Caring for Communities of Color Conference

Thank you to everyone who joined us today to engage in these meaningful discussions. We can’t wait to see you next year!

Join us right now!

Last day to register for our annual conference tomorrow! Grab your ticket NOW at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-caring-for-communities-of-color-conference-2021-registration-162173654767

We cannot wait to share all we have been up to with you! All peoples interested in healthcare are welcome. The conference is free, virtual, and open to the public.

The Caring for Communities of Color Conference 2021 A one-day, interactive conference diving deep into the elements of HOME to better serve communities of color in the healthcare field.

Welcome to our collaborators: Street Medicine Detroit! We are grateful for the assistance of Street Medicine Detroit in planning our Home as Place workshop and cannot wait to learn from their experiences working with individuals experiencing homelessness.

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Welcome to our next speaker: Arianna Zrzavy. Arianna will be a panelist for our Home as Planet workshop and will help facilitate discussions regarding environmental racism. Thank you for joining us Arianna!

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Welcome to our next speaker: Dr. Paul Mohai! Dr. Mohai will be a panelist for our discussion of environmental racism during the Home as Planet Workshop. We are excited to learn from him.

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Welcome to our next speaker: Delma Jackson III! Delma will be a panelist for our Home as Community Workshop and will share his perspective on how a community can impact the health of individuals.

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Welcome to our next speaker: Desiraé Simmons! Desiraé will be a panelist for our Home as Planet Workshop. We cannot wait to learn from her!

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Welcome to our next speaker: Daicia Price! Daicia will lead our Home as Body workshop by first sharing her personal experiences before leading a panel discussing interactions with police.

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Please welcome our next speaker: Donovan Innis. Donovan will be sharing his personal climate story during the Home as Planet workshop where we will get to learn how climate change has impacted his home community. We are grateful and excited to learn from Donovan!

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Dr. Kimberly Farrow will be a speaker for the Home as Community workshop where she will discuss her own identity and how she navigates her job as a physician and President & CEO at Central City Integrated Health. She will delve into what it means to serve patients from various communities to ensure they receive supportive, high-quality care.

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Dr. Deidre Hurse will be a panelist for the Home as Community Workshop. She will be touching on the importance of identity and community from the patient perspective. Specifically, Dr. Hurse will shed light on the ways in which individuals are viewed in the professional setting and juxtapose this to how individuals of various identities and communities are treated as patients.

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Calling all health professions students in Southeastern Michigan! We want to talk with YOU so that we can equip current and future providers with tools to serve BIPOC communities!

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Our final workshop is Home as Body. This workshop will begin with Daicia Price sharing her story before facilitating conversations with a panel of experts regarding interactions with police and how healthcare workers can help all to feel safe.

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We are honored and excited to welcome Dr. Rama Salhi as our 2021 keynote speaker! Dr. Salhi is a practicing emergency medicine physician, health services researcher, and advocate. Join us on October 9th to hear her call to action to move beyond the bedside to eradicate health disparities. Register at the link in bio!

Thank you to all of our wonderful sponsors for supporting this years conference! We are proud to be supported by Michigan Medicine Department of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Surgery. We are also excited to be sponsored by UMAC, OutMD, and MSMD student groups.

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Our next workshop: Home as Place.

We are excited to partner with Street Medicine Detroit, a group that serves individuals experiencing homelessness in Detroit, to discuss the importance and challenges met when seeking to provide equitable care to this vulnerable population.
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Welcome to our newest team member, Gabriella!

Join us on October 9th to see the work of all of our wonderful team members. Register at the link in bio!

Our next workshop is Home as Community!

During this workshop, attendees will be able to both listen to a group of panelists share their perspective on the role of community in health care and explore their own understanding of how a community can impact health. We look forward to engaging with you all on October 9th.

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We are thrilled to showcase another wonderful team member, Eman! Eman has been hard at work helping to design one of our workshops this year, Home as Body.

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We are excited to announce the theme of our next workshop: Home as Planet.

This will be a thought-provoking and self-reflective workshop discussing environmental justice and the impacts of environmental racism on human health. In this session, we will hear from Donovan Innis, a fellow University of Michigan Medical Student as he discusses his climate story. We will also discuss environmental racism in Southeast Michigan before hosting a panel discussion Q&A.

We look forward to engaging in this discussion with you all on October 9th. Register at the link in our bio.

Hannah is a second-year medical student at UMMS passionate about shifting power and resources to communities of color. Hannah graduated from Wellesley College in 2011 with a double major in Music and Peace and Justice Studies. In the years since, she has conducted research in health equity and palliative care, worked on urban farms, and served as an organizer with Kavod House in Boston, mobilizing Jewish communities around food justice and anti-racism initiatives.

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Don’t forget to register at the link in our bio for the 2021 conference taking place on October 9th

This session will be an introduction to the concept of intersectionality, its origin, and its application to patient care as a foundation for participants to build and reflect upon throughout the conference.

In addition to a brief teaching on the concept itself, we will also walk through a general framework for adjusting ways in which clinicians gather information about their patients, assess their own individual competencies in caring for patients of color, evaluate the safety of their clinical spaces, and further brainstorm gaps
in their practices that can be addressed
to provide more comprehensive,
trauma-informed, holistic care.

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We are SO excited to announce the schedule and link to register for our 2021 Caring for Communities of Color Conference! Go to the link in our bio to register for this years virtual conference!

This virtual, interactive conference aims to amplify the community of providers engaging in health justice work in SE Michigan, and equip current and future providers with tools to serve BIPOC communities. This year’s theme is “Home,” a multifaceted concept not always experienced as safe. For healthcare providers who inherently work in a realm of vulnerability with patients, it is crucial to understand the unique experiences of “Home” for BIPOC patients with intersecting, marginalized identities. Join us for this full-day conference in which we will utilize intersectional frameworks to explore what it feels like to be ‘home,’ and use this understanding to advocate for liberation and justice for BIPOC communities.

Meet Nashia A. Choudhury, MPH, a member of our workshop design team!

Nashia is a public health professional and a social justice and health equity advocate living in Southeast Michigan. Nashia’s interest in the field of public health stems from working with populations facing racial and ethnic disparities that often lead to low health equity due to the impact of social determinants of health. She seeks to continue efforts of breaking down these barriers to access by addressing social determinants of health needs in the metro Detroit area.

We are extending the application deadline for our 2021 Caring for Communities of Color Conference Team! If you or someone you know has a passion for health justice, head to http://bit.ly/join-CCCC for more details on how to apply!

Available positions include:
Administration
Workshop Design
Marketing
Funding
Speaker and Attendee Communication
Community Outreach
Tech and Operations

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