Access to Healthcare: A Holistic Social Justice Approach
May. 5, 2008 by Lisa Currie
Two great workshops, both being held on Thursday, May 8…
Working Models of Community-Based Healthcare
12noon @ Multi-purpose Room
Basement of Usdan
Join alternative health practitioners Jacoby Ballard and Green Wayland Llewellin from Brooklyn, NY in an open conversation about providing just, loving, and nourishing healthcare through a community based clinic. Green and Jacoby will talk about their work to open a worker-owned cooperative health clinic in Brooklyn, Taproot Community Health Clinic, rooted in grassroots organizing and health justice. They’ll also discuss the differences between their work as alternative practitioners and that of western allopathic medicine.
Bring your lunch and join the discussion!
Workshop: Social Justice and Health
3:00pm @ Multi-purpose Room
Basement of Usdan
This is an interactive workshop about how to put the values of social justice into practice within a framework of health. What is quality care and how can communities reclaim healthcare? How do we address the painful history that many communities have with the medical establishment while providing quality care? How can we redefine healthcare beyond surgeries and pharmaceuticals in a way that is empowering on a daily level? Using the tools and pedagogy of Popular Education, we will address our own experiences with healthcare and envision holistic, accessible, and anti-oppressive models to create healthier communities.