HERC Webinar: "Organizational Assessment of Cultural Competence: Implications for Faculty and Staff at HERC Institutions"February 10, 2015 at 11 a.m. to noon

The Office of the Provost invites you to join us for this Webinar. Please also feel free to share with any interested staff in your office.

Organizational self-assessment is a necessary, effective, and systematic way to plan for and incorporate cultural competence. An assessment should address attitudes, behaviors, policies, structures, and practices of an organization or program, including those of its faculty, staff, students, board members, and volunteers. This workshop will explore the benefits of and a process for conducting organizational self-assessment within institutions of higher education.

Presenter: Tawara Goode is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Professor Goode is Director of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) at GUCCHD. She has degrees in early childhood education and education and human development. The NCCC has been in existence for the past 18 years during which Professor Goode was the director for 16. The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity. Professor Goode is recognized as a thought leader in the area of cultural and linguistic competence, and for building the NCCC into a nationally and internationally recognized and award winning program. Learn more about NCCC at: http://nccc.georgetown.edu/