Overview of Conference Agenda
9:00am – 4:30pm: Full-day Intensive Training Sessions (1 full-day session)
9:00am-12noon: Half-day Intensive Training Sessions (6 half-day sessions, plus focus group option)
12:00pm – 1:30pm: Lunch on Your Own
1:30pm-4:30pm: Half-day Intensive Training Sessions (6 half-day sessions, plus focus group option)
5:00pm-7:00pm: Main conference registration
Tuesday, October 19: Main Conference Day 1
7:30am-8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am: Opening Plenary Session: Introductions & Welcome
9:15am -10:15am: Keynote Address
10:15am: Break
10:45am – 12:15pm: A Workshops: 8 Concurrent Sessions
A-1: Conducting assessments for organizational cultural competence and policy development
A-2: Health profession societies taking the lead on health disparity reduction
A-3: Foundations take the lead in improving health care for diverse populations: successes, challenges and lessons learned
A-4: What's your status? The trials and complexities of health care for undocumented immigrants
A-5: Strategies for improving health care delivery to LGBT patients
A-6: The patient voice on perceptions of health and satisfaction: understanding the tools and results
A-7: Language barriers and the law: a focus on malpractice claims and how to address language in the pharmacy
A-8: Improving access and services for deaf and hard of hearing populations
12:15pm -1:45pm: Networking Lunch
1:45pm -3:45pm: B Workshops: 8 Concurrent Sessions
B-1: Setting standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Care: Models and lessons from the US and abroad
B-2: Mandating cultural competence - what impact does it have?
B-3: Collecting race, ethnicity and language data: perspectives and progress from the field
B-4: Organizational transformation for cultural competence: a Peer-to-Peer Practice Advancement Session
B-5: Improving access to behavioral health services for ethnic minority populations; barriers, strategies and solutions
B-6: Health reform for diverse populations
B-7: Interpreter standards & certification: National initiatives
B-8: Innovative approaches for reaching out to diverse communities
3:45pm: Break
4:00pm: Film Festival & Roundtable Sessions
Film Festival
Roundtable A: Innovative Practices and Solutions for Health Disparities from State Offices of Minority Health
Roundtable B: Establishing Quality Criteria for Cultural Competence Trainings
Roundtable C: Building Cultural Competence through Sustainable Change: Findings from the NCHL Diversity Leadership Demonstration Project
Roundtable D: Policy strategies for improving minority and immigrant health: an international roundtable
Roundtable E: Community Health Workers: Strategies, outcomes and lessons learned - A Peer-to-Peer Practice Advancement Session
Roundtable F: Video Medical Interpreting: A Peer-to-peer practice advancement session
6:00pm-7:30pm: Opening Reception - Resource Center - Exhibits, Poster Presentations
Wednesday, October 20: Main Conference Day 2
7:30am-8:30am: Continental Breakfast – Resource Center
Special Session: Lessons Learned
8:30am-9:45am: Plenary Session
9:45am: Break – Resource Center
10:15am-12:15pm: C Workshops – 8 Concurrent Sessions
C-1: Using demographic data to reduce disparities: lessons from the field
C-2: Cultural competence training: What should it be and how it should be taught?
C-3: Using technology to improve organizational access to information about diverse populations
C-4: Bilingualism, culture, and patient-centered care: issues of role for medical interpreters
C-5: Beyond 'input:' Getting real community involvement in health program design and delivery
C-6: The National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy: Goals and Strategies
C-7: Pursuing quality improvement in language services
C-8: Strategies for understanding and motivating behavior in patients with diabetes
12:15pm-2:00pm: Lunch & Resource Center
12:30pm: INNOVATIVE SESSION: “MAMA, DON'T CRY: THE DOCTOR SAYS I HAVE CANCER” How to Provide Safe Interpreting for Children and their Families
2:00pm-4:00pm: D Workshops – 8 Concurrent Sessions
D-1: Assessing cultural competence in individuals: constructs and tools
D-2: Racism, Disparities and Micro-inequities: Perceptions and consequences
D-3: High Performance Health Systems - An initiative from The Commonwealth Fund
D-4: Strategies to address patient safety and quality improvement for diverse populations
D-5: Research and diverse populations: strategies to enhance participation and program design
D-6: Practical strategies to implement health literacy programs in health care organizations
D-7: Improving how interpreter services are delivered in health care organizations: lessons for clinicians and interpreters
D-8: Special needs, special populations: culture and autism, Down's syndrome and genetic counseling
4:00pm: Break - Resource Center
4:15pm -6:00pm: “YOUR VOICE” dialogue sessions
YOUR VOICE: Cultural Competence Training
YOUR VOICE: Race, Ethnicity and Language Data Collection
YOUR VOICE: Innovative Strategies for Health Promotion
YOUR VOICE: Extending Cultural Competence to Leadership
AFFINITY GROUPS
other sessions will be added
Thursday, October 21: Main Conference Day 3
7:30am-8:30am: Continental Breakfast
8:30am-10:00am: Plenary Session
10:00am: Break
10:30am-12:30pm: E Workshops – 6 Concurrent Sessions
E-1: Issues in interpretation: training, bilingual employees, and LOTS (Languages other than Spanish)
E-2: Effective cultural competence training: Strategies and lessons learned
E-3: Developing, managing and disseminating translated written materials
E-4: Topics in emergency preparedness for culturally diverse communities
E-5: Issues in mental health for diverse populations
E-6: The strengths of a partnership model for health outreach, disease prevention and improving access
12:30pm: Luncheon with Speaker
2:00pm-3:30pm: F Workshops - 5 Concurrent Sessions
F-1: State Legislators' Efforts to Address Health Disparities and Move Toward Health Equity
F-2: Interprofessional education on cultural competence
F-3: Before the interpreter comes: Strategies to address immediate language needs
F-4: Facilitating consumer engagement in organizational planning for cultural competence
F-5: Using immigrant health professionals as a workforce diversity and cultural competence strategy