Language Access and Cultural Competency
The 2020-21 Budget Act includes $16.7 million ongoing funding for
regional centers to improve and promote Language Access and
Cultural Competency to better support the language needs of
individuals with developmental disabilities, their caregivers,
and their family members. The primary purpose of these
funds is to improve consumer and
family experience and to facilitate more consistent access to
information and services
for multi-lingual, monolingual, and diverse cultural groups.
Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
The Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (CEDD), established in 2006, is one of 67 federally designated university centers (UCEDDs) across the country. These centers are authorized by the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act and funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD), part of the Administration on Community Living within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
UC-CEDD Actividades y Información
Las actividades del CEDD en español se centran en las familias y los cuidadores de personas con discapacidad.
Video Resources
Información Básica Sobre IHSS
Obtenga una visión general básica de IHSS, qué hacer después de recibir la notificación, y cómo calcular las horas para IHSS.
Medi-Cal
The Basics and Other Information
In Medi-Cal Basics you will learn:
- background information on Medi-Cal
- eligibility basics
- programs for persons with disabilities
- services
- and other health coverage
Learn about delivery methods and managed care Medi-Cal.
Review the Medi-Cal FFS and Managed Care process.
Annual Public Meeting Summary Reports
Annual meeting summary reports reflect discussions held by ACRC with stakeholders summarizing suggestions, recommendations, and plans.
Summary Reports
DDS Letter 2022 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2021 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2020 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2019 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2018 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2017 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2016 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2015 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2014 POS Data Meetings
DDS Letter 2013 POS Data Meetings
Expenditure and Demographic Data
Purchase of Service (POS)
The attachments below provide information about Alta’s Purchase of Service (POS) expenditures as required under section 4519.5 of the Welfare and Institutions code.
Purchase of Service Reports
POS Data 2020-21 English
POS Data 2020-21 Spanish
POS Data 2019-20 English
POS Data 2019-20 Spanish
POS Data 2018-19 English
POS Data 2018-19 Spanish
POS Data 2017-18 English
POS Data 2017-18 Spanish
POS Data 2016-17 English
POS Data 2016-17 Spanish
POS Data 2015-16 English
POS Data 2015-16 Spanish
POS Data 2014-15
POS Data 2013-14
POS Data 2012-13
POS Data 2011-12
ACRC Workshops
Diversity Grant
ACRC provided workshops and webinars to staff, parents, and vendors of ACRC about topics that matter to them. Examples of the workshop topics provided include legal planning for an adult child, understanding Home and Community-Based Services Waiver (also known as the Medicaid Waiver), understanding the Individual Education Program (IEP) in English and Spanish, In home support services (IHSS) in English and Spanish, Culturally sensitive needs assessment and interviewing for service coordinators.
- Desarrollo infantil
- Culturally Sensitive Assessment and Interviewing
- Comprensión de los Servicios de Apoyo en el Hogar y COVID-19
- Participation in the Individual Education Plan
- Participación en el Plan de Educación Individualizado
- Child Development
- IHSS Basic Information
- How to Calculate IHSS Hours
- Proration on Protective Supervision
- All County Letter: Clarification on Protective Supervision
- Read more
Cultural Competency Trainings
Diversity Grant
ACRC provided a foundational training to service coordinators and vendors on cultural competency and proficiency. This was followed by culture-specific trainings to promote sensitivity to the multi-ethnic communities served by ACRC. The presentations on each of the trainings provided are below.
- Cross Culture Communication
- Cultural Proficiency
- Chinese and Chinese-Americans
- East Asian
- Japanese and Japanse-Americans
- Korean and Korean-Americans
- Hispanic and Latino Community
- Hmong and Hmong-Americans
- Laos and Laotian-Americans
- Philippines and Filipino-Americans
- Slavic Culture
- Southeast Asian
- Thailand and Thai-Americans
- Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans
- Read more
Enhanced Respite
Diversity Grant
This project aimed to increase access to respite services to meet specific cultural and linguistic needs of consumers and their families. ACRC partnered with UCP Family Respite and Tricounty Respite Care to collaborate on the implementation of the project. ACRC conducted focus group discussions with the Hispanic-Latinx, Hmong, Punjabi, and Slavic families. The grant also allowed for the creation of family respite guide translated in the target populations’ languages.
Interpreting System
Diversity Grant
The Electronic Interpreting system purchased through grant funds allows for multiple people within a group setting to hear an oral translation of a presentation by an interpreter. The system has 4 transmitters and 16 receivers. The system has been utilized during ACRC’s annual meeting regarding expenditures allowing the translation of the presentation to Spanish and Vietnamese participants. The system has also been used for other ACRC activities including Self-determination trainings.
Targeted Outreach
Diversity Grant
The Targeted Outreach/Information Session grant allowed ACRC to conduct extensive information sessions to Hispanic-Latinx communities as well as the Hmong communities. ACRC also attended many culture-specific events such as the Hmong New Year, the Aloha Festival, and the MLK 365 Diversity Fair. ACRC partnered with the Health Education Council, the Ventanilla de Salud, the WeEmbrace foundation and many other healthcare sponsored diversity fairs. This grant project also allowed for topic-specific outreach provided to English-speaking families and the monolingual families served
Threshold Language Translations
Diversity Grant
A grant from the Disparity Funds Program allowed ACRC to translate important resource materials into 8 different threshold languages including Arabic, Hmong, Punjabi, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Spanish. You can view the resource materials available in multiple languages by navigating to Publications and Brochures.