Ethnicity & Disability Factbook

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The Factbook is a resource book and starting point for human services wanting to know more about the culture and religion of their consumers and wanting to provide a better, more culturally competent service.

The Factbook aims to inspire you to learn more, and to become better aware of diversity. This Factbook will give you some answers, but it will mostly leave you with many questions, questions such as, "How does my own culture influence the way I think about disability and the way I work with people with disability?"

There are people from 276 countries speaking some 241 different languages living in NSW (ABS Census, 1996). No one person can know all about these cultures and languages. The solution to better service provision in a culturally diverse community does not lie with trying to become an expert in all cultures, but with identifying concrete strategies and actions that reduce the barriers for people from NESB with disability and enhance the quality of service provision.

Learning more and enhancing ones' understanding of cultures and religions is one such strategy.

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