Cultural Competency: Assessing Organizational Readiness for Change

Authors

Valda Boyd Ford, Director, Community and Multicultural Affairs, Executive Director, Center for Human Diversity University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha NE
Linda Cunningham, Cultural Competence Coordinator, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE

Date of this Version

November 2003

Abstract

How culturally competent is your organization? This session will illustrate the process the University of Nebraska Medical Center used to improve the organizational climate to support cultural competence and the method that was developed to ensure employee participation in the change process