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Good morning,
Is there a tool box for disability and sensitivity training for radiologic technologist?
Thank you so much,

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Hi Tina,
 
Welcome to the Community Tool Box (CTB) and Ask an Advisor, I hope we can provide with timely, useful, and directly applicable information to help you in your important work. If I understand your question, you're looking for a tool box, similar to CTB that provides disability and sensitivity training specifically for radiology technologist, correct? Well, let me say that the larger issue your question addresses, which will be of interest to other CTB visitors, is cultural competence, an issue transcending all professions (even Ask an Advisor!). As you so well know, anyone who engages with others different than themselves needs to be culturally competent whether in terms of race, ethnicity, disability, or whatever. Okay, first I did a Google search, out of curiosity, which didn't yield any useful results specific to your question; this is not to say that there aren't any toolboxes or toolkits out there, I just didn't do an exhaustive search. However, the good news is that we have a lot of great information here in the CTB about cultural competence upon which to base your training. In fact, you could, technically, call what we offer, training (yay). Here we go...if you go to our home page and click on the "Learn A Skill" button, then click on the Table of Contents and scroll down to the section entitled Cultural Competence and Spirituality in Community Building - Information on understanding culture and diversity, how to strengthen multicultural collaboration, and spirituality and community building. For you, Chapter 27 - Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World and toolkit 9 - Enhancing Cultural Competence will be most informative. Now, within Chapter 27 there are 11 sections from which you can pick and choose that are the core of our cultural competence resources and training including: Section 1. Understanding Culture and Diversity in Building Communities (community can be defined many ways such as the medical community); Section 2. Building Relationships with People from Different Cultures; Section 3. Healing from the Effects of Internalized Oppression; Section 4. Strategies and Activities for Reducing Racial Prejudice and Racism; Section 5. Learning to be an Ally for People from Diverse Groups and Backgrounds; Section 6. Creating Opportunities for Members of Groups to Identify Their Similarities, Differences, and Assets; Section 7. Building Culturally Competent Organizations; Section 8. Multicultural Collaboration; Section 9. Transforming Conflicts in Diverse Communities; Section 10. Understanding Culture, Social Organization, and Leadership to Enhance Engagement; and Section 11. Building Inclusive Communities. You could consider each section a training module, and the cool thing is that in many sections there are examples provided that illustrate the key points of those sections. Pretty awesome, right? As I mentioned, toolkit 9 has a lot of great information as well plus examples.
 
So, in sum, Chapter 27 and toolkit 9 will likely yield the most information directly applicable to your question regarding disability and sensitivity training. Remember, these issues transcend all professions so these chapters and toolkit are adaptable to any situation. With that Tina, I hope that this answers your question, if not, please come back and we'll work together to come up with a viable solution. Again, thank you for visiting the CTB and for your great question, we appreciate all that you do. Be well, take care.
 
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Question Date: Mié, 05/04/2016