This session will focus on how we reflect our values and mission in the language and content of grant applications and donation pitches. We'll focus on how to review opportunities - when to say yes and, even more importantly, how to evaluate when to say no. We will discuss some useful strategies to ease the burdens of reporting, financial management, and program requirements to help us stay focused on what matters - our patients.
Over the past decade, Esperanza Health Center (EHC) has sought to meaningfully educate and leverage community members to be resources for health and wellness in their spheres of influence. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic propelled us to think creatively around ways to equitably employ community members, thus extending our presence in the community and our ability to respond to emerging needs. This session will utilize EHC’s Community COVID Ambassador program, developed in response to COVID-19 fears and misinformation, as a case study in equitable community engagement. We will also touch on other engagement models. Panel: Lianette Pappaterra, MPH; Maryann Salib, DO, MPH; Anna Cole; Darlene Burton (Community Covid Ambassador)
Modern medicine leads to social iatrogenesis, including prodigal spending on “health,” “medicalizing” normal life from conception to death and morphing clinicians into determiners of ability to work, drive, etc., creating an angst laden “risk management” obsession, and the introduction of “medical morality.” Medicine creates cultural iatrogenesis including the maintenance and amplification of what is a foreign and invasive perspective of suffering and death. Let us reflect on these ideas as we strive to be a faithful manifestation of the health and shalom.
Every year thousands of people are being sexually exploited in the U.S. Allied health professionals often encounter these victims, and proper training increases the likelihood they can identify and respond properly to the situation. This session will deepen your knowledge on risk factors, vulnerabilities, and health concerns that affect trafficking victims, along with the tactics of the traffickers that prey on these individuals. Understanding the mindset of the victim and the trafficker better equips healthcare professionals to develop appropriate response protocols for the safest outcome.
