Cultural Humility Interventions

Improving Structural Competency Within Health Care Settings

Family planning providers can play a key role in bringing out institutional change by implementing policies and procedures that improve structural competency. This includes addressing unconscious and conscious racial bias and discrimination, on-going education requirements for medical professionals, recruitment and retention strategies for inclusive staffing at all levels, DEI trainings and antiracist practices, and provider training in interpersonal skills and cultural competency.

• NFPRHA Racial and Reproductive Justice Resources — access trainings and additional resources.
• Community Engagement: A Health Promotion Guide for Universal Health Coverage — WHO guide including types of community engagement approaches and a checklist to improve engagement strategies.
• True Choice in Reproductive Care: Using Cultural Humility and Explanatory Models to Support Reproductive Justice — examines cultural humility models and how to implement health care strategies that best support the patient.
• Health Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan (HEAR) — Seattle Children's Hospital's 5-year action plan to address racism and health disparities.
• "Is Implicit Bias Training Effective?" — NIH report discussing how implicit bias training must be paired with a comprehensive institutional strategy for change.

Workforce Retention, Recruitment, and Environment

All institutions should focus on a recruitment and retention plan for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ staff, provide inclusive hiring practices for all levels of staff and providers, and provide hiring incentives for multilingual staff and providers.

• Anti-Racist Hiring & Supervision Practices
• Recommendations for Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Workforce: A Report from the Field
• Confronting Racism in Health Care — discusses how organizations must examine institutional policies, train all staff in anti-racism, and develop relationships with minority businesses.
• Driving Health Equity in the Workplace — American Health Association tool to ensure the workplace is safe and supportive for all employees.
• Transgender-Inclusive Benefits for Employees and Dependents — Human Rights Campaign guide to support TGNC employees and their dependents.

Inclusive Health Care Settings

• Providing Transgender-Inclusive Healthcare Services — Planned Parenthood guide to improve health care services for transgender patients.
• Creating an Inclusive Environment for LGBT Patients — National LGBT Health Education Center guide to improve institutional policies for LGBTQ+ patients.