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Equity in MOTION
Mitigating the On-going Threat of Inequities & Offensive Norms within Health-related Programs
Community Listening Sessions
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Our proposed Equity in MOTION program will focus on Mitigating the On-going Threat of Inequities & Offensive Norms within Health-related Programs. Equity in MOTION will conduct community listening sessions to explore perceptions of racism/discrimination as barriers to achieving optimal health and health-seeking among the Black community in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Measuring Impact
The persistence of racial disparities within healthcare is associated with various interconnected factors, such as historical, cultural, social, social, and psychological. The continued inequalities in social institutions hinder organizations from properly addressing discrimination experienced by people of color (Thomas, 2018a). Equity in MOTION will leverage the critical race theory, which asserts that historically based and institutional ideology of white supremacy and privilege is sustained by racism ingrained in our society (Obasogie et al., 2017, Volpe et al., 2019). As a result, Equity in MOTION aims to address organization racism that, over time, functions as a “cloak of invisibility,” rendering racialized and racially hierarchical structures racially neutral and rational. Equity in MOTION will primarily focus on advancing Birth Equity (with a special focus on the intersection of breastfeeding, infant mortality, and maternal morbidity) through Advancing health equity through the Acknowledgment & Acceptance of the adverse effects of racism/discrimination (regardless of the method perceived/ implicit/ overt, biases, microaggressions, e.g.) and creating Systems of Change via Community Mobilizing and Movement Building.
Birth equity
Leveraging the Critical Race Theory (CRT) & Social Ecological Model (SME) Equity in MOTION program will provide strategic advisory services to Community Based Organizations (CBO) and health related program administrative teams by consulting on all aspects of the impact of long-standing systemic social and health inequities, including some that have been introduced or exacerbated by federal, state, and local policies.
Geographic Services/ Primary Population Served
This initiative's target population includes Black community members who live, work, and engage in health programs servicing historically marginalized Black individuals located in Hamilton County, Ohio. Black, in terms of this program refers to people who identify as African American/Black who are descendants of slaves brought to the United States involuntarily and the offspring born in the United States from families that originally came from Africa, regardless of additional ethnicity or race. These individuals may have varying ethnicities but have cultures that are historically rooted in the U.S. slave trade that brought people mostly from West and South Africa (Baugh, 2018; Merriam-Webster, n.d.a). Hamilton County Public Health Child Fatality Review Annual Report highlights that the urban core of Hamilton County (City of Cincinnati) communities in the western part of the County and north of the City of Cincinnati have some of the highest child fatality rates.
Services
DEIA: Racial Justice & Health Equity Management Services
Services under this category will focus on creating plans for advancing structural change within programs, units/divisions, and departments.
Data Analytical & Evaluation Services
Prepare Qual/Quan data for quality improvement work, service utilization, and comparative effectiveness.
Subject matter expertise in health education, social sciences, racial equity, cost-effectiveness analysis, comparative effectiveness analysis, quality improvement work, policy analysis, and ecological studies design.
Program Development, Organizational, and Strategic Planning Services
Experience with assisting government agencies with improvements to current policies and services. Expertise in developing comprehensive strategic planning tools.
Manuscript Review
We offer manuscript reviews provide content-focused, big-picture feedback on an entire manuscript (not copy editing). Feedback is sent via email and provides a summary and comments written directly on the manuscript regarding out subject matter expertise.
Panel Discussion& Workshops
We offer panel moderation to facilitate a panel discussion(s) by talking about a specific topic to the panelists and audience regarding racial and health equity focused projects. We offer leadership through high quality, dynamic workshop facilitation, structured coaching of proven skills, engagement of target audience group(s) and team(s) activities, and provision of group-case management to include the sharing of information regarding subject matter expertise.
Visiting Lecturer
RHE's health equity researchers have ample experience in investigating health disparities and promoting health equity through research, advocacy, and community engagement. Our scope of work includes establishing a sustainable culture of health equity research aimed at ensuring equitable health outcomes across diverse patients and populations. Our subject matter expertise includes but not limited to
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Behavioral health in disease risk prediction and reduction; substance use; mental health; smoking cessation; discrimination, racism, and anti-racism; social isolation; health disparities; maternal/infant mortality; population health; social justice and equity; population science; and/or health behavior change.
Keynote speaker
We Have Powerful Guest Speakers who explicitly focused on topics sure as racial equity, health equity, systemic change, perceived discrimination/racism, as well as barriers to health seeking behavior. We are intentional about progressively realizing the right to health means systematically identifying and eliminating inequities resulting from differences in health and in overall living conditions.