The Role of Self-Assessment in Achieving Cultural Competence

This article discusses the role of self-assessment for achieving cultural competence. Cultural competence requires that organizations and their personnel have the capacity to value diversity, conduct self-assessment, manage the dynamics of difference, acquire and institutionalize cultural knowledge, and adapt to diversity and the cultural contexts of individuals and communities served. Consistent with this framework, a focus of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is the provision of technical assistance to conduct self-assessment within health care and human service agencies. The focus includes assessment instruments and processes for both organizations and individuals. View more on self-assessments from NCCC.

Source: Authored by Tawara Goode, Director, National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) at Georgetown University.