Let's talk about it: A Health and Immigration Teach Out
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The Syllabus
Videos
- Perspectives: Navigating the healthcare system
- Perspectives: Representation & cultural competencies in healthcare
- Perspectives: Universal healthcare should be an absolute right
- Perspectives: How do county government leaders influence health?
- Sneak Peek: Alternatives to Conventional Medicine
- Perspectives: Structural vulnerabilities of Texas women along cancer continuum
- Sneak Peek: An innovative partnership to reach families
- Perspectives: The environment around a woman is failing her
- Perspectives: Hold the public hospital accountable to the community
Readings
- Why are we talking about this?
- Who will I hear from?
- Who helped make this Teach-Out possible?
- What are the ground rules for participation?
- Overview: Getting lost in the healthcare system
- Sneak Peek: How do some organizations successfully reach immigrant communities?
- Overview: Finding safe spaces during a global pandemic
- Fact-Check: The impact of immigration policy on all people
- Overview: Who is more likely to die from cervical cancer?
- Fact-Check: Access to cancer care for uninsured women
- Overview: What does it mean to share accountability?
- Fact-Check: Shared accountability or collective failure?
Assignments
- Test Yourself: What does it mean to be "illegal"?
- Test Yourself: What is the current situation?
- Test Yourself: Immigrant vulnerabilities
Discussion prompts
- Talk About It: Is healthcare a civil right or a human right?
- Talk About It: How do you put a face to a number?
- Talk About It: What does immigration have to do with health?
- Talk About It: What would you want for your family?
- Talk About It: Who is responsible for ensuring healthcare access?
Videos
- Perspectives: Economic realities of healthcare for the uninsured
- Sneak Peek: Entrepreneurialism in immigrant communities
- Perspectives: Defining Common Sense Reform
- Sneak Peek: Public libraries as community assets
- Perspectives: Transportation & digital access
- Perspectives: Finding a purpose and a function in society
- Sneak Peek: Businesses & shopping centers as safe spaces
- Perspective: Outreach to the community--what happens when it works?
- Perspectives: Healthcare for children in the Non-Texas Resident Program
- Perspectives: Equitable inclusion of bilingual gatekeepers
- Perspectives: Stories are being silenced
- Perspectives: The perils of indifference
- Perspectives: It is your role to provide alternate services
- Perspectives: Community engagement to reduce fear
- Perspectives: I got to share my story
Readings
- Overview: What does common sense reform look like?
- Overview: Innovation, not just resilience
- Overview: The roles of a gatekeeper
- Overview: Conversations at different levels
Assignments
- Test Yourself: Role of local law enforcement
- Test Yourself: Immigration--a civil or criminal matter?
- Test Yourself: Visiting the United States
- Test Yourself: Family-based green cards
Discussion prompts
- Talk About It: What does common sense reform mean to you?
- Talk About It: What makes a group or community a "safe space"?
- Talk About It: How can you establish trust as a gatekeeper?
- Talk About It: How will you continue this conversation?
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