Enhancing CALD Cultural Competence
Cultural diversity in the New Zealand population is growing leading to increasing cross cultural interactions between clinicians and patients and between employees.
CALD refers to culturally and linguistically diverse groups who are migrants and refugees from Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African (MELAA) backgrounds.
Check out what we have achieved for the period Feb 2018 to Jan 2019
eCALD educational programme won a major award at the 2018 Diversity Awards NZ
Check out the findings of the newly released “Pre and Post CALD Training Evaluation Study 2018”
Hear what the health workforce have to say about the increasing diversity, the impact it has on cross-cultural interactions and why cultural competence is essential
Take a look at our ‘Cross-cultural Resource for Health Practitioners’ which has tips on Asian, Middle Eastern and African cultures
![Our "Caring for Asian Children" [e-Book] offers strategies on how to be responsive to Asian families when caring for their children!](/assets/PromoGraphics/Asian-Children-Resource.png)
Our "Caring for Asian Children" [e-Book] offers strategies on how to be responsive to Asian families when caring for their children!
A new course "Working in a Mental Health Context with CALD Children and Adolescents" is now available
If you are caring for CALD women during their pregnancy, birth, and postnatal period, here is a resource for you!
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Feb 2019
Hamilton Multicultural Services Trust launches multilingual settlement information service for migrants
Immigration New Zealand has recently announced the launch of “InfoNOW…in your language” to provide a multi-lingual settlement information service for recent migrants in their preferred language.
Feb 2019
Mental Health and Addiction in Aotearoa New Zealand: Recent trends in service use, unmet need, and information gaps [2018]
The “Mental Health and Addiction in Aotearoa New Zealand – Recent trends in service use, unmet need, and information gaps (July 2018)” report, produced by Sheree Gibb and Ruth Cunningham, University of Otago, Wellington, provides recent and previously unpublished information on the mental health and mental health service use of...