How Cultural and Linguistic Competence Can Reduce Health Disparities in Latinx Communities

You are invited to participate in the How Cultural and Linguistic Competence Can Reduce Health Disparities in Latinx Communities webinar scheduled for Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET. According to SAMHSA’s National Survey of Drug Use and Health, in 2018, 8.6 million Hispanics had a mental or substance use disorder. Yet we continue to see extremely low service utilization rates among Latinos in the United States when it comes to accessing behavioral health services.

Cultural and linguistic competence (CLC) has gained attention as a potential strategy to reducing health disparities and achieving health equity in health care. This webinar will demonstrate how providers can reduce disparities through culturally and linguistically responsive and unbiased quality care including understanding the culturally and linguistically appropriate ways to deliver services to them by examining individual cultural factors that can affect health and health care, such as language, communication styles, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.

Learning Objectives - At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to: 

1. Define Health Equity, Disparities and Literacy.
2. Define Culture and Cultural Competence that affect delivery of services to Latino Communities.
3. Understand the barriers of Culture.
4. Explain the importance of linguistic competency and cross-cultural communication.
5. Discuss solutions to become culturally competent.

Please follow the instructions below to register in advance and log in to the webinar: 

1.  Register for the Webinar: Upon receiving this email, please click the “Register Now” link located above this announcement to register for the event in Zoom. You will receive an email confirmation that will include the link for the webinar once you register. Please save this email as you will need the included link to connect to the webinar. 

2.  Log into the Webinar: A few minutes before the webinar, access Zoom by following the steps below: 

• Go to the Zoom site by clicking the link provided in your registration confirmation email.
• When prompted to “Open Zoom Meetings”, you can select this from the system dialog that will appear in a pop-up window. If nothing prompts from your browser, please follow the suggestions provided on the screen. 
• Please note, attendees can only connect through computer audio by default. You will receive a call-in number in the registration confirmation email. We recommend you make note of this phone number and meeting ID, if this option is preferred. Otherwise, please be sure your computer speaker volume is up so you can hear the presentation.

Please feel free to forward this email to any other members of your team. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at RCORP-TA@jbsinternational.com.