Partnerships

Community partnerships

Thanks to conversations between the Culture and Language Coaching Program and Mattie Rhodes Center in Missouri, we were able to transfer the coaching model from our clinic in CHiCoS to providers serving the community in social work service coordination and behavioral health care. We were able to do so through a grant from Reach Healthcare Foundation.

With grants from Reach, Health Forward Foundation, Cigna Foundation, and support from Children's Mercy, culture and language coaches are supporting bilinguals at Mattie Rhodes Center, PACES from the Wyandotte Behavioral Health Network, Children’s Mercy Social Work and Development & Behavior/ADHD providers at Broadway, and Promise 1000 Turner PAT (Parents as Teachers) in the community.

Academic partnerships

In 2020, Culture and Language Coaching Program leaders joined the National Association of Medical Spanish and now lead the Graduate Medical Education Working Subgroup of the MST. The GME Subgroup seeks to create and implement standardized training and testing in the graduate medical education setting (residencies and fellowships), where opportunities for practical experience increase as time for language study decreases.

Visit the Medical Spanish Taskforce to learn more.

Throughout the development of CHiCoS and the Culture and Language Coaching Program, we have consulted with other educational institutions interested in developing similar training models, including the University of Kansas School of Medicine (Kansas City, KS); Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN); Waco Family Medicine Residency (Waco, TX); Baylor Scott & White/Mclane’s Children’s Hospital (Temple, TX); and Primary Children’s Hospital (Salt Lake City, UT).

Funding partnerships

The success of the Culture and Language Coaching Program has depended on partnering with funders who share our vision for a more equitable future. They include:

• American Century Investments
• Cigna Foundation
• GEHA
• Health Forward Foundation
• REACH Healthcare Foundation