Primarily a training and consulting organization supported by a wide array of multilingual publications available for purchase through our online store, CCHCP endeavors to enhance the abilities of health professionals to provide culturally competent and linguistically appropriate care.

Vision

Healthcare in every Community, every Community in Healthcare.

Mission

Recognizing the diversity and the different ways to health, the mission of the Cross Cultural Health Care Program is to serve as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.

Goals

• Collaborate with ethnic communities to gain full participation in the health care system.
• Maintain a center for cultural competence to make educational materials available.
• Improve and provide training opportunities for interpreters.
• Provide awareness training programs for providers.
• Collaborate with institutions in outreach to ethnic community members' participation in health careers.
• Provide leadership in the management of effective interpreter services within institutional settings.
• Empower underserved communities through support and advocacy, education, and community development to achieve self-directed access and use of health care resources.
• Undertake and support community-based research and develop models to improve and set standards for cross-cultural health care.

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