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Notes from a Roundtable on Conceptualizing and Measuring Cultural Competence

Appendix A: Agenda

the Evaluation Center@HSRI Roundtable
Conceptualizing and Measuring Cultural Competence
Denver, Colorado
December 16-17, 1998

Agenda

December 16

8:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30	Welcome and Introductions Courtenay Harding, WICHE
8:50	Overview of the Evaluation Center, Roundtable Purpose and Goals H. Stephen Leff, HSRI Overview of MMHRC Kermit Crawford, Multicultural Mental Health Research Center (MMHRC)
9:10	CMHS Projects Harriet G. McCombs, CMHS
9:30	Practical Measures for Population - Base Planning: A Prerequisite in Developing Culturally Competent Services Josie Romero, Consultant, San Jose, CA
10:00	Defining and Measuring Cultural Competence in the Evaluation of Mental Health Services, Lee Sechrest, Evaluation Group for Analysis of Data, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona
10:30	Break & Networking
11:00	Assessing Cultural Competence in Mental Health Service Delivery, (Paper by Joseph G. Ponterotto, Counseling Psychology Program, Fordham University, New York City) Presenter: H. Stephen Leff, HSRI
11:30	California Plan for Cultural Competence Francis Lu, Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California
12:00	Group Lunch
1:30	Measuring Cultural Competency: Issues and Dilemmas Stanley Sue, National Research Center for Asian American Mental Health, Dept of Psychology, University of California at Davis
2:00	Practical Measures of Cultural Competence in Managed Care Jeff King, Native American Counseling Inc., Denver
2:30	Definitions and Measurement of Cross-Cultural Counseling Competencies (Paper by Frederick T.L. Leong, Depart. of Psychology, Ohio State University) Presenter: H. Stephen Leff, HSRI
3:00	Break
3:15	Cultural Competence Prerequisites for Managed Behavioral Health Care Programs Joseph Torres, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
3:45	Issues Pertinent for the Selection of Cultural Competence Measures in Performance Measurement Systems Mildred Vera, Center for Evaluation and Sociomedical Research, University of Puerto Rico
4:15	Recommendations for Constructs to be Measured by an Instrument on the Cultural Competency of a Mental Health Service from Family Intervention Science Daniel A. Santisteban, Frederick L. Newman, Center for Family Studies, University of Miami
4:45	Wrap-up H. Stephen Leff, HSRI; Jim Stockdill, WICHE
5:00	Adjourn

December 17

8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00	Major Issues Raised in Presentations Jim Stockdill, WICHE; H. Stephen Leff, HSRI; Bob Egnew, Monterey County Mental Health (California); Kermit Crawford, MMHR Center
10:00	Roundtable Discussion (with working break)
11:00	Next Steps H. Stephen Leff, HSRI
11:30	Closing Remarks H. Stephen Leff, HSRI; Courtenay Harding, WICHE
12:00	Adjourn

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