**This training is full: Integrating Cultural Proficiency into Prevention.**

Cultural proficiency is critical to promoting behavioral health equity. To effectively address substance abuse and mental health concerns in communities, attention to cultural factors and strategies to enhance cultural responsiveness of prevention programming must be considered. This training will help participants incorporate cultural considerations in the context of the Strategic Prevention Framework.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Describe cultural proficiency and its application to prevention
2. Apply key cultural competency concepts to prevention planning
3. Outline cultural considerations in prevention programming and coalition capacity building
4.  Identify strategies to enhance cultural responsiveness of prevention programming and coalition capacity building

Presenter: 

Dr. Marilyn Laila Sampilo is a clinical psychologist who specializes in integrated behavioral health and health disparities among minority populations. She is currently a psychologist in the Center for Pediatric Behavioral Health at Cleveland Clinic where she works in integrated behavioral health within primary care. She currently serves as the health equity and social justice lead for the Center and is chair of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Pediatrics Institute at Cleveland Clinic. She also works with various local, state, regional, and national entities on training and professional development in the areas of health equity, diversity, and cultural proficiency.