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Critical MASS and The Mayor’s Health Task Force Taking Community Action on Health Disparities  |
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| C4 |
Removing Barriers by Enhancing Linkages to Care In Jail Settings for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS |
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Kerone Anderson MSW, MPH
Milagro Grullon MM
Roxanne Reddington-Wilde PhD |
Maureen Desabrais MEd, LSW, LADC-1, CCDP-D
Helen Loewenthal MSW
Alison O. Jordan LCSW, CCPB
Jacqueline Cruzado-Quinones CAPC |
| The Lawrence, Massachusetts’ Mayor’s Health Task Force (MHTF) will demonstrate their toolkit and how it could be used to foster and develop community groups/task forces/coalitions. It will highlight its work within Lawrence regarding Health Disparities and illustrate how community members/organizations can work together to address health needs of their own community. |
Three sites will present a continuum-of-care model for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) leaving city jails. Learn about creative approaches to removing barriers to care, how to establish a medical home for PLWHA, and how jail-based services provide a unique opportunity to address public health services and minority health disparities. Policy development and implementation, case studies, and a shared vision will be addressed. |
| C2 |
Stepping Up To The Challenge: Addressing CHW Workforce Issues Through Advocacy |
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| C5 |
Latinas Rompiendo Barreras de Salud: Latinas Breaking Health Barriers |
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| Cindy Marti MPH |
Gretchen Latowsky BA, MEd
Erika Moreno M.A. Theology – Enrolled
Myriam Hernandez Jennings BA, MA
Flor Maldonado, Latino Health Specialist |
Examining the issues facing efforts to have a stronger more effective CHW workforce - adequate and appropriate funding, system changes to improve the field, efforts to organize, raising the awareness of CHW’s impact. Advocacy training will also be addressed.
This is a two-part workshop combined with: |
Looking at issues of reproductive health, this will be an interactive planning session to develop a model for effective, culturally appropriate and respectful outreach, engagement, and education programs for minority women. Identify key findings: develop target issues; plans for sharing focus group results; address unhealthy practices; develop strategies to help women access reproductive health care when they lack health insurance; documentation and an understanding of the U.S. health care system.
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| C2 |
Proactive to Reactive Research: State Count of Community Health Workers in Response to Promoting the CHW Workforce |
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| C6 |
Perceptions and Practice: Explorations of research participation and health concerns among residents of an ethnically diverse urban neighborhood |
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| Dannie Ritchie MD, MPH |
Karen T. Craddock PhD, EdM
Niraj. R. Chavan, M.B.B.S., M.P.H. |
| This workshop will describe local and national efforts to promote the Community Health Worker (CHW) workforce; the process and reasons that led to a statewide survey and its results; review resistance to a workforce building program; describe road blocks/barriers; and describe future plans and mechanisms for promoting the workforce. |
It is widely understood that participation in health research can yield improved health outcomes and development of treatments, thereby emphasizing the need to increase access to and awareness about research opportunities in ethnically diverse communities affected by health disparities who statistically show under representation in research. Participation can be influenced by willingness, knowledge and opportunities for involvement. Commonly held perceptions of reluctance due to mistrust need further exploration, as recent studies reveal that minority communities were just as willing to participate in health research when eligible and invited. A community survey was developed to explore perceptions of research with ratings for motivators to research participation and identification of key health issues. Emergent findings suggest that perceptions of key health concerns affecting the community and willingness to participate in health research were linked to the socio-cultural and socio-political context. This presentation will discuss these selected results and surveying strategies which reveal the significance of collecting community perceptions as an initial step in a community-based-participatory-research approach. |
| C3 |
Effective Health Literacy Practices: Improving the Health Care Experience |
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| C6 |
Capturing the Voices of Community Members |
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| Mary M. Philbin EdM |
Grace Damio MS, CD/N
Joan Cruz BBA |
This interactive workshop will give an overview of low health literacy and its implications for patients, providers and health care systems. Learn about evidence-based information, effective strategies for addressing the issue at both the provider and system levels, and patient experiences; discuss and explore issues, and have an opportunity to assess patient education materials for effectiveness.
This is a two-part workshop combined with: |
Through its role in the Community Core of the Center for Eliminating Health Disparities Among Latinos, the Hispanic Health Council used community-based participatory research strategy in the form of a series of community dialogues on the health topics of diabetes, cancer and depression. This session will discuss the community dialogue as a community-based participatory research strategy for community involvement and empowerment towards eliminating health inequities. |
| C3 |
Overcoming Health Literacy Barriers: A Model for Action |
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| C7 |
Increasing Genetic Literacy in Underserved Populations Using Community-Based Participatory Principles: The Consumer Genetics Education Network (CGEN) Project |
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Lorraine Mancuso MSN,Ed
Emily Scheideler ADN |
Diane Ashton MD, MPH
Louisa Stark PhD
Shao-Chee Sim, PhD
Finie Richardson MPH
Claudia de la Cruz MSW, MDiv |
Two health education programs will be discussed: safe medication practices and a health fair targeting cardiovascular risk. Presenters will discuss program outcomes including educational materials, presentations and storyboards they developed. Sharing materials written for these programs with providers informs others about health literacy barriers for this group and provides tools to enhance quality of care.
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Four diverse communities developed culturally and linguistically appropriate educational intervention materials to increase genetic literacy in minority communities. This workshop will present a segment of each educational intervention through interactive presentations. Participants will learn how community members contributed to and influenced each project. Some preliminary outcome data will be shared. Best practices in developing educational materials for underserved communities will be discussed. |
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