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A cultural broker is a person who serves as an intermediary between individuals, hospitals (for example) or different cultural groups with the aim of helping people effectively navigate the health, education or human service system. Cultural brokering has been increasingly used in healthcare and education to provide appropriate and effective services to culturally & linguistically diverse families. In 2005, the Center for Family Involvement @ VCU established our MCHB funded Family to Family (F2F) Health Information Center to support families of children who have a disability or special healthcare need. In 2009, after receiving an increase in federal and state funding, the program director allocated funds to focus their services on culturally & linguistically diverse communities and develop a cultural brokering initiative in response to the difficulties and barriers these families were experiencing in accessing and understanding disability benefits, services and supports. Since 2009, our F2F program has hired 8 parents of children and youth with disabilities to act as cultural brokers and served over 600 linguistically diverse families with intensive support. Annually, approximately 46% of the F2F callers served by all CFI staff identify as culturally & linguistically diverse.  \nThe cultural brokers represent African American, Arabic, Asian, Latino/a/x, and refugee/immigrant communities. These cultural brokers work 12–20 hours per week 1) providing enhanced one-to-one emotional, informational, and systems navigational support to culturally & linguistically diverse families of children with disabilities and special health care needs, and 2) partnering with agencies in the community to improve equitable access to services and supports.  \nCORE COMPONENTS & PRACTICE ACTIVITES  \nThe goal of the cultural broker initiative is to help culturally & linguistically diverse families understand and effectively navigate the education, health, and disability systems, and successfully get resources and services that meet the needs of their children with disabilities and special healthcare needs. We do this through cultural brokers serving as a bridge between these service systems and culturally and linguistically diverse families.  \nThe core components of this program include: training to prepare cultural brokers for the intervention of emotional, informational and systems navigational support; having cultural brokers map resources to understand their communities; providing culturally appropriate outreach and networking methods with families, professionals, and service and community agencies; recruiting families to serve as “family navigators” to meet the diverse needs of other families; and assessing the effectiveness of the cultural brokering intervention.  \nCore Components & Practice Activities  \nCore Component Activities Operational Details  \nTraining Training and support for  \ncultural brokering  \nCultural brokers receive several levels of training u","cbCaibCiofUDjUQe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibCiofUDjUQe","pdf",417713,"English","# Practice Summary\n## Practice Description\n## Core Components & Practice Activities\n## Core Component Activities\n### Training\n### Mapping\n### Understanding Community Support\n### Outreaching\n### Networking and Bridging\n### Recruiting and Training Family Navigators","[{\"question\":\"What is cultural brokering in this guidance?\",\"answer\":\"Cultural brokering is the act of bridging, linking, or mediating between groups with different cultural systems to reduce conflict or create change. 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