National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care: Compendium of State-Sponsored

National CLAS Standards Implementation Activities

Citation: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health. (2016). National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care: Compendium of State-Sponsored National CLAS Standards Implementation Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Resource type: Evidence-based reports/guides

Link to resource: https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/pdfs/CLASCompendium.pdf

From resource: In 2000, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health first published the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care (National CLAS Standards). In the fall of 2010, the Office of Minority Health launched the National CLAS Standards Enhancement Initiative to update the National CLAS Standards to reflect the past decade’s advancements, expand their scope, and improve their clarity to ensure understanding and implementation. This Compendium of State-Sponsored National CLAS Standards Implementation Activities presents a compilation of National CLAS Standards implementation efforts that have been undertaken by state agencies and described in publicly available sources on the Web since the initial release of the National CLAS Standards in 2000. Part 1 of the Compendium provides a brief introduction to the National CLAS Standards, discusses the methods used to identify National CLAS Standards implementation activities, summarizes the findings, and offers recommendations for enhancing state/territory-sponsored implementation of the National CLAS Standards. Part 2 of the Compendium presents the detailed findings for each state, serving as a resource on existing models of implementation.