Cultural Competency and Linguistic Competence: A Strategy to Address Health Disparities and Achieve Health Equity. Identifying the Hispanic/Latino Community. Presenter: Dr. Pierluigi Mancini, PhD

Cultural and Linguistic competence (CLC) has gained attention as a potential strategy to reducing health disparities and achieving health equity in health care. This two-part workshop will examine cultural factors that can affect health and health care, such as language, communication styles, beliefs, implicit bias, attitudes, and behaviors. Additionally, it will examine the cultural aspects that are important when serving the Hispanic/Latino community. This workshop will examine how cultural competence can affect delivery of services in your practice and provide tools to identify and overcome barriers to reduce disparities through culturally and linguistically responsive and unbiased quality care. Multicultural Development Institute "œBridging the Cultural Gap through Education and Training" aims to define health equity and disparities, identify the Hispanic/Latino community, and understand culture and cultural competence. Participants will also learn how culture affects interventions, grasp the concept of implicit bias, and receive actionable steps to improve service delivery, ultimately providing 4 CE hours of valuable insight for healthcare professionals.