Language Access Services
This article provides empirical evidence of how Hurricane Katrina affected Bangladeshis immigrants living in New Orleans, particularly Bangladeshi exchange students at Tulane University.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 7 - Recovery, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
The Immigrant Emergency Communications Program implements services designed to introduce emergency preparedness and response information in the native language of the community.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 6 - Response, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
This presentation discusses the Janus-faced role of culture in disaster scenarios and provides strategies for developing culturally competent disaster plans.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Organizational Supports, Building Partnerships, Building Trust
Language(s): English
This report offers a framework for how local governments can incorporate LEP residents and immigrants into the emergency planning process, increase their preparedness, and develop capacity in key public agencies to communicate with and serve these residents.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 6 - Response, Building Trust, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This article describes cultural barriers which impeded the recovery of Vietnamese individuals following Hurricane Katrina and one organization’s effort to help the Vietnamese community rebuild.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 8 - Reconstruction
Language(s): English
The Kentucky Outreach and Information Network (KOIN) is a preparedness initiative which works with trusted community agencies to assure that appropriate communication channels are in place to notify heard to reach populations in the event of an emergency.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Channels of Communication, Phase 3 - Warning, Building Trust, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
In this report, the results of three case studies are presented to highlight lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina and the Alameda County Public Health Department in relation to public health emergency preparedness for vulnerable population, including non-English speakers.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This site acts as a clearinghouse, providing and linking to information, tools, and technical assistance regarding limited English proficiency (LEP) and language services for federal agencies, recipients of federal funds, users of federal programs and federally assisted programs, and other stakeholders.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Message Content
Language(s): English
Listo OC is a Spanish language website dedicated to promoting emergency preparedness in Orange County, California.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Spanish
This center is committed to public health training with a specific focus on Hispanic/Latino populations within the United States and throughout Latin America.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 5 - Psychological Impact, Phase 7 - Recovery, Building Partnerships, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Spanish
This presentation provides an overview of a Citizen Corps chapter’s efforts to engage the local Arab-American community in emergency preparedness activities in Dearborn, Michigan.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Building Partnerships, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
The 14 culturally and linguistically appropriate service (CLAS) standards listed here vary in stringency and are intended to be utilized by health care professionals to make practices more culturally and linguistically accessible.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services
Language(s): English
This article discusses health-related, social, and economic factors that contribute the increased risk of immigrants and refugees in an influenza pandemic and strategies.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 6 - Response, Outbreaks, Building Trust, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This article summarizes the advice from an expert panel of public health scientists and service program managers on strategies to meet the needs immigrants and refuges in an influenza pandemic.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Phase 7 - Recovery, Outbreaks, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This report identifies gaps in resources which are needed to serve the preparedness needs of vulnerable populations including ethnic and racial minorities and Spanish-speaking populations.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Building Partnerships, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This resource grid provides a list of 323 educational resources organized by the specific vulnerable populations which they were developed to serve. Resources pertaining to the needs of ethnic/racial minority groups and Spanish-speaking populations are included.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This radio feature describes the findings of a report which assessed efforts to integrate racial and ethnically diverse communities into emergency preparedness plans in California.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Organizational Supports, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
This resource, provided by ECHO, is a video about preventing seasonal influenza. It provides information about symptoms of flu, preventing spread, and vaccination.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Outbreaks
Language(s): English, Khmer/Cambodian, Somali, Vietnamese, Laotian, Spanish, Hmong
This report provides a summary of a symposium which addressed the role of culture in emergency preparedness and more specifically identifies the core principles of cultural competence which need to be incorporated into disaster preparedness plans.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Organizational Supports, Phase 6 - Response, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This brief article highlights the efforts of Emergency and Community Health Outreach Minnesota (ECHO) to effectively reach populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) in a public health emergency.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Channels of Communication, Phase 3 - Warning
Language(s): English
This toolkit, developed by El Paso City-County Health and Environment District, provides a variety of materials to train lay heath promoters to educate Hispanic/Latino communities about what they can do to prepare for an influenza pandemic.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Outbreaks, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This study assessed the language capabilities, confidence and training needs of Texas rural physicians in responding to public health emergencies.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Organizational Supports, Building Knowledge
Language(s): English
This work of synthesis shows how various racial and ethnic groups perceive natural hazard risks and respond to warnings.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Organizational Supports, Phase 5 - Psychological Impact, Phase 6 - Response, Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 3 - Warning, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Phase 8 - Reconstruction
Language(s): English
This brochure, available in 6 languages, provides information on heat-related illnesses and emergencies.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Haitian Creole
This newspaper article discusses the accusations that the American Red Cross was culturally insensitive to many minority victims following Hurricane Katrina.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Organizational Supports, Building Partnerships, Building Trust
Language(s): English
Refugee Health Information Network is a national collaborative partnership managed by refugee health professionals, whose objective is to provide quality multilingual, health information resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees. Materials related to refugee health are available in multiple languages and most are available free of charge.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services
Language(s): English, Khmer/Cambodian, Somali, Vietnamese, Laotian, Spanish, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese Simplified, Hindi, Marshallese, Brazilian, Russian, Ukrainian, Farsi, Armenian, Thai, Croatian, Serbian, Kurdish, Haitian Creole, Albanian, Amharic, Bengali, German, Italian, Turkish, Urdu, Polish, Kirundi, Burmese, Oromo, Swahili, Samoan, Wolof, Afrikaans, Macedonian , Romanian , Georgian
This online course provides both general and specific risk communication strategies to successfully reach special populations in an emergency.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Channels of Communication, Message Content, Phase 3 - Warning
Language(s): English
Section 616 on page 63 of this document provides specific federal guidance on incorporating populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) in emergency planning and response.
Subtopics: Language Access Services
Language(s): English
This report documents how migrant farm workers were impacted during the 2007 wildfires in North San Diego County and provides recommendations to improve future response and recovery efforts.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 6 - Response, Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 3 - Warning, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
The San Leandro Triad alliance provides a unique partnership approach between government, private sector and community based organizations to reach the preparedness needs of vulnerable populations.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Phase 7 - Recovery, Building Partnerships, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English