Definitions

http://www.xculture.org/training/overview/cultural/index.html
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program of Seattle has compiled some definitions of Cultural Competency.

http://www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/publications/cultural_competency/competency_4.htm
Additional definitions from the Ministry of Children & Family Health, Government of British Columbia.

Guides

"A Youth Leader's Guide to Building Cultural Competence," by Susan A. Messina
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/guide/
Meet the challenges of providing HIV/STD and sexuality education to culturally diverse groups. Using a four step model, this resource helps build the attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary to reach all groups of young people. Focuses on African American, Latino and lesbian, gay and bisexual teens.

General Articles

How is Cultural Competence Integrated in Education?
http://cecp.air.org/cultural/Q_integrated.htm
This document prepared by an expert panel of researchers, practitioners, family members, and policymakers, provides a brief conceptual background for cultural competence, and illustrates the elements of cultural competence in programs serving children with or at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance, includes references.

Cultural Competence: Establishing a Knowledge Structure
http://164.109.22.196/diversity/diversecompet.htm

Cultural Competence
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/gucdc/nccc/ncccplannersguide.html
This planner’s guide was developed by the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC). It is designed to assist meeting and conference planners infuse principles, content and themes related to cultural and linguistic competence.

Helping Children Develop Cultural Competence
http://ohioline.osu.edu/flm00/pdf/fs05.pdf

Web Sites

Educational Justice
http://www.edjustice.org/
This organization's stated mission is "to promote quality education for students of all races and cultures." To that end, they tackle issues of educational equity, culture, and institutional racism in education. Site includes curriculum organized by culture groupings, such as Latino/Chicano and Indigenous/Native People.

Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
http://www.clas.uiuc.edu/
This site presents a dynamic and evolving database of materials describing culturally and linguistically appropriate practices for early childhood/early intervention services.

The Center for Effective Collaboration and Practices - Cultural Competence
http://cecp.air.org/cultural/default.htm
Discussion of what Cultural Competence is and why it is important.

Cultural Competence Online
http://www.culturalcomptence2.com
Find information, resources, and products for organizations, businesses, and training institutions committed to cultural competence.

National Center for Cultural Competence (Georgetown University)
http://gucdc.georgetown.edu/nccc/
The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health programs to design, implement and evaluation culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems.