Mission

In partnership with federal, state, and local organizations, our aim is to facilitate the provision of high quality, culturally-responsive health care through:

(1) education and training; (2) curricular innovations for health care professionals; (3) technical assistance and consultation; (4) research/evaluation that examines access, utilization, effectiveness, and outcomes of culturally and linguistically competent health services delivery; and (5) dissemination of diversity information.

Vision

The Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity (CHFCD) is dedicated to leadership, advocacy, and excellence in promoting culturally-responsive, quality health care for diverse populations. The Center exists to advance and implement ongoing efforts to foster justice and equity in health care.

Values

We support patient-oriented, family-centered, community-based health care.

We strive to continually improve health care service delivery and inform public policy by recognizing the assets and strengths of diverse populations, and understanding how to meet their needs and wants.

We encourage ideas, continual learning, education, and training that transform patient/provider encounters and organizational systems, and lead to the provision of culturally and linguistically responsive health care.

We endeavor to foster and conduct research and evaluation that results in positive change in the health status of underserved populations.

We value relationships and partnerships that are collaborative and mutually supportive.

We encourage innovation and creativity in the generation of sharing of ideas that are meaningful and relevant.

We believe that empathy, compassion, humility, authenticity, respect, and integrity are fundamental values that guide the Center's work.

We will act with courage and conviction in living our mission by being honest with each other and ourselves.