The Cross Cultural Health Care Program
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program
270 So. Hanford St.
Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98134
Phone: (206) 860-0329
Fax: (206) 860-0334
E-mail: administration@xculture.org
The
mission of the Cross Cultural Health Care Program is to serve as a
bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full
access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically
appropriate. Goals include collaboration ethnic communities to gain
full participation in the health care system; maintaining a center for
cultural competence to make educational materials available; improving
and providing training opportunities for interpreters; providing
awareness training programs for providers; collaborating with
institutions in outreach to ethnic community members' participation in
health careers; providing leadership in the management of effective
interpreter services within institutional settings; empowering
underserved communities through support and advocacy, education, and
community development to achieve self-directed access and use of health
care resources; undertake and support community-based research and
develop models to improve and set standards for cross-cultural health
care.
