS) created this toolkit to support staff who work with refugee families in utilizing cultural backgrounders to effectively provide culturally responsive care.
Resource: Using Cultural Backgrounders in Work with Newcomers
Childhood is Sacred Video & Poster. Video discusses how to connect with culture to heal and grow. Poster highlights actions one can take to connect to their culture to heal and grow.
Resource: https://miace.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Video_PACE-D2A_UP-County_PSA-Final.mp4
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