Resources
Parents, Friends
& Families of Lesbians and Gays (P-FLAG)
www.pflag.org
The
American Medical Association (AMA) created a resource entitled:
Cultural Competence Compendium
It
can be downloaded at www.ama-assn.org and
it can be purchased by the AMA.
Contents
include:
·
Physician Professional
Organizations
·
Resources Emphasizing Communication Skills
·
Curriculum and Training
Materials
·
Specific Populations: Needs and Resources
·
Complementary and
Spiritual Practices and Their Impact on Effective Care
·
Relevant Materials from
Nursing and Other Health Professions (includes OT)
·
Patient Support Materials,
Including Self-Help Group Resources
·
Representative Cultural
Competence Publications
·
Virtual Resources
·
Selected AMA Reports
The National Center for Neurogenic
Communication Disorders at the University of Arizona has a series of 5 tapes
for addressing service provision.
Titles are as follows:
 | A
Model (60 min.). $25. |
| The
Perspectives of Minority Professionals (60 min.). $25. |
| The Challenge of Providing Health Care Services to American Indians
(96 min.). $35. |
| Providing
Health Care to Latino/Hispanic Immigrant Children (45 min.). $25. |
Tapes can be ordered through the National Center at:
P.O. Box 210071
Tucson, AZ 85721-0071
Phone: (502) 621-2097
Fax: (502) 621-2226
American Library Association Book Awards
The American Library Association (ALA), The Black Caucus of the ALA and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Group of ALA all announced book awards at the Associations Mid Winter meeting in San Antonio, TX. Following are the awards lists for 2000:
ALA
Awards:
Children’s
Books:
Bud, Not Buddy by
Christopher Paul Curtis
Joseph
Had a Little Overcoat by Simms
Taback
Coretta
Scott King Award:
¨
Bud, Not Buddy by
Christopher Paul Curtis
Illustrator:
¨
Brian Pinkney for
In the Time of the Drums
Pura
Belpre Award for Latino Writers and Illustrators:
¨
Under the Royal Palms: A
Childhood in Cuba by
Alma Flor Ada
Black
Caucus Awards
Fiction:
¨
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I
Do
by Valerie Wilson
Nonfiction:
¨
Homelands and Waterways: The
American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926 by Adele
Logan Alexander
Debut
Novel:
¨
Inner City Blues by
Paula L. Woods
Outstanding
Contribution to Publishing:
¨
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the
African and African American Experience by Kwame
Anthony Appiah and Louis Gates Jr.
Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Awards (GLBT):
Fiction:
¨
My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of
a Marriage by
Barrie Jean Borich
Nonfiction:
¨
Biological Exuberance: Animal
Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce
Bagemihl
¨
Firebird: A Memoir
by Mark Doty
¨
Lorca: A Dream of Life
by Leslie Stainton
¨
Victory Deferred How AIDS Changed
Gay Life in America
by John-Manuel Andriote