Cultural Wellness Online Training Portal
Welcome the Cultural Wellness Online Training Portal! We’re making learning for providers and practitioners easier than ever before by providing accessible opportunities meet your learning needs and goals.
- STEP 1: Take the courses! We recommend starting with Track 1: Whole Person Approach, and going from there.
- STEP 2: Complete the evaluation for the course and receive your Certificate(s) of Completion.
- STEP 3: Start making positive change for your clients and communities!
- STEP 4: Sign up for our E-Newsletter to be notified of new trainings as they’re added.
Track 1: Core Competencies
These baseline trainings introduce providers to core Cultural Wellness techniques: Whole Person Approach; Cultural Validation and Cultural Integration: Peer to Peer.
Key Learning Objectives
- Identify the importance of Culture, Cultural Wellness techniques, and the Whole Person Approach in improving health outcomes
- Identify the key strategies in Cultural Validation that improve access to care and reduce disparities
- Explore examples of Cultural Integration: Peer to Peer methods that can help to accelerate health and wellness outcomes at the community and cultural level
The Power of Cultural Validation:
Spanish Version
The Cultural Wellness Training Program is pleased to host The Power of Cultural Validation for Spanish-Speaking Public Health Officials, Community Health Workers, and Promotoras.
El Podar de la Validacion el Cultural
(Video: 10 Mins)
Track 2: Understanding & Reaching Disparately Impacted Populations
Cultural Wellness trainings are specially designed to help providers and practitioners better connect with their clients, remove barriers to access, and improve health outcomes, particularly for disparately impacted populations. Our panel of instructors have both professional and lived experiences with the topics they teach. Our panelists and populations are just beginning, and we look forward to adding new presenters soon.
Key Learning Objectives
- Define key terminology and background information for diverse and disparately impacted people and populations
- Identify key disparities faced by different people and communities using the Whole Person Approach
- Explore key Cultural Validation strategies for breaking down barriers to accessibility and inclusion for specific populations
- Identify ways to utilize Cultural Integration and Peer to Peer methods
- Identify best practices that help ensure clients and patients feel safe, heard, valued and respected
Introduction to People Experiencing Homelessness, Poverty and Lower Income
(Video: 62 Minutes)
Coming Soon: Introduction to Black and African American Communities
Track 3: Provider & Agency Tools
These trainings address core needs at the provider, agency and systemic level to create an organizational culture of Cultural Wellness.
Key Learning Objectives
- Recognize opportunities for systemic changes that can help improve accessibility, inclusion and wellness at the agency level
- Identify and make use of tools for eliminating barriers and improving health outcomes
Coming May 2024: Introduction to Inclusive and Accessible Demographic Collection
Coming May 2024: Introduction to Mobility Accessibility
Coming Soon: Introduction to Self-Care for Providers