Resources for Family Planning Providers

The Ed Fund’s Cultural Competency Assessment Process for Family Planning Providers

Based on the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS), the Ed Fund developed a user-friendly assessment process to help family planning centers evaluate the needs of their increasingly diverse patient population.  This assessment includes both staff surveys and organizational checklists.  To find out more about this assessment and the tools utilized, please contact the Ed Fund at info@edfundfpa.org.

Cultural Competency Resources

• The U.S. Office of Minority Health: Cultural Competency
• National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service (CLAS), The Office of Minority Health
• The National Center for Cultural Competence
• Diversity Rx

Linguistic Competency and Interpretation Resources

• National Standards of Practice for Interpreting in Health Care
• National Code of Ethics for Interpreting in Health Care
  
• Language Service Resource Guide
• Addressing Language Access in Your Practice: A Toolkit for Physicians and Their Staff Members (California Academy of Family Physicians and CAFP Foundation)

Immigrant Resources

• The Health of Immigrants in New York City (New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene)

Other Organizations Committed to Ensuring Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Reproductive Health Care

• The Center for Immigrant Health, NYU School of Medicine
• The Center for Women in Government & Civil Society at the University at Albany
• National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
• National Council on Interpreting in Health Care
• National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
• New York Immigration Coalition
• Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
• SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective