A main principle of Cultural Competency is making services accessible to all. This includes adapting language to increase understanding. This could mean translation into different languages used – or simplifying the language used.
Keeping calm – and keeping it simple
On July 29, the JICC’s Cultural Competency Desk held a Language Simplification workshop online for cultural competency coordinators from healthcare and welfare institutions.
Dr. MIchal Schuster, on simplifying language
Dr. Michal Schuster led the fascinating meeting, which practiced with the participants important basics of simplifying language during meetings between therapists and patients from different identity groups.
Here’s a Facebook post from Cultural Competency desk’s Dr. Rachely Ashwal:
Many thanks to the Jerusalem Foundation for its ongoing support of cultural competency in Jerusalem.
