Equity

Understanding historical and intergenerational trauma is essential to providing culturally competent and person-centered care. Join us on August 29 for the Social Justice Leadership Academy’s (SJLA) August Learning Series Event as Tamanna Patel, MPH, and Terence Fitzgerald, Ph.D., explore these specific forms of trauma, the impacts they have on individuals…

Despite much of the progress made to date, including the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), millions of individuals in the United States who live with some form of disability – physical, cognitive, developmental, intellectual or sensory – continue to face health disparities and challenges in accessing equitable…

Sosunmolu Shoyinka, MD, MBA, and Rachel Melissa Talley, MD, will discuss Self-Assessment for Modification of Anti-Racism Tool (SMART), the first tool designed specifically to help community behavioral health and other human service organizations assess the extent to which their organizational and clinical processes are affected by racism. Dr. Shoyinka…

In our next episode of Wellbeing Wednesdays, we will shift our attention to health disparities and a health care system that too often leaves people of color and other minorities behind.

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities have been deeply affected by the opioid crisis in the United States. The rate of drug overdose deaths among AI/AN populations is well above the national average, and 2020 data shows this trend continuing. Many Native communities also experience unique health care disparities…