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Understanding Implicit Bias in Healthcare
Implicit biases involve associations outside conscious awareness that can lead to negative, inaccurate, or unfair evaluations of a person on the basis of identity or social status. It is important for healthcare professionals to understand implicit bias because it can influence providers’ assessments of and behavior towards their clients. Unchecked implicit biases based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, and socioeconomic status can contribute to poorer health outcomes among marginalized groups of people.
This on-demand training will distinguish between explicit and implicit bias and discuss how to identify and change these biases in yourself and your colleagues.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to:
- Explain the difference between implicit/unconscious and explicit bias.
- Identify at least five types of bias present in healthcare.
- Describe the effects of unconscious bias on everyday interactions with patients, students, colleagues, and team members.
- Describe how personal unconscious biases impact perceptions of gender, race/ethnicity, and/or cultural attributes in healthcare.
- Provide strategies to correct or eliminate personal unconscious biases in daily interactions.
Sexual Health Resources for Clients who Engage in Sex Work
This resource was created in an effort to reduce harm, facilitate safe sex practices and eradicate stigma in relation to sex and sex work. This toolkit has no political affiliation and does not serve as a political endorsement of any stance surrounding the nature of sex work.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:
- Understand the importance of knowing their status and be empowered to make healthy decisions
- Utilize harm reduction in both sexual engagement and substance usage
- Give an overview of the state of STDs, STIs and HIV in DC, along with susceptibility
- Identify the importance of PrEP and PEP usage for those who are sexually active
- Break down stigma in relation to both sex and sex work
- Describe strategies for maintaining physical, mental, and sexual health in spite of legal barriers
Effective Strategies for Affirming and Engaging Transgender Clients
The purpose of this toolkit is to use an approach to health care delivery in which organizations, programs, and providers recognize, validate, and support the identity stated or expressed by the individuals served.
Learning Objectives:
- Apply patient-centered treatment strategies to provide holistic care for all clients, including mental health and outreach services.
- Facilitate safer and affirming strategies to engage and support Transgender communities.
- Outline marketing and outreach strategies to increase engagement and retention in care in Transgender individuals.
- Utilize trauma-informed approaches in care and delivery of services.
- Outline harm reduction practices and strategies specific to the needs of the DC EMA Transgender community.
Nutrition, HIV, and Food Deserts in DC
The nutritional implications of living with HIV make having reliable access to nutritious food a necessity. Food insecurity can curtail many positive individual health outcomes, especially in immunocompromised patients. This webinar seeks to address the relationship between nutrition and HIV, local food deserts in the Washington DC area, and how you can connect clients and their families to healthy and affordable food.
Strategies to Support Positive Experiences for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals
Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming individuals (TGNC) often encounter discrimination and other adverse experiences when seeking care and preventive health services. Health providers play a critical role in supporting the health and well-being of TGNC individuals, including those who are re-entering society after incarceration.
Navigating Health Insurance in Washington, D.C.
This toolkit provides a step-by-step guide for accessing health insurance in Washington, D.C. View the PDF for more information.
Intro to LinkU
This webinar provides instruction and an introduction to LinkU, a service provided DC Health to connect people to health, food, housing, and more services.