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.
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.
eCALD offers a range of online, remote face-to-face (virtual) and face-to-face courses for both caring for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) migrant and refugee clients or patients from Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African backgrounds, as well as for working in culturally diverse workplaces. All courses focus on facilitating the acquisition of knowledge, the development of cultural awareness and sensitivity to cultural factors, and provide opportunities to apply these as skills in practice.
View eligibility information View upcoming coursesThese 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.
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.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new training programme for clinicians interested in developing awareness, sensitivity and knowledge of cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD) factors when working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) clients in a psychiatric context. The programme provides many case examples and vignettes and opportunities to apply awareness, sensitivity and knowledge to develop skills in engagement, assessment, cultural formulation, treatment, and collaboration in practice.
Find out moreeCALD Services have produced this video to demonstrate to clinicians "what is needed and what to expect for a video appointment when using an interpreter".
Our module "Working with CALD clients in Palliative care" will help learners to acquire understanding, strategies and practical skills to work with CALD clients and families during palliative and end-of-life care.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming 16 August 2022 Webinar An update on the Caring for People with Dementia Together 護腦同行 (CPT) project". Registration is open.
The interpreter workforce is highly essential for assisting clinicians to communicate effectively with non-English speaking and limited English speaking clients. Provision of telehealth interpreting services are crucial and we are pleased to have a course to upskill interpreters in this area. Check out other useful courses for interpreters to gain cultural awareness, knowledge and sensitivity when engaging in the healthcare settings.
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.
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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