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Links
Cultural Competence
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown University, Center for Child and Human Development
- NJ Office of Minority and Multicultural Health
- New Jersey Statewide Network for Cultural Competence
- Harvard Implicit Test
- National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care
- Enhanced National CLAS Standards
- World Fact Book
Linguistic Competence
Mental Health
- NJ’s Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services
- NJ Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies
- NJ Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma-NJ
- National Alliance for Mental Health- NJ
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- NJ Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’ s Health
- SAMHSA Publications Ordering
- National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health
Older Adults
Race and Ethnicity
- Center for the Study of White American Culture
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
- The Race Card Project
- Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Race
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ)
- Human Rights Campaign
- Hudson Pride Connections (Hudson County, NJ)
- African American Office of Gay Concerns (Newark, NJ)
- National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health
- HMI: Newark
- The Trevor Project
- Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health
- A Practitioner’s Resource Guide-Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children
- College Guide for Current and Prospective LGBT Students
- LGBT Training Curricula for Behavioral Health and Primary Care Practitioners
- The 30 Best Colleges for LGBT Students
Disability
Organizations
Readings
Articles
- Generational Competence: A conceptual framework for an aging America, Mental Health News, Spring 2011, Michael Friedman, LMSW
- Islamic Marriage Contracts: A Resource Guide For Legal Professionals, Advocates, Imams & Communities, Maha Alkhateeb, Peaceful Families Project, 2012
- African American Gay Youth and Their Families: Redefining Masculinity, Coping with Racism and Homophobia, Journal of GLBT Family Studies, November 2012, Michael C. LaSala and Damien T. Frierson
- Disclosing Mental Illness Among Korean Americans Is Losing Face, Pearl J. Park
- When Hearing Voices is a Good Thing, Olga Khazan
Books
- 101 Movie Clips That Teach and Train, by Becky Pike Pluth
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman
- Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Films
- Color of Fear(see www.stirfryseminars.com)
In The News
- Black Gay Men and Lesbians Find Embrace at Harlem Church
- What’s so Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress
- Disney’s Doc McStuffins Connects with Black Viewers
- The Next Frontier in TV: English News for Latinos
- California Is First State to Ban Gay ‘Cure’ for Minors
- Immigrant Struggles Compounded by Old Age
- About 1 in 3 in N.J. Don’t Speak English at Home, Report Says
- Mighty, Muslim and Leaping Off the Page
- Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?
- Students See Many Slights as ‘Microaggressions’
- Many Hispanics Declaring Themselves White
- Unaccompanied Minors in Morris County Await Their Fate
Past Training Resources
Latino Mental Health Issues: What Can We Learn from the Research?Presented by Peter Guarnaccia, Ph.D., January 15, 2014
Presentation: Latino Mental Health Issues: What Can We Learn from the Research?
Articles:
- Assessing Diversity Among Latinos
- Concepts of Culture and Their Role in the Development of Culturally Competent Mental Health Services
- Culture Specific Diagnoses and Their Relationship to Mood Disorders
