Cultural Competence

CIRRIE is pleased to provide cultural competency resources by continuing some programs begun in our last cycle as well as developing new initiatives.

• Providing Culturally Competent Disability Services, an international conference to be held in October 2008.
• The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born, an eleven-volume monograph series, provides specific information on cultural perspectives of foreign–born persons in the United States. New monographs are being developed.
• Culture and Disability: Providing Culturally Competent Services, our book published by SAGE Publications based on the monograph series.
• Successful Outreach to Foreign–Born Consumers through Culture Brokering, a computer based tutorial in CD–Rom format.
• Asian Culture Briefs, a collaborative project between the National Technical Assistance Center for Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities and CIRRIE based on the monograph series.
• Culture in the Curriculum, targeting pre–service university training by creating new curriculum materials tailored to four professional programs.
• Culture Brokering Workshop from the Institute for Community Inclusion.