Commissioner Michael F. Hogan, PhD
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
Cultural Competence Webinar Education
Archived Webinar Education and Information Videos
The Bureau of Cultural Competence (BCC) conducts Cultural and Linguistic Competence webinars for OMH facilities and licensed programs for educational and informational purposes. BCC strives to provide specific cultural and linguistic competence webinars to meet the changing needs of the diverse populations served in the New York State behavioral health system. The webinars highlight the importance of engagement, Federal/State Laws and other licensing requirements, cultural assessment, treatment planning and the road to recovery.
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| Date | Title/Description | Presenter |
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| 4/13/12 | "Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Information on the OMH 725 Patient Admission Form " The presentation will discuss the importance of inclusiveness of sexual orientation and gender identification information on admissions forms as this information can assist in provide data on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) population served in order to meet Federal, State and accreditation requirements. The information can be used to enhance services through appropriate LGBT training, treatment, practices, and access to services. |
Dr. Barbara Warren Dr. Christian Huygen Dr. Suzy Ritholz Dr. Daniel Garza |
| 4/11/12 | "Healthcare/Medicaid Reform: Opportunities for Recovery and Cultural Competence" This presentation will discuss Health Homes, Behavioral Health Organizations (BHOs), and Managed Care and the challenges, hope, and opportunities for recovery, community integration, peer support that infuses cultural competence. This webinar will discuss on how cultural competence can play a vital role in Health Homes, Behavioral Health Organizations BHOs). |
Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director, New York Adult Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services |
| 4/11/12 | "Adapting Treatment for Culturally Diverse Youth
" This presentation was presented to discuss and provide evidence-base cultural and linguistic treatment models that focuses on the "Intervention-Practice- Organization: Provider-Client interactions" that promote "tailored cultural competent" treatment services to the clients and families served in the children and youth behavioral health care system of NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH). The presentation sets the stage for the "next steps" that NYS OMH Children and Family Division should take in this process. Presented on 4/11/12 by |
Dr. Vivian H. Jackson, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, and Senior Policy Associate National Center of cultural Competence Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development. |
| 4/4/12 | " Bridging Culture Distance " This webinar presentation will discuss strategies for working with Interpreters to enhance Mental Health Care for Patients with Limited English Proficiency. Presented by Doris F. Chang, Ph.D., NYSPI Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence and the New School for Social Research & Wilma Alvarado-Little, MA, MSW, Community Engagement/Outreach Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities University at Albany, SUNY. |
Doris F. Chang, Ph.D., NYSPI Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence and the New School for Social Research. Wilma Alvarado-Little, MA, MSW, Community Engagement/Outreach Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities University at Albany, SUNY |
| 3/19/12 | "
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Parenting
": This presentation will inform the participants about the longstanding and growing phenomenon of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people raising children. We will discuss different paths LGBT parents have taken and are taking toward creating a family, as well as recent US Census data on families across the US. The scientific literature on children of LGBT parents will be reviewed. Issues children with LGBT parents may face, as well as issues parents may cope with will be discussed, with suggestions given for how to support the children and their families for clinicians working with them. |
Dr. Mary Barber, MD, Clinical Director, Rockland PC |
| 3/12/12 | “Recovery Centers: Peers Building Social Capital” Recovery Centers will build on the existing best practices in self-help / peer support / mutual support. Specific staff competencies will enhance each Center’s ability to incorporate the principles of “Olmstead” helping individuals to truly become part of their communities. In order to assist individual members with community integration, a key function of Recovery Centers will be to assist individuals in identifying, remembering or discovering their own passions in life: |
Joseph Swinford, Deputy Director, Consumer Recipient of Affairs |
| 1/26/12 | “Cultural Competency in Mental Health Programs”
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Nathan Kline Institute Staff |
| 11/14/11 & 11/17/11 | “Medicaid & Supplemental Security Income (SSI)”: View Part 1 | View Part 2 The Medicaid and SSI presentation involves a two part series in which mental health and service providers are informed of how to effectively advocate for these benefits and how to acquire resources and information about these benefits for the consumers and family members that they serve. |
Tom O'Clair, Recipient Affairs Specialist from NYS Office of Mental Health Consumer of Recipient Affairs |
| 9/19/11 | "Interpreters: Why Language and Culture Matters in Behavioral Health Services" This presentation will briefly discuss the important roles that interpreters play in behavioral health services, laws and regulations that support interpreter/translation usage, and how culture and language can impact the relationship between the client and provider. |
Wilma Alvarado-Little: Director, Community Engagement/Outreach Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities University at Albany, State University at Albany (SUNY) |
| 8/15/11 | "Health and Wellness Photovoice Project: Engaging Consumers to Inform and Implementation of Health Intervention in Housing Agencies" This webinar discussed how housing agencies can engage its consumers in order to identify health and community disparities through the use of photos in which the consumer tells a story about it. Interventions are developed and implemented between the housing agency and consumers to address the disparities to improve the quality of health and care of the consumer. |
Leopoldo J. Cabassa, Ph.D., Assistant Director of NYS Psychiatric Institute: Centers of Excellence for Cultural Competence. |
| 7/27/11 & 7/28/11 | "Smoking Cessation" Part 1: Assessment and Counseling | Part 2: Medication This webinar discussed OMH's Smoking Cessation Initiative that will involve efforts to increase "Assessment and Counseling" and "Medication" access and resources for tobacco cessation to form an important OMH strategy. |
Dr. Gregory Miller: Medical Director, Adult Services NYS OMH and Teresa Armon, RN MS NPP , OMH Adult Services, Tobacco Cessation Initiative Co-Director (co-presenter). |
| 6/17/11 | "Cultural Competence: It Starts at the Front Desk" The presentation discussions the importance and roles the "Front Desk" personnel play when engaging clients and family members in a behavioral health environment. It is the first contact between the client and provider which can make or break the foundation of the client-provider relationship. First impressions matter and sometimes a provider has one shot to connect to the client and family. The concepts in how to establish a Cultural Competent Front Desk was provide by Georgetown University National Center of Cultural Competence which is presented in this video. |
Hextor Pabon, Education and Training Coordinator, Bureau of Cultural Competence |
| 6/7/11 | "New York Makes Work Pay: Developing a Path to Employment for New Yorkers with Disabilities" This webinar will discuss NYS Office of Mental Health's (OMH) Work Initiative that is meant to increase employment opportunities for individuals living with mental problems and/or disability. Michael Seereiter of the OMH, Office of Consumer Affairs will inform the audience of the OMH employment initiative. |
Michael Seereiter, NYS Office of Mental Health, Office of Consumer Affairs |
| 5/16/11 | "Engaging Latinos and Hispanics in Mental Health Treatment" This video briefly introduces and discusses engagement skills for behavioral health providers to consider when engaging Latinos/Hispanics in mental health treatment and services. The importance of Latino /Hispanic culture values of familia, personalismo, and respeto are introduced. Providers need to understand and address the language needs and cultural beliefs and practices of Latinos and Hispanics too. |
Hextor Pabon, NYS Office of Mental Health, Bureau of Cultural Competence |
| 5/4/11 | "PSYCKES: Supporting Person-Centered Care in the NYS Public Mental Health System" Watch Part One of the Webinar | Watch Part Two of the Webinar The PSYCKES video has two parts in which Edith Healy informs the audience of PSYCKES initiatives that her agency is currently working and what is its use with the focus to improve the quality of care and services for recipients receiving of mental health services from OMH facilities, programs, and licensed OMH agencies throughout New York State. |
Edith Healy: Deputy Director, NYS Office of Mental Health Evidence Base Services & Information Sciences |
| 4/26/11 | "Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postventation in a Culturally Diverse World" This video presentation informs all viewers that "cultural and language matters" when address suicide prevention, education, and training. Cultural and linguistic considerations must be considered and understood in order to help others who have different beliefs, values, views of suicide. This presentation discusses how the viewers can enhance their competency skills. | Melanie Puorto OMH, Director of Suicide Prevention Initiative |
| 3/16/11 | "What Works and Doesn't Work". Presented by Mr. Michael Posner. This video production was done at the Rainbow Height Social Club located in Brooklyn, New York. This video explored "What works and Doesn't work" for LGBT individuals when seeking behavioral health and social support services. Rainbow Height members shared their stories for behavioral health providers to learn from. | Mr. Michael Posner |
| 2/17/11 | "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) People Living with Serious Mental Illness". Presented by Dr. Mary Barber, Maryland Rockland Psychiatric Center. Dr. Barber discusses how clinical behavioral health providers can better engage LGBT people with serious mental illness in a clinical setting. Understanding "what sexual orientation" and "serious mental illness" means, especially from the LGBT person point-of-view is a key component that can assist providers in being more competent in serving LGBT consumers. | Dr. Mary Barber, MD Clinical Director of Rockland PC |
Comments or questions about the information on this page can be directed to the Bureau of Cultural Competence.