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 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
Check out what we have achieved for the period Feb 2017 to Jan 2018
![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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Latest updates
Jun 2018
Indian Families Social Group [July 2018]
Disability Connect is delighted to announce our Indian Families Social Group for July 2018. This meeting will be in a relaxed ‘conversational’ environment, without an official speaker. The group especially welcomes all parents from the Indian Continent and South Asia.
May 2018
Pre and Post CALD Training Evaluation Study 2018
NEW EVALUATION STUDY RELEASED!! eCALD® Services has just released the “Pre and Post CALD Training Evaluation Study” (Mortensen, Lim & Puddle, 2018). From 2015, the New Zealand Government accepted an additional 600 Emergency Quota Refugees (EQR) from Syria for resettlement in Palmerston North, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.