In Language Resource Evaluation Toolkit
Year Developed: 2015
Resource Type: Toolkit.Primary Audience: Enabling Staff
Language(s): English
Developed by:
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
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Resource Summary: This toolkit is designed to help health centers assess and design health education materials and communications that will be respectful and responsive to a patient's health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs. This toolkit includes an evaluation process individuals can use when assessing the appropriateness of non-English health education materials for limited-English populations, criteria to consider when selecting reviewers, and a score card to help reviewers evaluate and rate materials.
Resource Details: The following evaluation protocol is meant to help guide a community-based approach to validating the cultural and linguistic appropriateness of a health education resource.
Resource Topic: Special and Vulnerable Populations, Promising/Best Practices
Resource Subtopic: Policy and Advocacy.
Keywords: Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) , Limited English Proficiency (LEP).This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.