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9. Enhancing Cultural Competence | Community Tool Box

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Example 1: Hispanic Outreach Services, Long Island Center for Independent Living for People with Disabilities

The Long Island Center for Independent Living (LICIL) is a non-residential, consumer-run, community-based organization that provides services by and for people with all types of disabilities within Nassau County on Long Island, New York.

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Example 2: Cultural Adaptation of a Youth Mental Health Intervention in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

The ‘Qaderoon’ (Arabic for ‘we are capable’) intervention addressed improving the mental health of Palestinian youth in the Burj el Barajneh (BBC) Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Example 3: Inclusive Dubuque

Inclusive Dubuque is a peer-learning network of partners committed to supporting an equitable and inclusive culture to meet the economic and cultural needs of their diverse community. The network works collaboratively to eliminate bias in their community.

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Example 4: Reframing Childhood Obesity: Cultural Insights on Nutrition, Weight, and Food Systems

This report focuses on three key areas in which cultural insights and global examples can help improve health policy around childhood obesity by understanding how historical and structural factors frame food and weight beyond individual choice.

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