The ever increasing diversity of the US population along with noted decades of health disparities require that providers become as adept as possible in providing quality services to multicultural communities. This interactive training will review the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards as a road map of benchmarks and actionable items that help programs to assess potential obstacles in delivering culturally responsive care within agency-level (services and behavioral health systems) and systems-level (client and provider) interactions.

The content will further offer capacity building strategies using the National CLAS Standards and deliver high quality behavioral health care, essentially building equity and inclusion in services for persons of color and other marginalized communities.