Led by instructors from the UNC Family Medicine Residency Program’s Federally Qualified Health Center Track and El Futuro, an inter-disciplinary nonprofit mental health organization, this session will provide real-world insights into building sustainable clinical training programs. Attendees will gain practical strategies to enhance their capacity to train future providers and expand their ability to meet the behavioral health needs of underserved communities.

Recent directions in health care point to the importance of employing culturally responsive, integrated approaches to increase access to high quality, high impact health care for all community members. Despite this growing awareness, current healthcare training curricula are limited in their capacity to adequately prepare professionals to work in interdisciplinary teams to more effectively serve rural and underserved communities.

Developing training curricula that are responsive to specific learning needs of providers in a particular setting, and which also embed cultural responsiveness within the learning methods, may feel daunting for clinical trainers, especially if they lack the expertise needed to create such culturally appropriate curricula. In this workshop the presenters, Rachel Galanter of El Futuro, a community-based mental health organization which has specific expertise in culturally appropriate Latine behavioral health, and Caroline Roberts and Molly Duffy, two family medicine physicians who work within UNC School of Medicine and provide clinical care at Piedmont Health Services, a group of Federally Qualified Health Centers in NC, will share a model of successful interdisciplinary collaborative curriculum development grounded in cultural responsiveness and cultural humility. This interactive workshop supports participants in using this model for developing their own training curriculum for integrated health care provision.