Empathy and Cultural Responsiveness

Improving Cultural Competence [External link]

Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs) are developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). TIPs are best practice guidelines for the treatment of substance use disorders.

The Manual: Empathy Training [External link]

This training is developed for The center for Building a Culture of Empathy and Compassion (CBCEC). The reason for developing this training is the motivation of Edwin Rutsch to build a culture of empathy and compassion.

How an Industrial Designer Discovered the Elderly [External link]

In the mid 1970s Patricia Moore, aged twenty-six, was working as an industrial designer at the top New York firm Raymond Loewy, who had been responsible for designing the Coca-Cola bottle and the Shell logo. During a planning meeting she asked a simple question: ‘Couldn’t we design the refrigerator door so that someone with arthritis would find it easy to open?’

Empathy Museum [External link]

Empathy Museum is a series of participatory art projects dedicated to helping us look at the world through other people’s eyes.

Historical Trauma and Microaggressions: A Framework for Culturally-Based Practice [External link]

This publication captures the presentation of Dr. Karina Walters on December 4, 2009 titled “Historical Trauma, Microaggressions, and Identity: A Framework for Culturally-Based Practice”, which was part of the Center for Excellence in Children’s Mental Health (CECMH) Lessons from the Field seminar series.

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July by Frederick Douglass [External link]

In a Fourth of July holiday special, we begin with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York, he gave one of his most famous speeches, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.” He was addressing the Rochester Ladies Antislavery Society. This is actor James Earl Jones reading the speech during a performance of historian Howard Zinn’s acclaimed book, Voices of a People’s History of the United States.

Multicultural Principles for Early Childhood Leaders [External link]

The 2023 edition of Multicultural Principles for Early Childhood Leaders builds on growing research about how race, ethnicity, ability, gender, and socio-economic status influence young children’s learning.
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