Racism and Health Inequities: Eliminating Barriers and Healing Our Communities |
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Guest Speakers |
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Spero Manson, PhD, (Pembina Chippewa), Distinguished Professor, directs the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health in the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver. His programs include 8 national centers, entailing research, program development, and training among 102 Native communities, spanning rural, reservation, urban, and village settings. |
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Ben Danielson, MD, Medical Director, Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, Seattle. Dr. Benjamin Danielson joined Seattle Children's Hospital in 1995. He has been the medical director of Odessa Brown Children's Clinic in Seattle since 1999, and he holds the Janet and Jim Sinegal Endowed Chair for the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic. The clinic has been an active part of Seattle's Central District since 1970. |
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| Featuring performances by Laura Piece Kelley |
![[Photo of Laura Pierce Kelly]](img/src2010/Kelley-BW.jpg) |
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Piece's contribution to Seattle's richly diverse musical scene is beyond prominent. After earning a permanent placement in the archives of Seattle's Experience Music Project Museum, for founding Seattle's longest running jam session "Jumbablaya", she began yet another collective of musicians known as "Queens Ransom". Throughout 2010, Piece will be touring "Street Smartz: The Story of a True School B-girl" with Queens Ransom - the incredible 9 piece ensemble of talented young urban musicians from Seattle. Street Smartz received a Hollywood Music Award for best Hip Hop Artist, and is the soundtrack to Piece's one woman play which represents Hip Hop through theater, music, and spoken word. Her unique delivery and lyrical content is integrated with vintage jazz and Hip Hop. She has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and the documentary Underground Poets Railroad. Piece was also recently commissioned by the international non-profit organization Seeds of Compassion, to write and perform a poem for His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, when he visited Seattle. Piece has been writing poetry and performing her work publicly since the beginning of Seattle's slam poetry movement and was crowned the National Grand Slam Champion for 2004-2005.
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Featured Exhibit: South Park PhotoVoice a program designed and taught by local artists, instructors and volunteers. Presents community members’ daily lives and needs through photography and writing in order to strengthen community and generate dialogue on local issues. Intended as a vehicle for social change. |
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History of South Park PhotoVoice |
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| An Act of Violence Spurs a Call to Action |
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Standing outside the South Park Community Center one evening in April 2005, Julian Perez heard a gunshot rip through the air. It was a drive-by shooting. Perez, a doctor, was the first one to arrive at the scene. He immediately responded by providing what medical assistance he could, but the young man, who lost too much blood during crucial moments before arriving at the hospital, did not survive. This first hand experience of such a violent act prompted Dr. Perez to take action. He was joined by a committee of peers and through their vision and dedication to create a better place for youth within the South Park neighborhood, attracted the attention of civic leaders and key decision makers. Receiving funding from the Mayor’s Office as part of a much larger initiative to improve South Park, the South Park PhotoVoice program was developed. Its purpose was to educate youth about violence and give them a platform to share their opinions through the lens of creative expression. Since its inception, the program has grown to become a forum where traditionally silent voices can be heard. Living artists mentor these young residents who continue participation in a dialogue about all the complexities of the community in which they live by creating artwork for a wide audience.
www.photovoiceseattle.com |
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| Workshops include: |
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| When the Bough Breaks: A Dialogue About Racism’s Effects on Birth Outcomes |
Presented by: Public Health – Seattle & King County/Equal Start Community Coalition
Native American babies die at three times the rate, and African American babies die at twice the rate, as babies of other ethnicities in King County. The Equal Start Community Coalition seeks to eliminate these racial disparities in birth outcome by promoting healthy mothers, healthy families and healthy communities. In this workshop participants will receive data on racial disparities in birth outcomes in King County, gain knowledge of what is currently being done to address these issues and dialogue about what still needs to be done to eliminate racial disparities in birth outcomes in King County. |
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| Real Talk: The health care law and you |
| Presented by:Washington Community Action Network |
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| Health care reform is now the law of the land, but what does it actually mean? How will we be impacted, what will change, and what will remain the same? Join organizers of the national health care reform campaign for a breakdown of the new health care law, the campaign that got us there, and what’s next. Learn about what we’ve won and what it takes to win as we continue to fight for equitable health care. |
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| Envisioning Environmental Justice |
| Presented by: Community Coalition for Environmental Justice, Duwamish River Clean Up Coalition, Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority, Idea Space; Facilitated by, Morgan Barry, Public Health – Seattle & King County Environmental Health Division |
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| Environmental Justice communities are most often poor communities of color that demonstrate significant health disparities. A brief overview of King County data on EJ and health disparities, stories and descriptions by representatives from some of these communities about their challenges, successes and envisioning a healthier future. |
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| Keeping It Real: Pulling All the Work together in a “High Risk” Neighborhood |
| Presented by: White Center Community Development Association |
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| Hear from a wide range of White Center youth, seniors, residents and educators about how the community is making intuitive driven Health Interventions relevant to the people. Effective social networking approaches to bringing health resources to impoverished, immigrant, and refugee communities will be addressed. |
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| Community Action Teams: Organizing for healthy communities in the High Point and Greenbridge neighborhoods |
| Presented by: Be Active Together, Neighborhood House |
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A multiethnic and multigenerational team of neighborhood leaders share their experience assessing and addressing issues in their neighborhood that promote a healthy community. This model of capacity building is one strategy one of the Be Active Together project, a five-year National Institute of Health funded initiative to address health disparities in two public housing communities with an emphasis in advocacy, community building and physical activities. The program goal is to increase physical activity and health in these communities by partnering with residents and community service providers. |
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| What’s Race got to do with Port Trucks? |
| Presented by: Puget Sound SAGE |
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| The workshop will look at the national movement for clean air and immigrant workers' rights in port cities across the nation, including Seattle. Community, labor, environmental and faith leaders have come together as the Coalition for Clean & Safe Ports to fix the broken port trucking system: to improve the "sweatshops on wheels" working conditions for port truck drivers and to reduce diesel emissions in port neighborhoods at the same time. Hear from immigrant truck drivers and organizers about the strategic campaign to urge the Port Commission to adopt a comprehensive Clean Trucks policy that would address the interrelated problems of environmental and economic injustice. |
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| Youth in Action! A Policy Forum |
| Presented by:Center for MultiCultural Health |
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| The Center for MultiCultural Health (CMCH) is working with seven youth groups from various faith based organizations to engage youth and their adult allies as leaders in galvanizing communities to end childhood obesity in Seattle & King County. The long-term goal of the Youth in Action! initiative of the CMCH is to address the issue of childhood obesity by improving the availability of affordable healthy foods in several communities throughout the county. The youth used photovoice, a concept that enables people to record and reflect on a community’s strengths and problems, as a way to promote dialogue and increase community awareness of issues that affect access to healthy and affordable foods. The workshop will present the youth’s findings and suggest policies for improvement and change within these and additional communities. Our objective for the workshop will be to discuss policies that are being reviewed & implemented in King County and Washington state that relate to healthy eating and reasons to support these efforts. |
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| Asthma management disparities: Why our institutions are failing African American youth and how we can fight back |
| Presented by: City of Seattle Human Services Department |
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| This workshop looks at the impact of governmental policies on the systematic maintenance of asthma management disparities in African American youth and strategies for engaging African American youth in reclaiming and reforming these policies to eliminate asthma management disparities. |
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| How racism is embodied: A new social determinants of health curriculum |
| Presented by: Just Health Action |
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Just Health Action (JHA) advocates for reducing health inequities that result from social, political, and economic factors (social determinants of health). Using a social justice lens, JHA teaches workshops and classes that reviews the evidence and then facilitates discussion and consensus on how individuals and communities can take action on these root causes. Racism is one of the most significant determinants of health in our society. This workshop describes the development and teaching of our new Racism & Health curriculum with a specific focus on how racism is embodied in biological well-being. With the use of several interactive exercises, our new curriculum examines the levels of racism, the racism/health evidence, the different models used to explain racial health inequalities, and a discussion of how students might take action on racism with this new knowledge. The curriculum was developed and piloted at the middle school, university, and community health clinic levels. In this interactive workshop, we will describe our curriculum, student actions taken, curriculum challenges and successes, as well as the results of our evaluation. |
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| Proactive Influence : Health at the Policy Level for Immigrant and Refugee Communities |
| Presented by:City of Seattle Immigrant and Refugee Advisory Board |
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| Active participation at the policy level is a crucial part in eliminating health inequities. The constituents who voice their interest to legislators have historically influenced positive policies at the city, state, and federal level. Immigrant and Refugee communities as part of the larger minority groups have additional challenges/barriers including but not limited to language barriers and decreased education on policy and how decisions are made at the governmental institutions. This workshop is to provide a teach-in on policy and how decisions are made and the importance of civic engagement and its relationship to promoting healthy communities. The workshop will provide basic 101 on how to participate in the legislative process for immigrant and refugee communities. |
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| Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? |
| Presented by: King County Equity & Social Justice Initiative |
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Viewing of PBS Series Unnatural Causes that looks at the impact of racism and social inequities on health. Segments followed by facilitated discussion to identify actions to address social inequities in King County. |
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| The Role of Listening and Emotional Healing in Building Healthy Communities and an Equitable Healthcare System |
Presented by: United to End Racism |
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Learn listening and emotional healing skills to take charge of our own health and the health of our communities including healing from the hurts of racism and genocide, reclaiming our power as healthcare workers and activists and bringing these skills home. |
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| Community Acupuncture – Breaking Down Barriers of Access in Health Care |
Presented by: CommuniChi Acupuncture Clinic |
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A brief history of community acupuncture as a community (local) based solution to high cost health care.
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| A Policy Architecture for Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities |
| Presented by: Marc Brenman, former Executive Director, Washington State Human Rights Commission |
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The presenter served on the federal interagency task force on eliminating minority health disparities in Washington, DC. As part of those efforts, he developed a policy architecture on the subject. This is an attempt to organize efforts, add structure and an approach, develop criteria and a way of looking at the overall approach to accomplishing the task, and provide those involved with a common framework and basis for discussion. A policy architecture sets out what we know about a subject, provides a structure to describe it, how to think about it, and provides a unifying form or structure by showing how the parts fit together to reach the identified objective. It is action oriented and practical, as opposed to theoretical, and is helpful for strategic planning. |
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| SLOW SUICIDE: Why do we neglect body, mind, and spirit? |
| Presented by: Delbert Richardson, The “Unspoken Truths” |
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| The workshop will focus on the historical roots and the psychological impact of chattel slavery that plague African Americans today. The American History Exhibit: The “Unspoken Truths” will be used a backdrop to facilitate discussion centered around why black people die at unprecedented rates from preventable diseases like heart disease, cancer, and strokes. |
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Healing Communities by Reducing Racism |
| Presented by: Cross Cultural Connections |
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| Many recent studies show the direct relationship between stress caused by racism and greater health risks. Participants will actively engage one another in conversations about subtle, often well-intended racial attacks that create stress and will learn tools to combat this form of bias. We practice ways to cultivate healthier environments based on an understanding of racism and privilege, rather than a presumption of colorblindness. |
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| Orientalism and Healthcare: the unenlightened history of "alternative healing" in the US |
| Presented by: Chilan Ta and Michelle Kleisath |
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With a focus on the historical precedents for "alternative healing" practices in the US, this workshop will bring a critical race lens to bear on current manifestations of Eastern medicine practice in the U.S. How is Eastern medicine being used? by whom? and for who's benefit? how is the Asian American community represented in the field of "alternative healing"? and how are today's representations of Asia linked with Asian American history? We will explore these questions together with group discussions and exercises.
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