Guiding Principles Guiding Principles 1. Cultural competence includes the attainment of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to enable administrators and practitioners within systems of care to provide effective care for diverse populations, i.e., to work within the person's values and reality conditions. Whenever possible and appropriate, the services adapt self-help concepts from the specific APIA culture, taking into account the significant role that mothers and fathers play in the life of the APIA consumer. Care A community based system of care includes a full continuum of care. The costs of a managed health care delivery system are best maintained through the delivery of effective, quality services, not by cutting or limiting services.
Effective systems provide individualized services.
They emphasize outcome-driven systems and positive results. Quality care is creating the best possible outcomes with the resources available. Principle of Natural Support Natural community support and culturally competent practices are viewed as an integral part of a system of care which contributes to desired outcomes in a managed care environment. Spiritual and religious leaders, traditional healing practices, and the school system should be incorporated into service delivery to APIAs when relevant or possible. Extended family is defined by function, and APIAs generally conceive of family much more broadly than mainstream individuals.