Region 2 Public Health Training Center
Expansive Connections: Integrating Cultural Humility in Public Health Practice
This is an all levels course offering CPH — Free
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Free

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< 3 minutes

Length

1.50 hours

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This course delves into integrating cultural humility into public health practice, defining key concepts like cultural humility and resonance, and examining their impact. Participants will learn to view cultural humility as a lifelong process, emphasizing continuous learning and addressing power imbalances. The course will cover essential attributes such as openness, self-awareness, and supportive interactions, and develop skills for recognizing and managing personal biases. Additionally, it will offer strategies for effective communication with diverse stakeholders and provide techniques for maintaining well-being and sustaining cultural humility in professional practice.

This learning opportunity topic is aligned with one or more of the strategic skills.  

This learning opportunity addresses training topics identified in PHWINS 2017. 

 

What You'll Learn

  1. Define cultural humility, resonance, and related concepts, and describe the impact of cultural humility in public health settings.  
  2. Understand cultural humility as a process, with a commitment to lifelong learning and addressing power imbalances.  
  3. Identify attributes of cultural humility, including openness, self-awareness, humbleness, supportive interactions, and self-reflection.  
  4. Develop skills to recognize and manage personal biases.  
  5. Practice communication strategies to foster expansive connections among diverse stakeholders, including resonant language skills, transforming judgments and blame, and setting boundaries.  
  6. Gain practical skills for recharging and recovering, to enhance well-being and sustain cultural humility within public health practitioners.  

Competency Terms

Cultural Competency Skills
Cultural Influence on Policies, Programs, & Services
Public Health Science Skills

Related Occupations

Department/Bureau Director
Health Educator
Public health - multiple occupations will benefit
Public Health Manager/Program Manager

Related Job Tasks

Communicate effectively to inform and educate people about health, factors that influence it, and how to improve it
Strengthen, support, and mobilize communities and partnerships to improve health
Assure an effective system that enables equitable access to the individual services and care needed to be healthy

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