Proposal for a university-community-hospice partnership to address organizational barriers to cultural competence.
Models of culturally competent hospice services have been developed, but they are not generally being used. This article describes a participatory action research project which is addressing organizational barriers to cultural competence through a university-community-hospice partnership. The intervention plan is to develop a connection with the African American community, increasing community knowledge, and hospice staff cultural competence through a social work student field placement. It is hoped that, if successful, this model will be replicated to address the problem of African American utilization and access to hospice.
Reese
Dona J
DJ
Southern Illinois University, School of Social Work, Carbondale, IL, USA. dona.reese@gmail.com
D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration; D001741:Black or African American; D001293:Attitude to Death / Q000208:ethnology; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D055818:Public-Private Sector Partnerships / Q000458:organization & administration; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology; D014481:United States