Cultural Humility takes cultural competency a step further: Learning about culture is a lifelong journey with no finish line. To be culturally humble means: 1) continuously educating oneself, 2) regularly checking one’s own biases and prejudices (inherited from one’s family, or taught by society), 3) acknowledging that some groups may experience more discrimination and imbalances in outcomes, and 4) and seeking to redress those imbalances.

It’s essential that providers are culturally humble, to ensure equitable access to and availability of important health and prevention services. Parents/guardians, educators, and prevention providers can all work together to improve substance misuse prevention efforts and client care, while working to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities, and making sure that ALL races feel safe, welcome, and included.