Topics: Cultural Competence

A diverse group of young people standing at a fence.You can't provide effective care and services to families and youth if you don't know where they're coming from. Cultural competence means recognizing and respecting the unique perspectives of people with different characteristics, backgrounds and views. By making its staff, facilities and literature welcoming to all youth, your organization can better serve the whole of your community. Our cultural competence resources, including our interactive training course, can show you how.

The Beat
April 11, 2012
School should be a safe space for all students to learn. But too often lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth are taunted and bullied in class, the hallways and the schoolyard.
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Podcasts & Multimedia
March 26, 2012

Norman Hicks has devoted his life to helping the homeless, in part because he used to be homeless himself. He talks to NCFY about the two adults that changed his life when he was a teenager.

Length: 3:47 | Size: 3.5 MB | Transcript

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