Enhancing CALD Cultural Competence

We are celebrating our 15th anniversary, with a brand new website showcasing our comprehensive range of digital courses and resources, and our list of milestones and achievements. As part of our celebration, we will be offering prizes between October 2020 to June 2021.

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At eCALD, our vision is to enhance culturally and linguistically diverse cultural competence through the provision of courses and resources for the New Zealand health workforce, for better client/patient outcomes and experience.

CALD cultural competency courses

eCALD offers a range of face-to-face and online courses for both caring for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients from Asian, Middle Eastern and African backgrounds, as well as for working in culturally diverse workplaces. All courses focus on enhancing learners' cultural awareness, sensitivity, knowledge and practical skills.

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Courses for working with CALD patients

These are all our courses for health practitioners who are interested in gaining skills to work with CALD patients from Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African backgrounds.

Courses for culturally diverse workplaces

These courses are for clinical or non-clinical staff who are interested to gain insight and skills to enable effective working relationships in a culturally diverse workplace.

A most useful addition to the CALD learning material

A most useful addition to the CALD learning material. A valuable resource and then I shall recommend to as many people as possible

Online learner (Module 7 Working with religious diversity)

Thoroughly designed online training course

This is a thoroughly designed training course for interpreters which covers a lot of practical issues that we have met during the practice. We may not need or have the opportunity to apply all the things we have learnt in this course in our practice, but with the awareness, it will make interpreters feel more of control of our job. It also gives us more confidence to do our job better, and our communications with the health practitioners [HPs] and patients will be smoother.

Interpreter (Module 201 Interpreting remotely in the healthcare setting)

Another excellent course from the eCALD team

Another excellent course from the eCALD team, I have attended others which were face to face but this was the first online course. I am grateful to have been able to complete this at my own pace and in small chunks. Will certainly recommend to colleagues. The variety of scenarios, reading, questions, reflection all helped to make the course more enjoyable from an online learning perspective.

Phamacist

It felt novel and different.

It [the online course'] felt novel and different from other online modules I have done. Interesting and engaging graphics and [the online content is] presented [in] different ways of learning.

Palliative care clinician

Course was fun and interactive

“The course was fun, interactive with immense wealth of knowledge. It provides very easy and practical application.”

Public Health Nurse (F2F Module 5 Working with Communicable Diseases with CALD Clients)

Interpreting remotely in a healthcare setting

eCALD® has launched this new course for interpreters, in both e-learning and remote face-to-face formats, between 2nd April to May 2020. Since then we have trained more than 170 interpreters across the country and received amazing quantitative and qualitative feedback from learners.

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Telehealth consultation involving an interpreter

eCALD Services have produced this video to demonstrate to clinicians "what is needed and what to expect for a video appointment when using an interpreter".

Working with CALD clients in Palliative care course

We have recently launched our new online course "Working with CALD clients in Palliative care". Watch the videos to find out what the course offers, what learners say about the course, and how to register and enrol.

Cross-Cultural Interest Group (CCIG) Upcoming June 2021 Seminar

Register early!! Dr Antonio Fernando is speaking at our 30th June CCIG Seminar on "Overview of Sleep Disorders". Our in-person registration is already full. We are now only taking registration for attending remotely via zoom.

Module 5 - Working with Communicable Diseases with CALD Clients

We have a brand new face-to-face course “Working with Communicable Diseases with CALD clients”. Check out what the course offers and what learners say about the course!

Remote face-to-face courses now available

eCALD Services are pleased to announce the provision of “remote face-to-face courses delivered by an educator via zoom” in addition to the provision of e-learning courses and face-to-face courses to provide more options to our learners.

Our resources

We provide a range of supplementary resources in addition to the material covered in our courses for enhancing cultural competency. These include cross-cultural resources, translated information, CALD-related publications, screening tools in multiple languages, and a list of migrant and refugee services.

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Online Toolkit

Cross-Cultural Resource

Online Resource

Working with Religious Diversity

Online Resource

Working with CALD Families - Disability Awareness

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