[Resource] Culturally Connected

Culturally Connected is an approach that brings together cultural humility and health literacy to help care providers and their clients develop shared understanding of each other's values, beliefs, needs, and priorities.

Cultural humility is a perspective that involves practicing lifelong learning, exercising self-reflection and critique, recognizing the dynamics of power and priviledge, and being comfortable with not knowing. Health literacy is a person's ability to access, understand, use, and evaluate health information and services to make decisions about their health and well-being. When health literacy and cultural humility are mutually supported, there is greater potential for care providers to develop shared understanding, to communicate clearly, and to cultivate respectful partnerships with clients.

While developed to support care providers working in the health sector, the Culturally Connected approach and its fundamental practices and tools are also valuable to those working in other sectors, including education and settlement.

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