Power Hour: Grab a Bite, Get Insight – Beyond Representation: Developing Meaningful Culturally Tailored Interventions
Date/Time
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Date: Tuesday, 4/8/25 Time: 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET Location: LIVE STREAM Cost: Early Bird Registration: $14.99 Registration (After March 25th) $19.99
Credits: 1 CE Credit |
Presenters
Presented by:
Karah Alexander, PhD, MPH, MS, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University
Dr. Karah Alexander got her PhD in nursing from Emory University and a graduate certificate in health literacy from the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State University. She is also a proud undergrad alumna of Spelman College. As an interdisciplinary health scholar, much of Karah’s work aligns with exploring literacy as a factor of health inequities in the Black community, as well as designing and testing culturally appropriate interventions for Black family caregivers of persons living with dementia. She has co-led a pilot health literacy improvement project at Emory Healthcare and served as a subject matter expert in health literacy for the Atlanta Region Community Health Workforce Advancement Program and the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation. Since 2021, she has worked on the intervention development and testing team for the Caregiving while Black Course, a novel culturally tailored psychoeducation course for Black dementia caregivers. She also served as an Instructional Design Coordinator with the Rosalyn Carter Institute for Caregivers leading a culturally tailored initiative of their ‘Dealing with Dementia’ Program. Currently, she is a clinical coordinator for “Caregiver Bootcamp”, an intervention to help new caregivers master the first 100 days of caregiving. Karah has taught undergraduate and graduate nursing and public health students the importance of culturally appropriate interventions and effective processes to do so.
Beyond Representation: Developing Meaningful Culturally Tailored Interventions
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET: Registration / Networking
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET: Presentation – See event flyer for detailed agenda
1:00 p.m. ET: Closing/Evaluation
COST:
Early Bird Registration: $14.99
Registration $19.99 (After March 25th)
Registration FREE for CEs Plus U Bundle Members
Continuing Education Credits
Social Workers
ASWB ACE – 1 Cultural Competence CE Credit
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 1 Contact Hour
Case Managers
CCMC – 1 Contact Hour
Nurses
California Board of Registered Nursing – 1 Contact Hour
Counselors
NBCC ACEP – 1 Contact Hour
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 1 Contact Hour
Attendance or applied credit certificate available for other credentials.
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credits.
Overview:
Tailors are in the business of performing complicated alterations that benefit customers beyond the use of well-fitted clothing. Often tailoring also helps build customer confidence. Culturally tailoring interventions for specific populations of interest can follow the same sentiments; it allows groups to feel seen and address unique challenges that some communities often face. The process can be misunderstood with interventionists solely incorporating media representation (i.e., pictures & videos that mirror the group of interest), which although important, is not complete – there is more to consider. What’s most important is centering the population of interest and engaging them throughout the entire development of the intervention. This can make for an intricate process, but a rewarding, and most importantly, effective intervention.
By Attending Our Workshop, You Will Be Able To:
- Define ‘culture’ and a ‘culturally tailored’ intervention.
- Describe effective processes to culturally tailor interventions.
- Compare real-life examples of culturally tailored interventions and discuss differences.