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2023 Virtual Speaker Series: Free DEI Resources Available in Honor of Black History Month
February is Black History Month
Black History Month focuses attention on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. It honors all Black people from all periods of United States history.
Friday, February 10, 2023
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Structural Racism and Psychiatric Practice: A Call for Sustained Change
Rachel Talley, MD
Structural racism has received renewed focus, fueled by the convergence of major political and social events. As a result, psychiatry as a field has been forced to confront a legacy of systemic inequities.
Dr. Talley will use examples from her clinical and supervisory work to highlight the urgent need to integrate techniques addressing racial identity and racism into psychiatric practice and teaching. This urgency is underlined by extensive evidence of psychiatry’s long-standing systemic inequities. Our field suffers not from a lack of available techniques but rather a lack of sustained commitment to understand and integrate those techniques into our work; indeed, there are multiple published examples of strategies to address racism and racial identity in psychiatric clinical practice.
She will provide recommendations geared toward more firmly institutionalizing a focus on racism and racial identity in psychiatry and suggest applications of existing techniques to our initial clinical examples.
Thursday, February 23, 2023
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Making One’s Way in the World
Illya Eliphis Davis, PhD
Illya Eliphis Davis serves as the Director of Freshmen and Seniors’ Academic Success Programs and Professor of Philosophy at Morehouse College. He is a 1989 philosophy graduate of Morehouse College. He pursued a Master’s degree in Religion and Culture at Harvard University and doctoral studies at The University of Chicago in Philosophy of Religion.
He has published on the political thought of former Morehouse College president Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, African American Religious Experiences, Black existential thought, Black fraternities and sororities, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Professor Davis has provided invited lectures at the United States Department of Labor, The University of Chicago, Duke University, Mississippi State University, and the University of Notre Dame. Most recently, he provided the 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Day talk for the United States Department of Labor.
Professor Davis is a frequent social and political contributor to NPRs WABE-Atlanta. He teaches and researches Africana Philosophy and Race, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. He is the proud father of two young ladies: Ilan, a 2021 graduate of Spelman College, and Anya, a sophomore at Spelman College. He is a member of The Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated.
If you have any questions, contact Nancy Massey.
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Advancing Trauma- and Resilience-Informed Health Care Systems — Webinar on January 18
January 18, 2023, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET
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A trauma-informed approach to care acknowledges that health care organizations and care teams need a complete picture of a patient’s life situation — past and present — to provide effective services with a healing orientation. Trauma-informed practices hold the potential to improve patient engagement, treatment adherence, and health outcomes, as well as provider and staff wellness.
This webinar, cosponsored by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) and the Better Care Playbook, will highlight how Denver Health, a large health system in Colorado, is implementing a trauma- and resilience-informed approach into organization-wide policy and practice, while also focusing on addressing systemic racism and biases. Panelists — including Maria Gonsalves Schimpf, MA, MT-BC, Director, Denver Health RESTORE; Kris Gaw, MBA, FACHE, Chief Operating Officer, Denver Health; and Ken Epstein, PhD, LCSW, Consultant, P.R.E.P. for Change Consulting — will discuss their efforts, including building staff capacity, promoting organizational culture change, and gaining leadership buy in.
Denver Health is a participant in Advancing Integrated Models, a national initiative led by CHCS and made possible through support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Supporting Providers of Color in the Pediatric Workforce — Free Webinar on January 19
Supporting Providers of Color in the Pediatric Workforce: Practices to Diversify the Workforce and Improve Retention
Thursday, January 19, 2023
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET
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The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) is offering this free webinar on Supporting Providers of Color in the Pediatric Workforce. This webinar is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
When health care professionals reflect the communities they serve, it leads to greater health equity, enhanced patient care, and improved health outcomes. The current pediatric workforce, however, lacks racial and ethnic diversity. The field is also experiencing staff shortages as well as geographic maldistribution in inner city and rural communities, which are projected to worsen in the years to come. These workforce shortages have negative impacts on providers in the workforce and on our youngest patients across the nation, especially children of color.
This webinar will explore innovations in recruitment, training, and retention that can lead to a more representative and supported pediatric workforce. It will also discuss anti-racist training opportunities for pediatric staff and residents to better serve children most impacted by structural racism. The webinar includes speakers from pediatric sites engaged in Accelerating Child Health Transformation, a national initiative led by the Center for Health Care Strategies with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Health care providers, researchers, and organizations, patients and patient advocates, and other interested stakeholders are invited to join this 90-minute event.
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
- Ben Danielson, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine and Pediatrician, University of Washington Medicine
- Margaret Tomcho, MD, Medical Director, Denver Health’s Westside Family Health Center and Pre-Health Pipeline Programs; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Neeti Doshi, MD, MPH, FAAP, Primary Care Pediatrician, Children’s Health Center, San Francisco General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco
- Elizabeth Castro, MHA, Strategic Support Manager, ADOBE (Averting Disparities in Outcomes by Building Engagement) Program
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Recognizing Transgender Awareness Week, Transgender Day of Remembrance
Each year between November 13–19, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise the visibility about transgender people and address issues members of the community face.
The week before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, people and organizations around the country participate in Transgender Awareness Week to help raise the visibility of transgender people and address issues members of the community face.
Learn More:
GLAAD — Transgender Awareness Week
AAP Journal Article — Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents
NICHQ Blog — Exploring a Nonbinary Approach to Health
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