Recursos de competencia cultural y lingüística de BHS

This FY23-24 Cultural Competency Plan Update provides updates on FY23-24 and provides plans moving forward.

2022-2023 Cultural Competence Plan Update including objectives such as understanding the impacts of racism and discrimination on our workforce and communities, building workforce capacity to provide culturally congruent care for our communities with the greatest health inequities, and improving systemwide anti-racist practices and policies.

Given the constant increase in demand for services from Limited English Proficiency (LEP) clients and greater emphasis on this from Dept. of Health Care Services, BHS has been allowed to devote a greater amount of resources to meeting these needs.

The Cultural Competence Plan is first a report about the current landscape of how BHS is currently providing culturally and linguistically competent care and secondly, outlines what the future priorities for the City and County Behavioral Health Plan are going forward.

BHS is committed to offering culturally competent care essentially by providing client-centered care. One strategy for addressing diversity or disparity needs stemming from education, health literacy, age, gender, income, sexual orientation, religion, disability status, socioeconomic class and access to care, among others is to use the directives noted in the CLAS.

The goal of this report is to provide an overview of the cultural and linguistic competence efforts by the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDP) - Community Behavioral Health Services during FY 14-15.

The San Francisco Mental Health Plan (MHP) is required by the State Department of Mental Health to establish a Cultural Competence Plan for achieving cultural and linguist competency under specialty mental health services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries.

3.02-15 Formally designates cultural and linguistic competence as an essential characteristic and defining quality/standard that must be embedded in all aspects of the Behavioral Health Services (BHS) systems of care. Substantive Revision. Replaces 3.02-15 of May 30, 2018.