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CRR is under the administration of a national Cultural Competence Leadership Fellow and is one of the nations foremost providers of culturally competent care services. Our philosophy is based on the belief that there are ethnically/culturally-determined differences in the perception of how problems are identified, experienced and solved. CRR^s cultural competence philosophy is based on the premise that cultural competent services result in improve health outcomes for clients, through the provision of equitable services.
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Cultural and linguistic competency is incorporated at the policy, organizational and clinical level which involves an awareness and acceptance of cultural differences, the expansion of cultural knowledge and adaptation of services to meet the individual^s unique cultural needs. CRR values the people who work there, understands the community in which it operates, and embraces its clients/consumers/patient population as valuable members of the community. It a set of congruent practice skills, attitudes, polices and structures, which come together in a system, agency, or among professional to work effectively in the context of cultural differences.
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