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Building Bridges of Cultural Understanding: Enhancing Healthcare for the Hispanic and Latino Community

Online
On Demand Education
2.75 CE Hours
Cultural Competency, General
Free

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Description

Culture is an enduring element, a tradition that is embedded in every human thought, emotion, and behavior. Culture is also a key factor that upholds normed belief patterns that maintain physical and psychological health and contributes to healthcare outcomes. This presentation is for professionals interested in learning how to integrate the patient’s cultural traditions and beliefs into effective clinical treatment with Hispanic and Latino individuals.

 

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase participants’ understanding of integrating patients’ cultural traditions and beliefs into effective clinical treatment with Hispanic and Latino individuals.

 

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain social and historical determinants of health.

  • Discuss three ways social and historical determinants of health impact the Hispanic and Latino populations.

  • Identify and describe two or more cultural elements or values that inform assessment and treatment interventions with Hispanic and Latino individuals

  • Identify two or more culturally responsive approaches in health care and discuss the historical significance of these approaches.

  • Prepare to use two or more culturally informed engagement strategies in practice.

CE Details
Introductory
Cultural Competency
General

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

 

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

 

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2.75 continuing education credits.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.Health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.75 credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.Health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 2.75 ANCC contact hours.

 

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

 

CE Policy
Agenda
  • Waiting Room Opens
  • Workshop Begins
  • -
    5 minute break
  • -
    5 minute break
  • Workshop Ends
Note: Time designated for waiting room, breaks cannot be counted toward CE credit.
This course is fiscally sponsored by Aetna Better Health Louisiana. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
Michelle Evans DSW, LCSW, CADC

Dr. Michelle Evans is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor. With a passion for serving the Latino population, Dr. Evans has dedicated her career to the evaluation and treatment of individuals with mental health, substance use, and sex addictions, specifically focusing on this population. Presently, Dr. Evans is the Chief Executive Officer at Elgin Mental Health Center, a state psychiatric hospital in Elgin, Illinois. Dr. Evans is also a therapist in private practice at Nickerson & Associates, PC. Beyond her clinical practice, Dr. Evans is a consultant and trainer at the National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. In this role, she has developed and presented culturally competent mental health practices for the Hispanic and Latino communities throughout the United States. Through her work, Dr. Evans actively cultivates equity, justice, and cultural awareness within the mental health field, fostering a more inclusive and sensitive approach to care.

 

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