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Participants will examine practical approaches for incorporating cultural humility into substance use disorder (SUD) care across diverse clinical and community settings. By strengthening shared understanding of how cultural identity, bias, and barriers to care influence patient engagement, this activity will support more effective and person-centered communication and collaboration among interprofessional team members serving individuals with SUD.
Presentation agenda:
- Fidelity Guidelines/Guiding Principles
- Disparity plans, high-risk populations
- Definitions
- Start Disclaimer: 101 training not an expert-level course to explore personal/individual biases
- Bias and harm of discrimination, stereotypes
- What is culture- A person is multifaceted
- DHS’s mission statement
- Cultural humility vs cultural competence
- Lifetime learning, but may never truly know their experiences
- Benefits
- Contact-based interventions
- Reactions/trust building to cultural humility-based care
- Health literacy
- Challenges
- Burnout/unintentional issues
- Implementation
- Traveling to local community centers to meet with individuals who are uncomfortable with coming to medical centers
- Resources for language/ADA
- Applying these skills to avoid just checking off boxes, looking at the person in front of you
- Researching who’s in your community (disparity plan)
- Advertising for positions, outreach for clients (learning about them throughout the process)
- Small steps
- Organizational vs personal
Target Audience
- Nurse
- Physician
- Social Worker
Learning Objectives
- Understand how cultural identity affects SUD treatment and recovery.
- Recognize cultural barriers to care and their implications for COE client engagement.
- Practice culturally humble engagement techniques that improve retention in diverse populations.
Additional Information
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 8.12.2026 COE Cultural Humility in SUD Agenda.docx | 18.91 KB |
Participants will examine practical approaches for incorporating cultural humility into substance use disorder (SUD) care across diverse clinical and community settings. By strengthening shared understanding of how cultural identity, bias, and barriers to care influence patient engagement, this activity will support more effective and person-centered communication and collaboration among interprofessional team members serving individuals with SUD.
Presentation agenda:
- Fidelity Guidelines/Guiding Principles
- Disparity plans, high-risk populations
- Definitions
- Start Disclaimer: 101 training not an expert-level course to explore personal/individual biases
- Bias and harm of discrimination, stereotypes
- What is culture- A person is multifaceted
- DHS’s mission statement
- Cultural humility vs cultural competence
- Lifetime learning, but may never truly know their experiences
- Benefits
- Contact-based interventions
- Reactions/trust building to cultural humility-based care
- Health literacy
- Challenges
- Burnout/unintentional issues
- Implementation
- Traveling to local community centers to meet with individuals who are uncomfortable with coming to medical centers
- Resources for language/ADA
- Applying these skills to avoid just checking off boxes, looking at the person in front of you
- Researching who’s in your community (disparity plan)
- Advertising for positions, outreach for clients (learning about them throughout the process)
- Small steps
- Organizational vs personal
Georgie Scott
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.
Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 1.25 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 1.25 ASWB
- 1.25 Attendance