Cultural Competence

Evaluate a human services agency (this can be an agency you work for) and respond to the following questions. The response should be 500 words or longer. APA 7 style required for formatting and any references used.

1. Appraise where the agency falls on the Continuum of Cultural Competence (cultural destructiveness, cultural incapacity, cultural blindness, cultural pre-competence, basic cultural competence, cultural proficiency)?

2. Describe the agency’s practices and attitudes that place it at its current place on the continuum.

3. What changes do you recommend the agency make in order to become more culturally competent?

All questions must be answered.

The paper should be written as an agency that works with undocumented immigrants. Some of the topics can be on language barriers, unwilling to share information due to legal status, lack of resources for undocumented immigrants in Miami-Dade County Human Services Department.