Effective Strategies for Mentoring People of Color: Promoting Social Justice and Contributing to Community Practice

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig C. Brookins ◽  
Stephen B. Fawcett ◽  
Robert Mckinley Sellers ◽  
Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar ◽  
Rhonda Lewis-Moss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Effective Strategies

Circles of Community, Strategies of Inclusion

For the Wild ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Pike
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Community Strategies ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Animal Rights Activism

Chapter Six analyzes the efforts of activists to create community by bringing together people with different agendas and backgrounds and the resultant tensions and conflicts that come about in the process. I look closely at activists’ work to connect environmental and animal rights activism with concerns about social justice, especially with regard to people of color. Activist gatherings are imagined as free and open spaces of inclusivity and equality and yet they set up their own patterns of conformity and expectation. This chapter looks closely at how putting the “Earth first” comes in conflict with “anti-oppression” work and vice-versa, as activists try hard, drawing on empathy and compassion, to decolonize their communities and dismantle patriarchy and transphobia within their movements.

Terrorist Threats to the Environment in Iraq and Beyond

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Mohamed Al-Damkhi ◽  
Rana Abdullah Al-Fares
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Major Event ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The World

The environmental consequences of political conflict are a growing problem throughout the world. Not only nations, but a variety of terrorist and insurgent groups have shown a disturbing tendency to make use of intentional environmental destruction in the pursuit of their political agendas. Currently, scenarios of environmental terrorism in Iraq are particularly dire, due to the changing political situation in that country, the vulnerability of its petroleum infrastructure, and the precedent set by the catastrophe in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War. The international community should remain aware of the real threat of sudden, intentional environmental destruction, and should take preventative steps, while preparing for the possibility of a major event. Steps can be taken to provide for security and emergency response, while the promotion of social justice and educational initiatives can help to decrease the likelihood of such an event. Further research should be conducted to identify the most effective strategies for reducing the threat of environmental terrorism in specific regions.

scholarly journals Circle of Aunties Fostering Co-conspiratorship with Families of mmiwgt2s in the Resistance of Settler Colonial Violence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Heidenheim
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Educational Tools ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Colonial Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Racialized Gender

This paper details the co-research creation project “Circle of Aunties” outlining our processes, contributions and key learnings. The paper will begin by locating the author and the project’s approach and move to detailing our process - exploring the Circle of Aunties toolkit and the coresearch creation process. The paper will then outline the contribution this project makes to educational tools that create awareness around racialized gender-based violence in Canada and its relationship to existing literature regarding co-conspirator work. Co-conspirator/accomplice work are “alternative framework(s)” to allyship which call for “white scholars and activists to act as accomplices, working in solidarity with people of color within social justice and anti-racist movements” (Powell Kelly, 42). This paper explores our process of co-conspiratorship, bringing our project into conversation with contemporary anti-colonial efforts and calling for the prefacing of relationship in anti-colonial projects. Key Words: Co-conspiratorship, Accomplice, MMIWGT2S, Racialized Gendered Violence, Settler Colonial Violence, Settler Colonialism, Curriculum

scholarly journals Still striding toward social justice? Redirecting physical activity research in a post-COVID-19 world

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca E Lee ◽  
Rodney P Joseph ◽  
Loneke T Blackman Carr ◽  
Shaila Marie Strayhorn ◽  
Jamie M Faro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Behavioral Medicine ◽  
Well Being ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Ecologic Model ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Disproportionate Burden

Abstract The COVID-19 crisis and parallel Black Lives Matter movement have amplified longstanding systemic injustices among people of color (POC). POC have been differentially affected by COVID-19, reflecting the disproportionate burden of ongoing chronic health challenges associated with socioeconomic inequalities and unhealthy behaviors, including a lack of physical activity. Clear and well-established benefits link daily physical activity to health and well-being—physical, mental, and existential. Despite these benefits, POC face additional barriers to participation. Thus, increasing physical activity among POC requires additional considerations so that POC can receive the same opportunities to safely participate in physical activity as Americans who are White. Framed within the Ecologic Model of Physical Activity, this commentary briefly describes health disparities in COVID-19, physical activity, and chronic disease experienced by POC; outlines underlying putative mechanisms that connect these disparities; and offers potential solutions to reduce these disparities. As behavioral medicine leaders, we advocate that solutions must redirect the focus of behavioral research toward community-informed and systems solutions.

Community and academic partnerships: Moving a new generation of clinical trials in NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) into community oncology practices.

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. 2551-2551
Author(s):  
Worta J. McCaskill-Stevens ◽  
Ann M. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Cancer Care ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Oncology Research ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Community Oncology ◽  
Catchment Areas

2551 Background: NCORP is a model program that bridges academic and community oncology practices and research. Over the past decade, community cancer investigators have adopted new technology, encountered new treatment sequalae, and faced rising cost of care with its financial toxicity imposed upon individuals seeking care. Opportunities are abundant for community investigators to assess feasibility and uptake of research advances into community practice settings, yet these opportunities are met with the challenges of dynamic changes in types of organizations delivering cancer care and diversity of populations within their catchment areas. Little information is shared about how and to what extent the health environment influences this partnership and the implementation of a broad cancer research portfolio. Methods: This abstract reports on the continued interest and participation of community oncologists in research which is demonstrated by 987 practices with over 4000 investigators in NCORP. Since 2014, over 30,000 individuals enrolled in symptom management, screening, surveillance, quality of life, and treatment trials. An additional 4500 patients and clinicians have enrolled in care delivery studies. Results: NCORP has been central in evaluating the most effective strategies for investigators to effectively communicate to patients the science of genomically-driven trials. It has also provided ways of bringing the pediatric and AYA patients access to the most up-to-date treatment strategies and new therapies in their community. This creates the least disruption on family structure/dynamics, diminished traveling requirements/costs, and reduced the financial burden. NCORP promotes involvement of treating oncologists in research activities. This also improves care for patients not enrolled in clinical trials. Therefore, NCORP serves as a laboratory to determine the most effective strategies for co-management of cancer patients and survivors. Conclusions: Several questions however remain to be addressed using this clinical trial model. These include: how to continue to reduce disparities in cancer care and clinical trial participation; and, what are the best strategies for fostering implementation of cancer care models in community practice.

Building the Neighborly Community in the Age of Trump

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-113
Author(s):  
Gavin Luter ◽  
Henry L. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Systems Change ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
New Vision

With no moral compass, the current higher education civic engagement movement has wreaked havoc on inner city communities, especially for low-income people and people of color. This chapter explains why this happened, who it benefits, and why it largely continues unquestioned. A bold new vision is charted for higher education's civic engagement movement that is built upon principles of systems change and a fundamentally reimagined version of cities founded on social justice. Theoretical and practical solutions are also discussed.

State-Sanctioned Violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Melvin Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
State Violence ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Historical Origins

This chapter reintroduces intersectionality and introduces an intracategorical approach, a lens many readers may be unfamiliar with but one enhancing the saliency of intersectionality and state-sanctioned violence with a specific focus on cities and people of color. When youth are introduced, the unfairness of these forces takes on greater importance. This chapter’s central goal is not to delve into great detail about these concepts, including historical origins and evolution, which are deeply grounded in feminist theory. The goal is to examine intersectionality (including intracategorical intersectionality) and its relationship to state-sponsored violence. This enriches our understanding of a state violence paradigm and further grounds it conceptually and philosophically within our profession’s social justice mission and values.

scholarly journals Will someone knock on my door? COVID-19 and social work education

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 116-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bharati Sethi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Belonging ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Work Education

Guided by a person-in-environment framework and aspirations to advance social justice, the social work profession is concerned with intervening at the individual and society level. In this essay, the author reflects on individualism-collectivism, loneliness, and community belonging in the context of her lived experiences and the COVID-19 outbreak. She maintains that the micro-macro fragmentation is problematic to social work's quest for social justice. Social work must examine the place of ‘community practice' in its professional curriculum to equip students with tools to fully comprehend the changing and increasingly complex social workers' role.

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