This isn’t the first time we’ve worked with the Jerusalem Mental Health Center at Kfar Shaul, and with practitioners in mental health. You can read more about our previous work here and here.
On February 24, 2020 we began a series of four workshops, together with the Jerusalem Mental Health Center at Kfar Shaul, led by our Orna Shani-Golan and Michal Schuster.
Orna Shani-Golan at the first meeting of the Diversity Management Workshop in Mental Health – for Kfar Shaul
In these four sessions, we’ll share knowledge, tools, skills, and we’ll hold deep discussions about the implications of diversity and how to include all the identities represented in the organization in its activities.
In the first session, we introduced the principles of cultural competency to the different types of caregivers, administrators, and human resources department, and discussed how they can be used to guide effective responses for the patients, taking into consideration the cultural backgrounds of both patients and staff, which come from a variety of backgrounds. Participants were asked to choose one thing that they’d like to change in order to advance cultural competency at Kfar Shaul, and we’ll help them see it through.
Here’s Rachely’s Hebrew post from the first workshop in late February:
Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation for its continued support of Cultural Competency since its inception in 2008.
