Dates: Weekly from September 5 - October 10, 2024 at 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Location: Zoom Meeting
Delivery Method: Live Webinar
Prerequisites and or Pre-Work: None
Program Level: Beginner/Foundational

Overview

Health centers are on the front lines of addressing health inequities for people of color and advancing racial justice is a key part of our health center mission. It is critical that as members of the health center field, we have a solid understanding of systemic racism, it effects on patients and health centers, and the skills to be in respectful, inclusive cross-racial relationships.

NACHC will host a webinar series that condenses and adapts our foundational, e-learning course on racial justice, Ground Work, for a live audience. In six engaging sessions, we will highlight the key beginner concepts and take questions from participants for an interactive learning experience. Participants are not required to attend every session, feel free to join as your schedule allows or as fits your learning needs.

Can’t make the live webinars? Check out the on-demand, e-learning Ground Work course for all the sessions and more!

Learning Objectives

• Gain an understanding of the concepts of social identity, race, and ethnicity.
• Gain an understanding of systemic racism and how it affects the health of patients. 
• Identify ways to recognize and address implicit bias and microaggressions in interactions with patients and colleagues.

Who

The Ground Work webinar series is appropriate for:

• All health center professionals; this is not a role restricted course.
• Beginners to the racial justice journey or those who want a more foundational understanding of race/ethnicity, systemic racism, and respectful cross-racial relationships.

Schedule

Participants are not required to attend every session, feel free to join as your schedule allows or as fits your learning needs.

Thursday, September 5; 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET : Identity and Privilege

The session explores how our membership to certain social groups influence our lives, shape our perspective, and convey unearned advantages and disadvantages. This session will help learners realize the ways in which they hold (or don’t) a sense of belonging or power through uncontrollable characteristics, and consequently empathize with people who may hold more non-dominant identities.  

Learning objectives:

• Learners will have a working definition of social identity, dominant culture, privilege, and intersectionality.
• Learners will reflect on their own social identity and analyze the ways in which they are affected by these identities.
• Learners will understand the definition of 'race’ and the ways in which racial identity conveys advantages and disadvantages.

Thursday, September 12; 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET : Systemic Racism

The session explains how laws, policies, and structures in the United States both historically and today, created racial inequities in wealth, housing, education, and more. Learners will apply this information to the health of their communities and patients in the next session.  

Learning objectives:

• Learners will understand how the law and policy created a racial hierarchy in the United States.
• Learners will make connections between current day inequities and systemic racism.

Thursday, September 19; 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET : How Racism Affects Health

This session connects systemic racism to the health inequities observed at the patient level by health centers every day. NACHC’s Population Health Division explains how health centers can begin to address health inequities through screening for social needs, building community collaborations, and advocacy.   

Learning objectives:

• Learners will understand how systemic racism and discrimination influence social drivers of health and impact health outcomes. 
• Learners will connect systemic inequities to health inequities observed at the individual level.
• Learners will identify ways to address social drivers of health in their work.

Thursday, September 26; 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET : Implicit Bias and Culture Humility

The session asks learners to examine how implicit biases can contribute to inequitable experience of health care and the workplace for people of color. Learners are challenged to identify their own implicit biases and are given the tools to help mitigate those biases.  

Learning objectives:

• Learners will examine their own implicit racial biases.
• Learners will learn tools for addressing implicit racial biases.
• Learners will be introduced to the principles of cultural humility.

Thursday, October 3; 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET: Interpersonal Relationships and Microaggressions

The session further explores the role of race in our interpersonal relationships with our patients and colleagues. Expert faculty will explain how every day, subtle comments or behaviors can be racially offensive and harmful, even unintentionally. Learners are provided strategies for addressing these harms in the workplace and in relationships with patients. 

Learning objectives:

• Learners will recognize the harm of a “race-neutral” approach to race.
• Learners will gain an understanding of micro-aggressions and how to respond to micro-aggressions as either the offender or target.

Thursday, October 10; 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET : Pride, Culture, and Resiliency

This session highlights the resiliency and agency of communities of people of color throughout United States history. A diverse group of our health center colleagues share their personal connection to and pride in their own racial and ethnic identities.  

Learning objectives:

• Learners will recognize the joy and positivity of racial/cultural identity.
• Learners will understand the accomplishments and self-determination of marginalized racial groups in the United States.

Can’t make the live webinars? Check out the on-demand, e-learning Ground Work course for all the sessions above and more!