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Reflection Leading to Action on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Virginia GWEP

Last year’s Black Lives Matter protests inspired the Virginia Geriatric Education Center (VGEC) GWEP’s plenary to engage in reflection and discussion on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our work together. During each bi-monthly meeting, we dedicate time to generate ideas to improve our prog...

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Autores principales: Alexander, Chuck, Slattum, Patricia, Williams, Ishan, Waters, Leland
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969306/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.341
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description Last year’s Black Lives Matter protests inspired the Virginia Geriatric Education Center (VGEC) GWEP’s plenary to engage in reflection and discussion on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our work together. During each bi-monthly meeting, we dedicate time to generate ideas to improve our programming, how we work together, and how we partner and recruit for our programs. Champions for DEI on our plenary led an effort to develop a DEI newsletter clarifying DEI concepts and introducing resources thematically related to the monthly VGEC faculty development program curriculum. By incorporating these resources into our monthly curriculum, facilitators have a new access point to incorporate content on health equity and policy into our curriculum. The intentional focus on DEI is opening the door to deeper reflection and conversation with a goal of improving all our programming, cultivating a new social awareness, and bringing new voices and perspectives to the table.
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spelling pubmed-89693062022-04-01 Reflection Leading to Action on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Virginia GWEP Alexander, Chuck Slattum, Patricia Williams, Ishan Waters, Leland Innov Aging Abstracts Last year’s Black Lives Matter protests inspired the Virginia Geriatric Education Center (VGEC) GWEP’s plenary to engage in reflection and discussion on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in our work together. During each bi-monthly meeting, we dedicate time to generate ideas to improve our programming, how we work together, and how we partner and recruit for our programs. Champions for DEI on our plenary led an effort to develop a DEI newsletter clarifying DEI concepts and introducing resources thematically related to the monthly VGEC faculty development program curriculum. By incorporating these resources into our monthly curriculum, facilitators have a new access point to incorporate content on health equity and policy into our curriculum. The intentional focus on DEI is opening the door to deeper reflection and conversation with a goal of improving all our programming, cultivating a new social awareness, and bringing new voices and perspectives to the table. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8969306/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.341 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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