Use the Cultural Competence Organisational Review Tool (CORe)
The Cultural Competence Organisational Review (CORe) tool helps organisations improve their own cultural competence. By improving cultural competence, organisations strengthen their service delivery (access and appropriateness) to people from refugee and migrant communities.
The CORe tool empowers organisations to evaluate their own cultural competence. These findings are then used to inform any changes to services, internal procedures or policies needed to strengthen organisational cultural competence. By using the tool, organisations gain an understanding of their current policies and practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse groups. This understanding is gained through a variety of methods including: 
Download the CORe tool documents:
- CORe Introduction
- CORe Action Plan Process
- CORe Document Audit Template
- CORe Staff Survey
- CORe Acknowledgements
For any enquiries about how to use CORe, please contact us.
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