Tagged With "Foster Care"
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ACEs Connection's Inclusion Tool makes sure nobody's left out
We developed ACEs Connection's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Tool — called the Inclusion Tool, for short — to ensure that ACEs initiatives across the world focus on being inclusive when forming a steering committee, recruiting leaders, providing education about ACEs science, recruiting members, or providing resources and services within their communities. The more inclusive your ACEs initiative is, the more diverse it will be, giving your initiative a real shot at achieving equity and...
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Action needed today by trauma advocates to urge Congress to address mental health and trauma in current COVID-19 legislation
The follow is a message from Dan Press, Legal Advisor to the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice ), about the need to contact Congress regarding a COVID 19 funding bill being considered this weekend. He is urging ACEs science/trauma advocates and leaders to send emails to their U.S. Senators and Representatives immediately to address the mental health and trauma implications of this pandemic. All – I hate to bother you on a Sunday, but we urgently need you to contact Congress to...
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Beyond ACES Summit: The Impact of Race, Culture, and Poverty Social Media Toolkit
The Beyond ACES Summit: The Impact of Race, Culture, and Poverty registration is LIVE! The summit theme is #MovingBeyondACES (adverse childhood experiences). This year is historically significant because it marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to Virginia. It was also a time that marked significant trauma. The summit touches on many different aspects of life and history. It was showcase the heartfelt talent of youth through dance and movement, music, theatre and...
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Biases in Medical Students Altered After Trauma Informed Care Training
Biases in medical students reviewing a case study was dramatically altered after a trauma informed care training The biases included: Belief that patient was having drug seeking behavior due to actions and request Patient could be relapsing from drugs if they are hypervigilant or withdrawn Patient with history of IV drug use may lie Patient is able to drink soft drinks all day, but why is she not making decisions about eating meals or being engaged in her care. She is making poor choices.
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Blueprint for Complex Care
The Blueprint for Complex Care , a joint project of the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, the Center for Health Care Strategies , and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , provides a strategic plan to support these multidisciplinary innovations and accelerate opportunities to improve care for individuals with complex health and social needs. In developing the Blueprint , the authors listened to experts and frontline stakeholders – including consumers, providers,...
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ACEs Science Champions Series: Byron Hall: A mentor rich with experience counsels teen parents in NC
Byron Hall mentors adolescent parents for the Community Enrichment Organization , a nonprofit in Tarboro, NC, which partners with a program that supports to keep adolescent parents in school. One of the parents he mentors is 13 years old. At the age of 17, Hall was an adolescent parent himself, growing up with a single parent in the Bronx, NY, then an African American community where drug-dealing and prostitution were common. For the counselor, helping these young men and women, who are...
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Cultivating Deliberate Resilience During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic [jamanetwork.com]
By Abby R. Rosenberg, JAMA Pediatrics, April 14, 2020 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting our health care community in unprecedented ways. As a pediatric oncologist who studies resilience in the context of illness, I started thinking about what this pandemic means for our professional resilience a few weeks ago, when the first US patient with fatal COVID-19 died in my home city of Seattle, Washington. Promoting resilience among health care workers and organizations starts with...
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Eastern Illinois University 2019 Thomas A. Bonine Suicide Prevention Conference: Risk Among Youth and Throughout the Lifes' Stages
I had the great opportunity of being the keynote speaker at this wonderful conference. Trauma Informed Care (medical model) was provided to multiple sectors from counselors, nurses, university advisors, family members, and others. As we continue to respond to the needs of children, young adults, and even geriatrics that have experienced adversities, it is important to understand that this is not only a problem in the United States but it is an international concern. With our growing and...
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Efforts to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality Complicated by COVID-19 [chcf.org]
By Xenia Shih Bion, California Health Care Foundation, April 20, 2020 Latoyha Young had a birth plan. She was going to have the baby in Sacramento with community doula Joy Dean by her side. Dean was funded by the county’s Black Child Legacy Campaign , which works to reduce the disproportional number of Black infant and child deaths in Sacramento. But in mid-March, when Young went into labor just as Governor Gavin Newsom ordered Californians to stay at home to avoid spreading the novel...
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Forsyth County Community Happenings
Forsyth County continues to have a need for change and is actively engaged in change January - Family Services hosted a two day event with Alliance for Hope conducting a study tour of the community. January - Wake Forest Baptist Health Integrative Medicine Department hosted the movie Paper Tigers January - Chaplain Dan Patrick shared her work in Buncombe county as a Resilience Coordinator to a Forsyth county interdisciplinary trauma informed care and resilience team. March - Bryan Hatcher...
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Forsyth County Trauma Informed Care Network
The Forsyth County Trauma Informed Network is taking great strides into recognizing and addressing community post Covid-19 impacts. PowerPoint attached.
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Foster Care Case Numbers Continue to Climb in NC, as Opioid Crisis Affects Families [northcarolicahealthnews.org]
By Sarah Ovaska-Few, North Carolina Health News, September 24, 2019 North Carolina could use more people like Lisa Link, as the state grapples with record numbers of children entering and staying in the already stretched foster care system. Link, an auto broker and owner of a small used-car lot in Charlotte, opted five years ago to become a foster parent after years of helping with family members’ children. She was single, in her early 40s, and wanted to help children coming out of difficult...
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How do these pediatricians do ACEs screening? Early adopters tell all.
Last week, three pediatricians — with a combined experience of 15 years integrating ACEs science into their practices — reflected on the urgency they felt several years ago that prompted them to begin screening patients for childhood adversity and resilience when there was practically no guidance at all. Along their journey , they accumulated a list of lessons learned for other pediatricians and family clinics to use. The three pediatricians participated in the ACEs Connection webinar,...
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How The Eastern Cherokee Took Control Of Their Health Care [KHN.org]
By Katja Ridderbusch, Kaiser Health News, July 22, 2019. CHEROKEE, N.C. — Light pours through large windows and glass ceilings of the Cherokee Indian Hospital onto a fireplace, a waterfall and murals. Rattlesnake Mountain, which the Cherokee elders say holds ancient healing powers, is visible from most angles. The hospital’s motto — “Ni hi tsa tse li” or “It belongs to you” — is written in Cherokee syllabary on the wall at the main entrance. “It doesn’t look like a hospital, and it doesn’t...
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Introduction to Yoga + Trauma
In order to make a connection between yoga and trauma we must first set some guidelines as to what these principles mean. We have come to understand trauma as the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one’s ability to cope or integrate the emotions involved with the experience. These adverse experiences can remain tucked away in the body’s tissues for months, years, an entire lifetime, and even be transferred through generations. In the wild, animals instinctually shake off...
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It took 3 years, 6 versions to develop ACEs screener that works for parents & providers
It’s irrefutable: Widespread research shows that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common. That’s why researchers in a recent study insist: “It behooves pediatric providers to take an active role in preventing and identifying childhood adversity in order to reduce the health consequences of toxic stress.” In other words, if you want your kids to have a good shot at a healthy life, make sure they — and you — are educated about and screened for ACEs and resilience. In a recent study —...
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Let's Talk
This year I have approximately 40 trainings scheduled. This is a wonderful challenge as I will be teaching volunteers, CNA's, front desk personnel, community members, medical students, residents, physicians, chaplains, and executive leaders. Each person walks into the training with a different culture, background, experiences, training and level of expertise, but there are a few common themes I'd like to share. 1) One theme is the mentality or belief that Trauma Informed Care (although...
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New Faces of Complex Care
https://www.chcs.org/resource/new-faces-of-the-complex-care-workforce-reflecting-and-connecting-with-patients/?utm_source=CHCS+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=5818e4f114-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_18_08_39&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbced451bf-5818e4f114-&utm_source=CHCS+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=5818e4f114-NTWF+Series+Profiles+121918&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbced451bf-5818e4f114-157167249
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New Study Reveals Annual Cost of Childhood Adversity in California Is Approximately $113 Billion [prnewswire.com]
SAN FRANCISCO , Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Center for Youth Wellness announces the release of an in-depth study on the health-related cost of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the state of California . A number of studies have investigated the cost of child maltreatment, but the current study, entitled " Adult health burden and costs in California during 2013 associated with prior adverse childhood experiences ," is the first to examine the cost associated with adult health...
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Nurturing relationships in childhood boost adult mental health, relationships
We're proud to announce major research that suggests that positive childhood experiences — such as supportive family interactions, caring relationships with friends, and connections in the community — are associated with reductions in chances of adult depression and poor mental health, and increases in the chances of having healthy relationships in adulthood. This association was true even among those with a history of adverse childhood experiences.
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One state. One year. (Partial) Cost of ACEs = $5.2 billion.
In looking at the impact of childhood trauma, you can’t get much clearer than this: In 2017, ACEs among Tennessee adults led to an estimated $5.2 billion in direct medical costs and lost productivity from employees missing work. That’s just one year, according to the new report, “ The Economic Cost of ACEs in Tennessee ," released on Feb. 1, 2019 by The Sycamore Institute in Nashville, Tenn. And to provide some perspective, $5.2 billion is one-seventh of the state’s annual budget . This $5.2...
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Resilience Week [resilienceweek.co]
By UNC TV, November 6, 2019 UNC-TV Public Media North Carolina presents the statewide broadcast premiere of the special documentary feature Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope, Tuesday, November 19, at 8 PM, as part of Resilience Week—a statewide initiative to build awareness of childhood trauma, prevention and resilience. The hour-long film focuses on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), what Dr. Robert Anda and Laura Porter of ACE Interface have termed, “the...
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Sheltering in Place: ACEs-Informed Tips for Self-Care During a Pandemic
Millions of lives have been affected in unprecedented ways by the Coronavirus (COVID-19). We are all grappling with uncertainty—our daily routines interrupted, not knowing what is to come. For those of us who have Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), these times can be particularly distressing. At the Center for Youth Wellness (CYW), we know that childhood trauma can have a significant impact on an individual’s health and well-being – both physiologically and psychologically. Since the...
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THE BUILD HEALTH CHALLENGE 2019 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
To read the announcement and all details, click HERE and see below key dates. BUILD is looking to support dynamic collaboratives driving sustainable improvements in community health. Are you ready to BUILD with us? For this new third cohort, BUILD is looking to support up to 17 innovative collaboratives across the US t hat include a community-based organization, hospital or health system, and public health department working together in dynamic ways to address upstream challenges and drive...
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Tools and how to use them is focus of second webinar on Community Resiliency Model, May 14, 2020
The second of two free Community Resiliency (CRM) webinars with Elaine Miller-Karas , key creator of the CRM, will be held Thursday, May 14, from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET, (10 a.m. CT; 9 a.m. MT, and 8 a.m. PT) and will include the practical application of tools of the model. CRM is an ACEs science-based biological model for helping individuals become emotionally regulated during natural disasters and other dysregulating times. Miller-Karas will be joined by CRM trainers from Wilmington, NC:...
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Top Tean Fears of A Physician Visit
Fear that my physician has never been trained in Trauma Informed Care Fear that I can’t speak openly Fear of my physicians discomfort when I’m seeking health care Fear that my physician doesn’t understand the psychological, neurological, biological or social impact that my history has on my current life status and health Fear that my history will not be synthesized into my plan of care Fear that I will be triggered and not supported Fear that I will be inaccurately labeled Fear that my...
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Training in a Medical Health Care System
A necessity to providing optimal care begins with training medical professionals to recognize ACEs and to understand the neurobiological, psychological and social impacts on the patients served. This allows the provider an avenue to develop an individual treatment plan based upon the patients needs and to reduce retraumatization or workplace violence. Healthcare providers also need to reflect upon their personal experiences, building resilience, minimizing triggers and addressing self care...
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Trauma Informed Care and Community Resilience
It’s 2020 and we have exciting work ahead of us, with many projects initiated in Forsyth county and prior hard work coming to fruition. Our first of three or four Trauma Informed Care and Community Resilience meetings for 2020 brought us two wonderful guest speakers to kick off the year at Wake Forest Baptist Health. We were pleased to hear how (Rachel Zimmer, N.P.) and community leader (Eric Mathis) are interconnected. These two very unique speakers have their own work and efforts but how...
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Trauma Informed Care Implementation
https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/what-is-trauma/ https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/trauma-informed-champions-from-treaters-to-healers/ https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/trauma-informed-care-in-action/ https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/resources-for-becoming-trauma-informed/ https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/policy-considerations/
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Trauma Informed Care Pediatric Nurse Training
Providing Trauma Informed Care training and knowledge within the hospital is a passion of mine. There is such a need for clinicians to look beyond an organ, acute symptom or concern. The life course of a person influences health outcomes, behavior, and compliance. The more we know the more we can impact public health.
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Trauma Informed Care Resources Guide
Greetings Forsyth Community, Please see the attached Trauma Informed Care Resources Guide
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Trauma is Messy
I will always remember the day that, as a student teacher, I watched as a student entered my second-grade room covered in blood. After quickly establishing that he was not injured, we learned that the blood was that of his brother who had been shot the night before. No parents were around that night, so this second grader became the sole caregiver of his bleeding brother. My student would never be the same. We didn’t care about grades or test scores. We just knew that this moment would...
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United States Government Action Plan on Children in Adversity
A Framework for International Assistance 2012-2017
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Unsafe conditions for children in wake of COVID-19 [northcarolinahealthnews.org]
By Sarah Ovaska, North Carolina Health News, April 28, 2020 The spread of the novel coronavirus has meant an unprecedented retreat from our everyday lives – schools unexpectedly shut down, restaurants closed, and many jobs suddenly disappeared. Children as a whole seem to be avoiding the more serious health effects of COVID-19. But that doesn’t mean they are all safe. The closure of public schools and some child care facilities means some vulnerable children could be staying in homes that...
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Wake Forest Baptist Health and Community Meet-and-Greet
Efforts for Trauma Informed Care and community resilience continue. Last evening several community leaders and WFBH providers gathered for a meet-and-greet, exchanging goals and addressing barriers to public health concerns from pervasive adversities. I can't wait to see what future relationships will grow out of these joint efforts
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Wake Forest Baptist Health Safety Coach Training
Wake Forest Baptist Health is ensuring that Trauma Informed Care training reaches their safety coaches. Safety coaches include front desk staff to physicians. This week training was provided at the Lexington, High Point, and Winston-Salem, N.C. campuses.
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Wake Forest University Medical Student Training
So excited to be able to provide trauma-informed care training to the Wake Forest Baptist Health third year medical students.
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Webinar: Cultivating Our Best Selves in Response to COVID-19 | Tuesday, March 17 at Noon PDT
How to use the skills of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) for self and others to be the calm in the storm as we face the unknown. Free Webinar Tuesday, March 17 at Noon PDT Speakers: Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC Zoom Webinar Registration Link: https://zoom.us/j/715837300 Additional ways to join are listed at the bottom of this post. About the webinar leaders: Elaine Miller-Karas is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Trauma Resource Institute and...
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Webinar Oct. 17 — Integrating ACEs science in pediatrics: Early adopters share lessons from the field
An ACEs Connection webinar co-sponsored with 4 CA In 2017, California became the first state in the country to pass a law supporting universal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the 5.3 million children in the state’s Medicaid program. As clinicians around California await the state’s announcement of what this new policy will entail, many are wondering what it takes to integrate ACEs science in a pediatric practice. Meet Drs. Deirdre Bernard-Pearl, R.J. Gillespie and...
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Welcome, Forsyth County (North Carolina) ACEs Connection!
Introducing Forsyth County (North Carolina) ACEs Connection , one of the newest communities in Southeastern U.S. region , the geographic area I support for ACEs Connection. Forsyth County ACEs Connection is a team of community partners from all sectors working towards collaborative, intentional and integrated trauma informed care in our county. The new site manager for Forsyth County ACEs Connection is is Laneita Williamson, who is an inpatient rehabilitation compliance coordinator and a...
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What is Trauma-Informed Care
https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/video-what-is-trauma-informed-care/?utm_source=CHCS+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=e3c23e5cf3-ATC+Animated+Video+01%2F23%2F2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bbced451bf-e3c23e5cf3-157167249
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When Hidden Grief Gets Triggered During COVID-19 Confinement
first published by The Meadows 4/15/20 Our sense of loss during the current COVID-19 crisis can trigger hidden emotions from when we experienced a sense of loss before. Whatever early losses you have had in your life — whether they be your own divorce, your parents, or both, or the abandonment of one parent, a childhood or parental illness or death, financial upheaval, constant moving around, or growing up with parental addiction or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) — they are likely to...
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Why Is the Pandemic Killing So Many Black Americans [podcasts.apple.com]
By The Daily, The New York Times, May 20, 2020 Some have called the pandemic “the great equalizer.” But the coronavirus is killing black Americans at staggeringly higher rates than white Americans. Today, we explore why. Guest: Linda Villarosa, a writer for The New York Times Magazine covering racial health disparities, who spoke to Nicole Charles in New Orleans, La. about the death of her husband, Cornell Charles, known as Dickey. He was 51. For more information on today’s episode, visit...
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Re: Trauma Informed Care Resources Guide
This looks like a great resource! I am always looking to share information with teachers, early educators and those interested in trauma informed care!
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12 Myths of the Science of ACEs
The two biggest myths about ACEs science are: MYTH #1 — That it’s just about the 10 ACEs in the ACE Study — the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study . It’s about sooooo much more than that. MYTH #2 — And that it’s just about ACEs…adverse childhood experiences. These two myths are intertwined. The ACE Study issued the first of its 70+ publications in 1998, and for many people it was the lightning bolt, the grand “aha” moment, the unexpected doorway into a blazing new...
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A Nurse Survivor Shares Her Story and Concerns
Yesterday was another trauma informed care training to nurses. I'm still very amazed at the biases that occur around sex, drugs, abortion, alcoholism, mental health or other challenges. As typical I received a follow up email from a survivor with their thoughts, not about the training but about the response of other humans around human behaviors and actions. The nurse survivor that emailed me felt so empowered to make a change that she has requested that I share her story with others in the...
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Re: Biases in Medical Students Altered After Trauma Informed Care Training
Hi Gail, this was a real time case study at our organization, not a research study. The students were given a case study, asked about biases, given trauma informed care, case study reviewed again, and asked what had changed since initially given the case study.
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Re: Biases in Medical Students Altered After Trauma Informed Care Training
Agree with Gail. Is it possible to add a little opening paragraph to the piece saying that it was a real-time case study at Wake Medical (?) that included XX students wherein students were given a case study and asked about biases. They then received a xx-minute training on trauma-informed care (your own curriculum or one from somewhere else?). The case was then reviewed again and the students were asked what had changed following receipt of trauma informed care training -- or something such...
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Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling With This Very Painful Week [VICE]
by Rachel Miller , VICE.com, May 28 2020, 7:25pm. Friends, I don’t need to tell you that it’s been an especially hard few weeks for Black people in the United States. Breonna Taylor . Ahmaud Arbery . Chris Cooper . George Floyd . Tear-gassing the protesters who had the gall to be upset about a racist murder . All of this, during a time when Black people are disproportionately dying from the COVID-19 pandemic . It’s exhausting. Amid all this suffering, it can be hard to believe Audre Lorde...
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Wake Forest Baptist Health Medical Student Webex Training from the Community on Covid
Greetings, Several organizations in Forsyth County came together to provide training to WFBH medical students. They shared real time information on how patients are suffering in the community, the barriers noted during Covid, actions taken and additional steps needed. But most of all students were introduced to a very different lens of the patients life. To watch the training please select the link below, scroll to the very bottom and select the last hyperlink ...