Greetings,
Each time I sit down to write the introduction to this newsletter, it feels like so much has happened in our worlds and in our lives! Two weeks ago, I traveled to San Diego to attend the annual National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) Conference. It was my first time traveling since the pandemic and I was nervous, but excited to see colleagues and meet new ones. After my laptop went through the screening process at Logan, it stopped working. I was left to rely on my cell phone during entire time in San Diego, even in preparation for the 4-hour Advancing Anti-Racism Strategy on College and University Campuses pre-conference I was co-facilitating with colleagues on the task force. The pre-conference and town hall went really well. There were over 250 attendees to the pre-conference alone. There were over 600 diversity officers who attended in-person and another 400 who attended virtually. I felt energized from being in community with so many folks committed to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the same space!
Last week, Lou Aloise (he/him and they/them pronouns) joined the JEDI Office as the Department Coordinator. Lou comes to us from Century 21 closings division and wanted to engage more directly with JEDI work that he was doing outside of his job. Lou has stepped right in and taken on multiple administrative support tasks. During Lou’s transition process, I am still working on a number of administrative tasks as we pace Lou’s transition process in our very busy office.
This past week, the JEDI Team had a retreat where we talked about our mission, vision, and values. We also started the prioritization process. While we had a mission and vision that I have articulated before, and in a sense it did not feel like us, but more what we were doing to align ourselves with the IHP. With a fully formed team, we were really able to exchange our thoughts and aspirations for this work. We are happy to unveil our JEDI Office mission: We transform institutional culture and health professions education to be just, equitable, and anti-oppressive. In the coming weeks and months, we plan to make time to solidify our organizational documents and strategy and will share those with you.
On the same day as our JEDI retreat, the MA Commission on LGBTQ+ Youth organized an event at the the State House. We missed it, but hope to attend next year.
In community,
Kimberly A. Truong, PhD
Chief Equity Officer
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- Recruiting Power, Privilege, and Positionality Facilitators!
- Announcing JEDI Leadership Award
- Upcoming IHP JEDI Events
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JEDI Office and IHP JEDI Updates
- Continued JEDI Learning
- Wellness Resource Sharing
- Community Events
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Recruiting Power, Privilege, and Positionality Facilitators! |
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In June 2020, President Paula Milone-Nuzzo announced a 100% participation goal for faculty, staff, and incoming students annually. This year's iteration of PPP, starting in June 2022, will focus on health at the intersection of race and immigration.
The next PPP will be held on June 6th, 3:30-5:00pm (with asynchronous engagement on D2L for a month prior to it), via Zoom. If you are interested in facilitating (this counts as part of the participation goal), please sign up here.
As with previous PPP engagements via Zoom, we have been able to provide students with a $100 honorarium for facilitating.
You do not want to miss out on the June PPP! Our confirmed speakers are Monique Nguyen and Dr. Cristina Alonso of Matahari Women Workers' Center and La Colaborativa, respectively.
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Announcing JEDI Leadership Award |
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The Office of the President each year presents the JEDI Leadership Award given to an individual faculty or staff member or group consisting of faculty and/or staff members who exemplify sustained JEDI leadership. Examples of JEDI leadership include, but are not limited to demonstrating a long-standing record of: mentoring marginalized and minoritized students, supporting their peers and colleagues in engaging JEDI issues as well as those who experience marginalization, conducting research on equity and social justice issues and application of this research in their teaching, facilitating programming for the staff community related to JEDI issues, and contributions in their disciplines or working with communities beyond the IHP on equity and social justice.
The award will be announced and presented at Faculty Convocation. The awardee will be presented with a financial token of appreciation and a commemorative plaque.
Learn more and nominate a deserving faculty or staff by clicking here!
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Faculty Workshop: Auditing Your Syllabus for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022, 2:00-3:30 pm via Zoom
In this 90-minute workshop for faculty we'll help you develop a lens for examining your syllabus for Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion and start implementing those with your own syllabus. We invite you to bring a syllabus and work through assessing your syllabus from a JEDI perspective.
Presented by the Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Instructional Design and Teaching Innovation team. Register.
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AAPI Student Space Movie Night - (April 5th, 5pm-7pm)
The Asian / Asian American student space is having their first event this year on
April 5th from 5-7pm. Join to watch a movie! Dinner will
be provided. The goal of the AAPI student affinity space is to foster
connections between AAPI students at the IHP through social events and
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Student Processing Space for the War in Ukraine- (April 5th, 7pm-8pm)
The Student Assistance Program (SAP) and the Justice, Equity, Diversity and
Inclusion (JEDI) Office are hosting a processing space via zoom on Tuesday,
April 5th for support and community with others around the war in Ukraine.
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JEDI Office Info Session
Monday, April 11th @ 12pm via Zoom
Do you have questions about the JEDI Office, JEDI Fellows program, or anything else? Please come to this information session as we share what we've been up to the past 2+ years, discuss the JEDI Fellows Program (and recruit for new JEDI Fellows), and answer your questions!
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IYKYK: Black-Identifying Students Self Care Space w/ Chiamaka Ikpeze
IYKYK- Self Care Space w/ Chiamaka Ikpeze-(April 11th 6pm-7pm)
Join IYKYK, a Black-Identifying Student Space, for a night of healing conversation and good vibes with guest speaker Chiamaka Ikpeze! Founder of @homeishealing [Home| an intuitive counseling service. Chiamaka has experience in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)Professional Development consulting services for major organizations and institutions. She will be supporting the space by providing a space where we feel seen, held, and safe. We will be speaking on community, self awareness and relationships. Register at: https://bit.ly/IYKYKApril Reach out to Scarlett Santos for more information at: SSantosSoto@mghihp.edu.
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Recruiting for JEDI Fellows!
The mission of the JEDI Fellows Program is to support the healthcare profession by engaging students in becoming life-long JEDI learners. JEDI Fellows work closely with academic programs to advance JEDI work and efforts at the IHP; including embedding the JEDI core competencies in curricula that often inadequately addresses how to care for patients of color. A main component of our program is the cohort experience where together, JEDI Fellows navigate the experiences of doing JEDI work through collaboration and building community with one another. Reach out to Jammy for more information at: jmillet@mghihp.edu.
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Students for Equity and Anti-racism (SEA) General Body Meetings
Every other Thursday from 6pm-7pm ET (Zoom). Next one: today at 4pm. Please respect SEA members' request that this be a students only space.
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April Monthly BIPOC Community Meet and Greet (SON)
There is no formal agenda, just an opportunity to meet other BIPOC students in your cohort, build community, and to meet Faculty and Staff. This is open to SON students. We would love to see you there! Questions? Please email Shauna.
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Mental Health First Aid Certification for Faculty/Staff/Administration and Students Being Offered
To date 36 faculty/staff members have been trained in Mental Health First Aide in two courses conducted by Luella Benn and Mike Boutin. Future training dates for faculty staff trainings are forthcoming and will be scheduled between Spring & Summer then Summer & Fall Semesters.
Students: Certification sessions for Spring 2022 will be held on the following dates:
Sunday, April 3, 8:00 a.m.−2:30 p.m.
Monday, April 18 & Tuesday, April 19, 7:00−9:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 1, 8:00 a.m.−2:30 p.m.
Friday, May 6, 8:00 a.m.−2:30 p.m.
Monday, May 9 & Tuesday, May 10, 7:00−9:30 p.m.
Sessions are subject to change or cancellation based on enrollment. Sign up.
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JEDI Office and IHP JEDI Updates |
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From the Director of JEDI Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Faculty Support
A focus on PPP integration
This past month, I have been finalizing the PPP syllabus revision, content and materials and focusing on PPP integration. I am super excited about the new theme of "Health at the Intersection of Race and Immigration" and am looking forward to our first panel on this theme on June 6th from 3:30-5pm.
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this PPP revision right now, and especially to Ariel Lontoc, OTD '22 who has played a particularly critical role in supporting the current PPP syllabus revision process. If you see her around, please make sure to shower her with praise:-).
More recently, I've been talking about how PPP is basically the JEDI 101 for the IHP. It is our initial jumping off point and ongoing conversation around society, health and anti-oppression. It brings members of the IHP community into a common conversation and allows us to practice engaging in dialogue and community learning together. It is also a great opportunity for IHP community members to start to exercise their own JEDI leadership.
We have an amazing set of volunteer facilitators every semester. It is rare to have a community with so many people ready to play a role in this type of process. If you have done PPP before, becoming a facilitator can help you expand your skills and capacity for leading JEDI related conversations, and you have the chance to do it in community. We are recruiting for facilitators right now, so if you have done PPP before, please consider becoming a facilitator. Student facilitators are eligible for a $100 stipend.
I have joined different conversations across the IHP focused on what it means to build upon the foundation of the PPP Orientation and deepen the post PPP integrations at the IHP. In some cases, departments have used the JEDI growth plan, in others they hold follow up conversations focused on their particular areas, and a myriad of approaches. As you participate in PPP this year, think about what lessons or conversations do you want to bring back to your classrooms, departments, classmates or colleagues? What follow up action steps or new learning avenues did you identify for yourself, and who do you want to invite to join you in this process?
PPP, like all of our JEDI events and discussions, is the beginning of a conversation - not the end, so make sure to ask yourself, "how and where will I be continuing this conversation after PPP?" I look forward to continuing these conversations with you.
Arab Heritage Month resources for those interested in lerning more:
Warm regards,
Dr. Callie Watkins Liu
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From the Associate Director of Social Justice Education and Student Engagement
I am just here to let you all in; I offer you an invitation to see things from my perspective. I feel extremely honored to work alongside some amazing students. Being here for only 8 months thus far, I am in awe of how much student community contribution I have been so lucky to witness. This semester specifically, has brought a spark in student-led JEDI focused events, projects and community collaborations! From our JEDI fellows to new student leaders and established student organizations, below is a highlight of some of their amazing work!
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Beginning with IYKYK: A Black-Identifying Student Affinity Space , led by three SON students: Scarlett Santos, Natalie Joseph and Kanisha Friend, the group has already hosted 3 events this semester focusing on community and self care, with their fourth one coming up on April 11th at 6:30pm where they will host special guest, Chiamak Ikpeze. Chiamaka will be leading a space where students can feel safe to name the complexities, disappointments, and experiences minoritized students face when attempting to be in community among each other. She will also be discussing building students’ capacities to create meaningful relationships with each other. Register for the event here: http://bit.ly/IYKYKApril
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Angelique Campo, a first year CSD student has led the effort to re-establish the Minorities Engaged in Dialogue and Service (MEDS) student organization. Through her efforts, there have now been two MEDS events this academic year, with the most recent one having been a drop-in social event, this past March. MEDS aims to provide a space for BIPOC students at the IHP to come together to engage in dialogue and community building. Please reach out to Angelique if you a BIPOC student interested in engaging with MEDS at Acampo@mghihp.edu
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Additionally, our PT JEDI Fellow, Arianna Bayangos, has re-established the AAPI Student Affinity Space and will be hosting the group’s first event: “Turning Red” Movie Night” on April 5th from 5pm-7pm! Register for the event here: https://tinyurl.com/AAPIturningred Also, in February, in honor of Black History Month, Arianna also supported the PT program in facilitating a panel dedicated to highlighting the experiences of Black Alum and celebrating Black Joy. Arianna’s facilitation was extremely thoughtful and intentional and contributed to the success of the beautiful event.
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Our CSD JEDI Fellow, Brianna Abbas, put on a Brave Space dialogue focused on: “Our PostColonial Reality”. The space included a documentary viewing and discussion where CSD students were able to engage in dialogue around lived experiences, postcolonialism, racial capitalism and allyship. There will be a part two, to this event where students will be able to come together to further discuss allyship and build a common definition and examples of what allyship culture can look like at the IHP. Brianna has also worked very closely with the JEDI office to center support and advocacy for Muslim students at the IHP. Due to her efforts, the Muslim calendar has been updated to be more inclusive of important Muslim holidays and conversations about added prayer space during Ramadan have also been centered. She is also working closely with the CSD department around these efforts.
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Vanessa Bertrand (PA 22’), our PA JEDI Fellow, has been active in the PA JEDI Committee. This semester she supported the committee as they conducted a climate survey for students, staff and faculty that is now informing them on how to best provide support for their students as it relates to JEDI!
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Kennedi Jones (GC 23’), our Genetic Counseling JEDI fellow, put on an event in March called “Coffee with Kennedi”. Kennedi created this event with the intention of fostering relationships and community building amongst students in the Genetic Counseling program.
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SON JEDI fellows, Kana Sakai (DEN 23’) and Corliss Kanazawa (DEN 22’), alongside Dr. Callie Watkins Liu and Dr. Kimberly A. Truong, have been working on the creation of our JEDI Core Competencies for a little over a year now. I want to extend a huge congratulations to them for presenting the JEDI Core Competencies at last month’s JEDI Council meeting. The purpose of the JEDI Core Competencies: “To hold ourselves accountable to our mission and commitment to equity and anti-oppression the MGH Institute has developed a set of JEDI Core Competencies. As an organization we believe that these JEDI competencies are core to the success of our community in working to advance care in a diverse society. These competencies serve as guidance JEDI related growth for student, faculty, staff and the broader IHP community.”
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Rachel Kahn (OTD 23’), our OT fellow alongside her JEDI supervisor Dr.Callie Watkins Liu, have been working with OT to design and implement a comprehensive OT Curricular, and course level review with respect to JEDI.
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Christina Lai (PA 23’), our SHRS Dean’s office fellow, has been supporting the SHRS Anti-Oppression Task Force by working on collecting information on all of the JEDI efforts that are being made within SHRS; with the goal of supporting the AOTF in creating a shared, centralized JEDI training resource for SHRS.
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I have had the pleasure of engaging with the IHP COTAD Chapter. Members of this student organization have shown the utmost commitment to JEDI through their organization’s work. From hosting JEDI focused courageous dialogue spaces within their general body meetings to conducting a survey focused on the clinical placement experience of OT students. They have worked in collaboration with the JEDI office for brave space dialogue leadership development and other support, further highlighting their commitment to JEDI within their field and IHP community. I would like to give a special shout out to COTAD member, Hannah Schaupp, whom I have had the pleasure of engaging with around many JEDI related topics, including the importance of self-reflection in the JEDI life-long learning process. Kudos to all of COTAD for their amazing work and efforts.
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I have the utmost pleasure of working alongside Doctoral student, Savetrie Bachan, (Rehabilitation Sciences) and co-chair of Students for Racial Justice in HealthCare. She and I serve as co-chairs for the Wellness Council subcommittee for BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and FGLI student support. This semester as a subcommittee we have been able to offer two Self Care as Social Justice Workshops, support two student-led affinity spaces, a workshop on Building Intentional Relationships with your Patients (exploring Social Determinants of Health) and more to come!
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JEDI Fellows Courtney King (DEN 23’), Wendy Lee (DEN 23’) alongside Dr. Callie Watkins Liu have, designed and implemented the microaggressions workshop for SON term lecturers. Additionally, Courtney has been playing a key role in supporting SEA. She also has been working with the SON JEDI Curriculum Task Force and co-facilitate the White Privilege workshop that happened in SON as well.
In Peace,
Jammy C. Torres-Millet, MSW
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JEDI Council Meeting Summaries
At the March 2022 JEDI Council meeting, we discussed the following:
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PPP is scheduled for June 6th 3:30-5pm with a theme of examining race and immigration status. We are recruiting facilitators. Please sign up.
- Jammy sought volunteers to help with planning for the June 2022 memorial event in honor of David Green and Ramona Cooper. The planning committee, chaired by Paula, is still looking for 1 student representative and 1 faculty/staff representative.
- Kim presented and shared the 2019 and 2020 D&I survey qualitative analysis. As part of the next steps, she will present the 2019 and 2020 survey data along with her presentation to the Board of Trustees at the all faculty meeting and at Student Government. She will share any themes related to departments with the departments themselves.
- We discussed the most recent draft of the JEDI Core Competencies and agreed on the image depicting different areas. We will work on finalizing language with a focus on the health professions.
At the April 4th 2022 JEDI Council meeting, we discussed the following:
- Peter put in a plug for the MGB DE&I Summit coming up at the end of May 2022
- Callie lead us through the JEDI recognition survey and Invisible Labor survey results.
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We had a conversation about collective responsibility of JEDI work, more specifically, equity, across the IHP and referenced this article. We discussed the JEDI Leadership Award as a way to recognize faculty and staff engaged in this work.
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IHP Community Pantry - Opening!
The IHP Community Pantry is opening on April 6! There will be a food drive to raise awareness and engagement starting on April 6 and running through April 15 - all unexpired donated shelf stable food will be accepted, and each bin will have a list of 'suggested' donation items as well.
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Congratulations, HPEd!
The Health Professions Education program was reclassified as a department on April 1st! Dr. Roger Edwards is the Chair of the department and Dr. Janice Palaganas is the department's Associate Chair. Dr. Edwards is the first IHP Chair who identifies as a faculty member of color and Dr. Palaganas is the second associate chair who identifies as a faculty member of color.
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News from Accessibility Services
The first in-person Disability as Diversity events took place on campus on February 24 (Ableism 101) and March 30 (Disability and Language). Please check out IHP News to additional dates from Luella Benn!
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Do you have updates and resources to share with us?
Please email jedi@mghihp.edu to share any news, updates, JEDI-related projects with us. If there are JEDI-related resources you use and would like to share with others, please let us know. We would love to celebrate with you as well as share information about resources with the IHP community in our Newsletter!
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Learning More about Trans Day of Visibility and Transgender Health
These two resources specifically focus on health care rights and patient-centered cared for transgender people.
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JEDI Reading List
Members of the JEDI Office are currently reading some of the following books to continue our own learning:
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Janis P. Bellack Library Books
The following books are JEDI-related and available for lending at the Bellack Library:
- A Clinician’s Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender-nonconforming Clients, by Sand C. Chang and Anneliese Singh – Call# MEH LGBT CLINICIAN
- The Political Determinants of Health, by David R. Williams, Call# COM SJNM POLITICAL
- Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally, by Emily Ladau, Call# DIV CULHU DEMYST
- Clinician’s Guide to LGBTQIA+ Care: Cultural Safety and Social Justice in Primary, Sexual, and Reproductive Healthcare, edited by Ronica Mukerjee, Linda Wesp, & Randi Singer, Call# HEALTHCARE DELIVERY CLINIC
- Qualitative Research and Intercultural Understanding: Conducing Qualitative Research in Multicultural Settings, by Deborah Court, Call# RES METH QUAL INT
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Ongoing JEDI Office Resources
The JEDI Fellows created a JEDI Community D2L page. Self-enroll to get all of the latest JEDI events in one place. The JEDI team curated a Padlet with resources (password: IHPJEDI) and a few book lists on Bookshop.
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Wellness Resource Sharing |
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Special Circumstances Form
The Financial Aid Office is available to assist students who may be experiencing financial difficulties as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The Financial Aid Committee will review each application submitted to determine if a student is eligible for funding. We encourage students who have experienced financial difficulties as a result of the COVID-19 crisis to apply.
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Free Headspace Account through MGB EAP
- 1000+ hours of mindfulness and sleep content
- Mini exercises for busy schedules
- Proven to reduce stress in just 10 days
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GreenPath Financial Counseling (free)
MGH IHP is an institutional member of the Harvard University Employees Credit Union. Students, staff, and faculty (whether or not you are a member of HUECU) have access to the GreenPath Financial Wellness Program.
As part of this program, you can take advantage of free one-on-one credit, budget, debt repayment and federal student loan counseling. A caring GreenPath expert will take time to understand your financial situation and develop a personalized plan that works for you.
In addition, GreenPath offers the following self-serve resources:
Free Webinars Register today for a free financial webinar presented by GreenPath education professionals. Or watch a recorded webinar at your convenience.
Financial Education Library These articles may help you get out of debt, stay out of debt, plan for major purchases and make smart financial decisions.
GreenPath Newsletter Pathways, GreenPath’s monthly newsletter, offers personal finance advice, tips and financial news updates.
Greenpath Blog GreenPath bloggers provide timely tips and insight on financial issues that may impact you.
Learning Lab+ GreenPath knows that the key to financial wellness is financial education, and that’s why they have developed Learning Lab+, a free online education portal designed by experts.
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Money-Saving Tips
Did you know that if you are a faculty, staff, or BFT (including students), you have access to MGH Perks? It gives you access to discounts on things like real estate agents, the theater, museums, and other attractions.
The Employee Perks Intranet page is on Ask My HR!
Ask My HR is the place for all your HR and Benefit needs. It is accessible 24/7 from work, home, and mobile so you can check out the discounts you love whenever you want, wherever you want. Access Ask My HR here: www.askmyHRportal.com. Questions or comments? Email mghperks@partners.org.
If you have any money-saving tips to share with the IHP community, please send them our way at jedi@mghihp.edu!
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SPSSI and the Divisions for Social Justice (DSJ) webinar
Supporting Immigrants through Community-Based and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Monday, April 4, 2022 | 2-3 pm ET (11 am - 12 pm PT)
This webinar will discuss the collaborative, liberatory framework of the 2020 APA Interdivisional Immigration Project, as well as the collaborative advocacy strategies and practices for mental health professionals and community activists that were developed through the project for supporting undocumented immigrants. Project leaders/contributors will specifically address the community dialogues that took place in their own regions (Midwest, Northeast, and Southwest) and the needs and recommendations that were identified through this process. Participants will come away from this webinar equipped with strategies that they can apply in their own work advocating and supporting immigrant communities.Speakers:
- Germán Cadenas, PhD, Lehigh University
- Stephanie Miodus, MA, MEd, Temple University, 2020-2021 SPSSI Graduate Student Committee Policy & Applied Work Officer
- Mary Beth Morrissey, PhD, JD, MPH, Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Chair of the DSJ
- Lizette Solis-Cortez, PhD, Private Consultant/ International Psychologist
Representatives of the Divisions for Social Justice (DSJ) organized this event. The DSJ represents 22 APA divisions for which issues of social justice are of paramount importance. Each year, divisional representatives to the DSJ work in collaboration to host APA Convention sessions, author public statements (e.g., on the treatment of Haitian refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border, in solidarity with Asian Americans against AAPI hate), and coordinate other events.
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We Are Still Here: Disrupting Settler Colonialism and Going Beyond Lack Acknowledgements
featuring Pamela Villasenor, Executive Advisor to the Office of the Tribal President for the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
Monday, 4/4, 6-7:30pm
Register for Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/mtuu3fhc
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiative at Merrimack College
Unity in Diversity Days, a two-day program, is now in its fourth semester and is sponsored by the President’s Initiative on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). The program features a diverse group of scholars, artists and advocates, designed to broaden and deepen our understanding of systemic inequalities with a focus on current issues. Some of the topics we highlight this semester include diversity in education, restorative justice, the role of art in transforming communities, health disparities, and the future of gender inclusivity. Additionally, speakers will share knowledge and strategies, designed to enhance our awareness and ability to overcome inequities on campus and in the workplace by taking care of ourselves.
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Fostering Workplace Belonging in Our Virtual World
When: Apr 12, 2022 from 10:00:00 AM to 11:30:00 AM (PT)
Join HERC and LEAD for a 90-minute virtual workshop on Tuesday, April 12th, 10am - 11:30am PT to learn tangible skills, tools, and strategies to promote personal and community-wide belonging in a virtual workplace setting. This workshop will help participants build connections, foster community, and move the needle on critical mental health competencies in virtual workplace settings and in the COVID-19 world.
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The Boston Foundation Dialogues on Reparations Part 2: Exploring Reparation Models.
The second of a four-part series during which we will hear from leaders who have successfully launched reparations movements in their communities and the impact they have had. Additional event information and panelist announcement forthcoming. April 12th, 2-3:30pm. Register.
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Democratizing cancer diagnostic and profiling tools through nanotechnologies
Thursday, April 14, 2022, 12 - 1p
All are welcome!
Director, Gynecologic Oncology Program, MGH Cancer Center
Director, Cancer Program, MGH Center for Systems Biology
Faculty Co-Director for Research, MGH Center for Diversity and Inclusion
Chair, MGB Phase I Cancer Clinical Trials
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Harvard University Native American Program presents the 2022 HUNAP Annual Lecture with David Treuer
The Trouble with Tragedy: Imagining the Native American Past, Present, and Future
April 14, 2022 | 6:00 PM ET | Menschel Hall | Harvard Art Museum | Cambridge, MA
New York Times Bestselling author David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. The son of a Jewish Holocaust survivor and an Ojibwe lawyer and judge, Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation before attending Princeton where he worked with Toni Morrison and the University of Michigan where he earned his PhD in anthropology. Treuer is the author of seven books—four novels and three works of nonfiction. He is the winner of three Minnesota Book Awards, the California Book Award for Nonfiction, the Housatonic Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, LA Times, and The Washington Post, among others. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where he is a Professor of English at The University of Southern California. Latest information can be found at bit.ly/HarvardTreuer.
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The Massachusett Tribe: Life and Land
April 16th, 10-11:30am at the Reading Public Library
Discover Reading's indigenous community- past and present! Join Thomas Green, Vice President of the Massachusett Tribe, to learn about Nanepashemet’s Pawtucket band of the Massachusett, whose homeland encompasses the North of Boston area, as well as a broader history of the Massachusett people and their relationship to the land. Learn more about the Massachusett Tribe here: https://massachusetttribe.org/. This program is part of the Reclaiming Your Story grant, graciously funded by the Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA) Direct Grant Program. More information.
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Alex Adams, Harvard Indigenous Health & Well-Being Colloquium
SAVE THE DATE: April 27, 2022, 12:00 PM ET
ALEX ADAMS, MD/PhD
Join us for the next presentation in the Indigenous Health & Well-Being Colloquium series. Free and Open to the Public.
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FSOC Coffee Hour
May 6, 2022 9:30am
June 3, 2022 9:30am
MGH Institute of Health Professions faculty and staff of color are invited to attend!
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2023 Macy Faculty Scholars Application Now Open
The Macy Faculty Scholars Program is designed to identify and nurture the careers of promising educators and future leaders in medicine and nursing.
Macy Faculty Scholars receive up to $200,000 of salary support over two years to implement an educational scholarly project in their home institutions. They also participate in a program of career development activities and build meaningful connections with a national network of mentors and peers—all with the goal of preparing them for leadership roles.
The deadline for applications is August 1, 2022.
Visit the website and read the program brochure to learn more and get started on your application. SAVE THE DATE: An informational webinar for applicants will be held on June 1, 2022, at 12:00 pm ET. RSVP here.
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The MGH International Skin of Color Online Lecture Series
A virtual course with 6 hours of physician and nursing CME credit, and open to all members of our medical community.
There will be opportunities for interactive Q&A with to test your knowledge and get support from our faculty.
There's also a 20% discount for our MGH community and all affiliates. Just use the code MGB20 to register. The course is heavily discounted for our residents ($80).
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