Cultural Wellness Training
Training that respects who your clients are.
We're working to empower America's health and wellness transformation by equipping health, public health and mental health providers and practitioners with training and tools to serve their communities, eliminate barriers to care, and improve health outcomes and opportunities for optimal health and wellness.
Who these trainings are for
- I Am Well Foundation Provider Partners and Practitioners
- Health and wellness providers and practitioners in Colorado, Ohio and throughout the United States
- Public health officials, policy-makers and community engagement workers
- Mental health and social service workers
- Policymakers, funders and health equity advocates and professionals
- Learners interested in eliminating disparities, reducing barriers to care, improving health outcomes, and empowering clients and patients on their own optimal health journey
How it works
Step 1: Explore the Training Library
Cultural Wellness Trainings are provided 24/7 on-demand in the Online Training Portal, or by our Cultural Wellness Training Instructors and I Am Well Foundation Ambassadors in person or live online at conferences, agencies and events.
Step 2: Get Your Certificate
Complete the evaluation at the end of each course, and receive your Certificate of Completion.
Step 3: Make Positive Changes
Start increasing access to care and improving health outcomes for your clients and communities today.
Track 1: Core Competencies
Baseline trainings that introduce providers to core Cultural Wellness techniques: Whole Person Approach; Cultural Validation; and Cultural Integration: Peer to Peer.
Key learning objectives
- Identify the importance of culture, Cultural Wellness techniques, and the Whole Person Approach in improving health outcomes
- Identify key strategies in Cultural Validation that improve access to care and reduce disparities
- Explore Cultural Integration: Peer to Peer methods that can accelerate health and wellness outcomes at the community and cultural level
Track 2: Understanding & Reaching Disparately Impacted Populations
Trainings specially designed to help providers connect with their clients, remove barriers to access, and improve health outcomes for disparately impacted populations, taught by instructors with both professional and lived experience.
Key learning objectives
- Define key terminology and background information for diverse and disparately impacted people and populations
- Identify key disparities faced by different communities using the Whole Person Approach
- Explore Cultural Validation strategies for breaking down barriers to accessibility and inclusion
- Identify ways to use Cultural Integration and Peer to Peer methods
- Identify best practices that help clients feel safe, heard, valued and respected
Track 3: Provider & Agency Tools
Trainings that address core needs at the provider, agency and systemic level to create an organizational culture of Cultural Wellness.
Key learning objectives
- Recognize opportunities for systemic change that improve accessibility, inclusion and wellness at the agency level
- Identify and use tools for eliminating barriers and improving health outcomes
What is Cultural Wellness?
Cultural Wellness is a set of frameworks and techniques that equip providers and practitioners to empower their clients and patients to reach their own unique optimal health and wellness — viewing each person as a whole, unique individual; being aware of and respecting the unique cultural backgrounds and identities of clients and patients; using outreach and messaging that clients and communities relate to; and building genuine, authentic relationships.
Community & Provider Led
Designed and developed by people with both professional and lived experience in the topics they cover.
Accessibility Matters
In-person training, live online training, and fixed-content trainings so providers, practitioners and agencies can get the format that works best for them.
Training for Change
Equips decision-makers with techniques that result in real-world change, measured through evaluation tools and our Certificate of Completion program.
Your Voice Matters, Too
We take input and feedback on our training programs to heart.
Starting in Colorado, this program was launched in 2023 through a joint partnership between I Am Well Foundation, Julissa Soto Latino Health Equity Consulting, All People Thriving, The Trailhead Institute, and additional partners — to enable providers and practitioners to empower their clients to reach their own unique optimal health and wellness by respecting and valuing what makes each person unique.