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”Sister to Sister” A Peer Educational Model with a Home Part Format |
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Implementing CLAS Standards: A State Health Department Perspective |
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Joyce J. Dolbec MA
Dot Champlin Peer Educator |
Georgia Simpson May MS
Paul Oppedisano, MPH
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| The YWCA Northern Rhode Island “Sister to Sister” Program’s goal is to reach, teach and serve all women and their families regarding their health issues especially our minority communities in NRI area. Trained Peer Educators provide health screening information to their peers in an informal, fun and easy to learn format in English, Spanish and alternative formats. In recognition of the link between lower socioeconomic status and the increase in delayed diagnosis of cancer, our office maintains a close relationship with each recruited individual to insure follow-thru of each screening process. |
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) CLAS Initiative, led by the Office of Health Equity, has the goal of developing and implementing Massachusetts-specific standards consistent with the national CLAS Standards throughout MDPH’s procurement and internal operations. The CLAS Initiative utilizes a committee structure to develop project goals and deliverables. The presentation will discuss the strengths of the CLAS Initiative infrastructure and products to date.
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Summer Nursing Camp: Experiential Learning to Feed the Pipeline |
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Partnerships to Implement CLAS Standards in Health Care Settings |
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Paula Smith MBA
Samia Medina Rogers RN, BSN |
Sherri Carello BA
Carrie Bridges MPH
Jean Marie Rocha, Hospital Association of RI |
This workshop will provide participants with lessons learned regarding the establishment and operation of an experiential summer day camp for disadvantaged and/or minority youth entering or leaving the eighth grade. Topics will include curriculum development, community partners, and camper recruitment. Available evaluation data will be shared.
This is a two-part workshop combined with: |
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH), Hospital Association of RI, and Northern RI Area Health Education Center provide statewide leadership to implement the National Standards for the Provision of CLAS Standards. This workshop will help participants to describe a model for developing language access policies and systems in state government that advance efforts to eliminate health disparities. It will also help them to describe strategies for engaging diverse stakeholders, and facilitate a workgroup that develops tools, provides technical assistance, and build a support network to implement the CLAS Standards.
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Closing the Disparities Gap: How MassAHEC Youth Programs Prepare a Culturally Competent Workforce |
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Addressing Disparities and Promoting Advocacy: Two Decades of Research Among Older Urban Adults |
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Sharon A. Grundel MEd
Peter L. Holtgrave MA, MPH
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Kim E. Radda RN, MA
Jean J. Schensul PhD
Elsie Vazquez-Long BA
Emil Coman PhD |
| MassAHEC prepares a health care workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities they serve. As an organization dedicated to health care workforce development, MassAHEC has established strong partnerships with K-12 schools, the Massachusetts Department of Education, post-secondary institutions, community health centers, hospitals, legislators, community-based organizations and workforce development entities. In this workshop promising models will be shared and discussed.
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This workshop will present an overview of Community Based Collaborative Research (CBCR), an effective approach to conducting research that explores various, often sensitive, health issues of concern to older adults. Utilizing case studies drawn from specific projects, including such health concerns as Alzheimer’s disease, HIV/AIDS, depression and influenza. The session will describe the components of successful partnerships; describe the challenges and benefits of this approach; identify health inequities and barriers to care, as well as the personal and societal costs of health disparities; describe the methods employed to test hypotheses; and identify knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that impact health and disease.
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The Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition: Addressing Health Disparities in Mattapan, Massachusetts |
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A Cultural Response to HIV Stigma |
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Vivien Morris MS, RD, MPH, LDN
Joanne Soulouque MSW, MPH
Karen Spiller BA
Cassandra Cato-Louis AB |
Chioma Nnaji MPH, MEd |
| Having the distinction of being a Boston neighborhood with a substantial number of people who are overweight, diabetic and facing additional adverse health effects primarily because access to healthy foods and fitness opportunities in or near the neighborhood is limited, Mattapan Food & Fitness Coalition (MFFC) was organized in January 2007. The primary goal of our organization is to improve the food and fitness environment of our neighborhood by galvanizing community residents and neighborhood organizations toward this end. MFFC hopes to show families that, by eating healthy foods and exercising daily, they have the power to prevent many chronic diseases and reduce the health disparities. |
Africans for Improved Access Program is a Boston-based AIDS-intervention organization, developed In Our House (IOH): An African Story Video and Curriculum – a 12 module cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to reduce HIV stigma among Sub-Saharan African immigrants and refugees (SSAs). Achieved through a strength-based approach, IOH fosters responsibility, and requires individuals to build on the strengths of the community and normalize the issue of HIV by actively participating in an achievable solution. |
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Healing Our Community Collaborative - Innovative Partnerships: A Community of Women Empowering Each Other |
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Heidi Bright MS, APRN-BC, LADC
Beth Hastie MPH
Tonia Hines NA
Christine Johnsen MPH, MS, APRN-BC |
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The Healing Our Community Collaborative (HOCC), a Community of Women Empowering Each Other in order to reduce the barriers that prevent women from taking care of themselves, was established in 1997. The chief objective of HOCC is to improve the health and well-being of women living with, affected by, and at risk of HIV by: increasing health care literacy; building life skills such as accessing healthcare and benefits, negotiation around safer sex and relationships; increasing the number of women at risk who know their HIV status; and ultimately decreasing the number of new HIV infections in women.
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