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Road to NDEAM: Medical Professionals with Disabilities
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In a world where there is a severe shortage of clinical professionals, disabled people are not only a ready source of talent but a source of insight and innovation. In the first part of RespectAbility’s three-part Road to NDEAM webinar series, learn from three medical professionals with disabilities about how you can access this talent pool.
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Jackie Anne (Senz) Blair, Site Manager, Velocity Clinical Research, Inc.
Dr. Peter Poullos, Founder, Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability Inclusion and Equity
Dr. Adam Schmidt, Associate Professor, Texas Tech
Moderated by Jimmy Fremgen, Manager of State Policy, RespectAbility
Breaking Down the Ivory Tower: Building the Health Care Workforce America Needs
The August 8th event featured speakers who challenged our audience to address academic elitism in health education, reimagining an educational system that supports all students and trainees as they learn to care for a diverse patient population. Within the context of the historical and contemporary forces that have shaped the current medical workforce landscape in the U.S., our speakers elevated strategies for addressing the long-standing underrepresentation of historically excluded populations in clinical programs.
The National Health Equity Grand Rounds is a live virtual event series that highlights the root causes of present-day health inequities by tracing the historical and contemporary social, economic, political, geographic, and environmental forces that shape opportunities for health in the United States.
The National Health Equity Grand Rounds series is developed by the American Medical Association, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and RespectAbility, with support from the ABIM Foundation, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, American Medical Association Ed Hub, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, HealthBegins, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, RUSH, Sinai Chicago, The Hastings Center and The Joint Commission.
Achieving Full Inclusion: A Conversation On Economic Security, The ADA, And Disability Advocacy
To mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition hosted a virtual conversation with Lydia X. Z. Brown, Director of Public Policy at the National Disability Institute, and Aaron Kaufman, co-chair of IDAC. Together, they discussed how economic security for people with disabilities is essential to fulfill the promise of the ADA. Attendees learned how we can all engage in disability advocacy through an intersectional lens.
Fireside Chat: Changing Attitudes by Amplifying Authentic Disability Narratives
Changing attitudes means that we challenge stigma and amplify authentic narratives on disability. We’re proud to be a “nothing about us, without us” organization, led by those with a diversity of disabilities and other intersectional identities. Disabled people are the best experts on their lived experience, and we work to promote this reality across our pillars. Watch this webinar to hear from members of our Board and Staff about our work in this area, and our vision for the coming years.
APA Heritage and Mental Health: Conversation on Autism and ADHD
As part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month, Los Angeles Public Library, The Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative, and RespectAbility hosted a candid discussion about the lived autistic, ADHD, and Asian American experience and how they affect mental health. [continue reading…]
Fireside Chat: Developing Disabled Leaders
Developing leaders means that we model the practice of training and empowering the next generation of leaders in disability advocacy across our pillars. This includes investing in our staff through professional development and building new pathways for employee recognition and advancement. We also created new policies to shape a workplace environment that centers equity and inclusion. In 2022, RespectAbility trained 34 Apprentices and ran three Labs for 52 disabled entertainment professionals. More than 400 people have graduated from one of our pipeline programs since 2013.
Watch the recording to learn from members of our Staff, and alumni of our pipeline programs, about our work in this area, and our vision for the coming years. [continue reading…]
Community Connectedness and Technology
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Throughout the pandemic, technology solutions provided opportunities for people with I/DD and their families to participate in what used to be inaccessible activities and environments. Today, tools such as virtual platforms, communication technologies, connected communities, and cognitively accessible solutions are applied in innovative ways to decrease loneliness and provide ways for individuals to access religious and spiritual environments. Our presenters discussed the utilization of technology solutions across domains and innovative approaches spiritual leaders are using to reach new audiences and allow greater participation from people with I/DD. [continue reading…]
Follow the Money! Understanding the Structural Incentives for Inequity in Health Care and Beyond
This event featured speakers who are dismantling inequity within and beyond health care. Expert speakers challenged our audience to participate in the reimagination of a health care system that centers community and healing over profiteering. Our speakers discussed how profit in health care incentivizes inequity by perpetuating and exacerbating segregated systems of care, which serves to maintain class inequality. They also highlighted strategies for disrupting our existing systems to catalyze change within and beyond single institutions; and explored how the process of undoing structural incentives for inequity creates opportunities for collective liberation and healing.
