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CA7AE: HAPP (Commitment to Action for 7th-Generation Awareness & Education: HIV/AIDS Prevention Project) has established a collaborative relationship with NMAETC (National Minority AIDS Education Training Center) to promote Cultural Competency in HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and training.

The manner in which health care providers recognize and respond to this diversity is critical to the development of effective culturally appropriate health care, prevention, and intervention programs. Patients face substantial barriers when seeking care and treatment, therefore it is vital that health care professionals acknowledge and utilize cultural components when addressing health issues and concerns.

As a result of these challenges which both patients and clinicians face, the NMAETC offers comprehensive cultural competency training and curricula designed to improve provider/patient communication, thereby increasing the likelihood of positive treatment outcomes.

CA7AE: HAPP will work in collaboration with NMAETC to offer the BESAFE Cultural Competency Model specific to Native populations, to help health care providers have a greater understanding and awareness of how culture may influence their attitudes, behaviors, and policies on health care.

The NMAETC conducts highly interactive BESAFE workshops to increase cultural competency among providers when diagnosing and treating patients. In addition BESAFE workshops build organizational capacity by developing cultural competency plans. The culturally competent health care provider will develop the needed skills and interpersonal capacity to better respond to a diverse patient population.