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Statewide Resources
- Many Voices, One Direction: Building a Common Agenda for Cultural Competence in Mental Health
- Gender Matters in Mental Health: An Initial Examination of Gender-Based Data, Publication of the CA Women's Mental Health Policy Council February 2004
- Health for All: California's Strategic Approach to Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Summary November 2003
Mental Health Services Act
Nationwide Resources
- Annotated Bibliography on Cultural Psychiatry and Related Topics
- A Practical Guide for Implementing the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care
- Surgeon General's Report: Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity
- National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care
- NASMHPD Publications
- Assuring Cultural Competence in Health Care: Recommendations for National Standards and an Outcomes-Focused Research Agenda
- Cultural Competence Standards In Managed Care Mental Health Services: Four Underserved/Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups.
- Cultural Competency Methodological and Data Strategies to Assess the Quality of Service in Mental Health Systems of Care" Carol Siegel, G. Haugland, E. Davis. Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health
- Georgetown Cultural Competency Organizational Assessment Tools
- Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons.
- Institute of Medicine Report, Unequal Treatment Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. 2002
- National Network of Medical Libraries resources dealing with minority health concerns
- National Technical Assistance Center for State Mental Health Planning
- SAMHSA article on Women & Violence
- The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born
- Organizational Cultural Competence: A Review of Assessment Protocols
Ethnic/Cultural Specific Resources
- Asian-Nation - http://www.asian-nation.org/index.shtml