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Cultural Diversity
Contains resources for supporting people in identifying, honoring, and respecting the cultural preferences of the people they serve, their families, and staff.
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Managed by: Carol Ely of Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota
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Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online) (29 Products)
Electronic Media (28 Products)
Organizations, Programs, and Projects (12 Products)
Online Forums (2 Products)
Other (2 Products)
People Who Can Help (2 Products)
Books, Publications & Reports (printed and/or online)
 | Assuring Health Equity for Minority Persons with Disabilities: A Statement of Principles and Recommendations
This report is about the health disabilities felt by people of color with disabilities. | | Community Lost and Found
The authors of this book have decades of experience on the streets and with people who have been excluded. They have created sucessful programs for people who most say cannot succeed. | | Conflicting Beliefs (Case Study)
This case study addresses ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care for people with disabilities. It is available online and can be used to train health care providers. | | Cross Cultural Perspectives on Quality of Life
A global perspective on quality of life issues for people with developmental disabilities, including discussions from 21 authors from around the world. | | Culture and Disability: Providing Culturally Competent Services
This book is about how culture can effect how people view disability. | | Developing Cross-Cultural Competence A Guide for Working with Children and Their Families, Fourth Edition
This book is about working with families who have diverse cultural backgrounds. | | Disability and Religious Diversity: Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Perspectives
This book is about culture, disability, and religion. | | Disability: A Diversity Model Approach in Human Service Practice, 2nd Edition
This book has information about disability history, disability groupings, and a model for practice. It is written at a challenging reading level. | | Disabling Diversity: the social construction of Disability in 1990s Australian National Cinema
1990s Australian films often used disability to consider diversity in another area. This book examines popular australian films of this period to consider disability as a problem with society rather than a damaged body. | | Health and Health Care Disparities Among People with Disabilities
This issue brief discusses the racially-based differences in access to health care among people with disabilities. | | Meeting the Needs of Diverse Family Caregivers
This report is about the issues faced by African American and Hispanic family caregivers and how they can be supported. | | MultiCultural Aspects of Disabilities: A Guide to Understanding and Assisting Minorities in the Rehabilitation Process
A book about how the rehabilitation process feels for people from many different cultures. It is written for professionals. | | Multiculturalism and Disability: A Collection of Resources and Issues
An information package on multculturalism and disability | | Native American Developmental Disabilities Needs Assessment
A report on the availability of services and supports for American Indians and Alaska Natives with developmental disabilities and their families. | | Parenting with a Disability: Diversity, Barriers & Requirements: An Exploratory Research Report
A report based on the stories of eight people with disabilities who are parents. | | Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Facing Dying and Loss
This chapter is included in a book about how culture affects end-of-life care. | | Priorities for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Implementing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities: The Road Ahead
This booklet talks about how the United Nations CRPD can help people with intellectual disabilities and their families to have better lives. You can download it for free as a PDF file.
| | Race, Culture and Disability: Rehabilitation Science and Practice
A book about matching services with peoples' cultural backgrounds. | | Reaching Out to People with Learning Disabilities and Their Families from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities; Guidance for Families of People with Learning Disabilities and Practitioners in Developing Culturally Competent Planning
This booklet is about including culture into person centered planning. | | Speaking Up for Myself (From the "Books Beyond Words" series)
This book uses a story with drawings to explain what it is like to have a disability, AND be from a minority culture. It also tells about what helps, is easy to understand and can be read together with a helper. | | The Peer Empowerment Program (PEP) A complete Toolkit for Planning and Implementing Mentoring Programs Within Community-Based Human Servicce Organizations
A curriculum designed to create a mentoring program in community-based human service organizations. | | The Power of Diversity: Supporting the Immigrant Workforce.
A curriculum to assist supervisors and other agency staff find, support, and retain immigrant workers which includes a Facilitator Guide and a Learner Guide.
| | Transition Planning for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Youth
This book is about assisting students of different cultures as they transition from school to adult life. | | Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights
This is an introductory textbook about disability. It discusses many aspects of how people with disabilities get along in the world, including their social role. | | Understanding Diversity: An Introduction to Class, Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Disability, 2nd Edition
This book helps people think about diversity. It is written as a college textbook. | | Understanding Families Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk
This book talks about the things that makes each family unique. It also covers how those differences matter when one family member has a disability. | | What’s A Leg Got To Do With It?: Black, Female and Disabled in America
This scholarly paper is about being a Black female with a disability. | | Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a place in the world
This book explains issues for women with intellectual disabilities. | | Your Values, My Values
This book describes various ways to support people from different cultures. There are stories about seven people from different cultures, nationalities, and races. Exercises help to learn how to support others with different beliefs and values. |
Electronic Media (Videos, CDs, T.V., Radio, Websites, etc.)
| A Place for All: Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities
This film is about making faith communities accessible to persons with disabilities. | | Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders is a film that tells the stories of three people who have disabilities. Each has a different type of disability, comes from a different culture, and is at a different stage in life. All now live in Belgium. | | Children of the Stars
This is a film about children with autism who live in China. | | Cross-Cultural Competence Families of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
This slideshow talks about how the people of seven different cultures look at disability. | | Cultural & Linguistic Competence: Implications for Services & Supports for Individuals with DD
This CD is about delivery of culturally sensitive services to people who have both intellectual disabilities and mental health diagnoses. | | Cultural and Linguistic Competence Assessment for Disability Organizations
A tool to help organizations learn how well they consider cultural and language differences. It was developed for organizations that support people with disabilities. | | Difference is Normal
This is a music video about people with disabilities. Its purpose is to introduce awareness of disability into the Arab world in a creative way. | | Disability Diversity and Society
This short article shows that being a person with a disability AND a cultural minority group member often means unemployment. | | Disabled Dating- Dating4Disabled.com
Online community offers blogs, forums, dating and more. Aimed at facilitating social and romantic development in a supportive and understanding environment. Fun way to make new friends, and find a partner for life. Membership is free and non-committal. | | Far from the Sun
A film about a family from Argentina who inmigrates to the United States in hopes for a better life. The story is told from the point of view of a son who has Down syndrome. | | Health and Health Care Disparities Among People with Disabilities
This issue brief discusses the racially-based differences in access to health care among people with disabilities. | | Love Limits
This documentary film is an exploration of two people's individual stories and their life together. Though very different in age and background, they share the same disability. | | Meeting the Needs of Diverse Family Caregivers
This report is about the issues faced by African American and Hispanic family caregivers and how they can be supported. | | Microtraining DVDs (for therapists)
These DVDs teach therapists the best ways to help people who have disabilities. Topics include cultural diversity, sexuality, and disability etiquette. | | Native American Developmental Disabilities Needs Assessment
A report on the availability of services and supports for American Indians and Alaska Natives with developmental disabilities and their families. | | Not Forgotten
A documentary film that tells true stories of shame and rejection of children with autism in the Ukraine. | | PLAN Institute
PLAN Institute provides training, consultation, research and publications on the values, concepts and actions of caring citizens, particularly as they relate to persons with disabilities.
| | Populations: Minorities With Disabilities
This is a section of a website that talks about the health of people of color with disabilities. | | Raising Renee
This film is about Renee, who has an intellectual disability. | | Responding to Diversity (and Respecting Differences) DVD
This DVD is about how to be with others who have different cultural backgrounds. It is a companion to other DVDs about disability. | | Shattered Lives: A Study of Autism
A film about autism in France. It uses case studies of infants, children, teens and adults all across the spectrum of autism. | | Simon Illa - The Super Producer
This is an online article about Simon Illa. Mr. Illa is a hip-hop music producer who has a disability. | | The Family Life & Disability Series: Answers for people with disabilities & their families
This website has ideas, and information about help available to people with disabilities at each stage in life. It is written to help Native American families. | | The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's webpage on the inclusion of people with disabilities
This website offers resources on being inclusive of those with disabilities in the Jewish religion. | | TrainingDiversity.com
This website explains ideas about making workplaces welcoming to everyone. It is maintained by an orgainzation who sells products to help organizations.
| | Who is Disabled?
A short film about the stigma that comes with having a child who has an intellectual disability. It was made with parents from Ghana, Africa. | | Wretches & Jabberers
A film about two men who have autism and have limited speech. They travel around the world talking with people about their views of autism. | | Yoshi's Dream
A short film about Yoshi, a 14 year-old young man who has Aspergers syndrome....and he also has a dream. Yoshi lives in Japan. |
Organizations, Programs, and Projects
| Disabled Dating- Dating4Disabled.com
Online community offers blogs, forums, dating and more. Aimed at facilitating social and romantic development in a supportive and understanding environment. Fun way to make new friends, and find a partner for life. Membership is free and non-committal. | | Grassroots
A national, multicultural consortium of Community Parent Resource Centers. | | Microtraining DVDs (for therapists)
These DVDs teach therapists the best ways to help people who have disabilities. Topics include cultural diversity, sexuality, and disability etiquette. | | Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities (OMHD) -- Disability
The purpose of this portion of the web site is to promote the health of people with disabilities. | | PLAN Institute
PLAN Institute provides training, consultation, research and publications on the values, concepts and actions of caring citizens, particularly as they relate to persons with disabilities.
| | Project Ability
A visual arts group in Scotland. It supports children and adults with disabilities to discover and develop their creativity. | | Project Empowerment: Improving Minority Disability Research Capacity
This Center is directed toward including the voices of people of color in disability research. | | Proyecto Visión
A bilingual project to connect Latinos with disabilities to employment opportunities. | | TASH’s Diversity and Cultural Competency in Disability Advocacy Initiative
In 2010, TASH began an initiative to become more inclusive of people from minority cultural groups. The ultimate goal is to make disability advocacy community more culturally diverse. | | The Power of Diversity: Supporting the Immigrant Workforce.
A curriculum to assist supervisors and other agency staff find, support, and retain immigrant workers which includes a Facilitator Guide and a Learner Guide.
| | This is What Disability Looks Like
This FaceBook page shows many images of people with disabilities living life. It counters the idea that disability is either a tragedy or an inspiration. | | Urban Youth Collaborative Program
A summer training program for youth from inner cities that encourages them to pursue a career in human services
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Online Forums
| Disabled Dating- Dating4Disabled.com
Online community offers blogs, forums, dating and more. Aimed at facilitating social and romantic development in a supportive and understanding environment. Fun way to make new friends, and find a partner for life. Membership is free and non-committal. | | Simon Illa - The Super Producer
This is an online article about Simon Illa. Mr. Illa is a hip-hop music producer who has a disability. |
Other
People Who Can Help
| Bob Jones
I am an instructor in the two-year Disability and Community Support program at Red River College College. I have been involved over the last two years with a group of people conducting "retreats" under the general title; "Developing and Sustaining Lead... | | Shri Rao
Dr. Rao is currently a faculty member at the Department of Special Education, Language and Literacy at The College of New Jersey. Her areas of interest are inclusive education, positive behavioral supports and working with culturally diverse families.... |
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