RSV 2022 Session 5B: The National CLAS Standards: A Strategy to Help Achieve Health Equity (Day 1)

The National CLAS Standards are a set of 15 action steps intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services.

This session provided a general overview of the importance of cultural and linguistic services in behavioral health and evaluate how the CLAS standards can help improve your services.

Learning Objectives:

• Define health equity, disparities, and literacy
• Introduce the National CLAS standards
• Demonstrate how to implement the CLAS standards to decrease health disparities and achieve health equity

Presenter(s):

• Pierluigi Mancini, PhD, President, Multicultural Development Institute, Inc.

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