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.
Southern Illinois University, School of Social Work, Carbondale, IL, USA. dona.reese@gmail.com
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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