Advancing health equity from the ground up
Advancing health equity from the ground up
Advancing health equity from the ground up
LIGHT
Leaders in Grassroots Health Transformation
LIGHT provides participants with an intersectional groundwork for becoming grassroots health equity advocates and leaders. Program graduates can apply for a Neighbors to Leaders Fellowship—mini-grants with continued mentorship—to support their own community resilience projects or initiatives. The goal of the program is for participants to:
- understand how the U.S. healthcare system and its associated industries came to be;
- learn strategies for achieving quality healthcare for all;
- explore the intersections of housing, climate, and health;
- develop their skills in framing the issue, public speaking, writing, and community organizing;
- understand the role of different non-profit and political bodies in local healthcare advocacy work;
identify their interests, strengths, and passions as grassroots health justice leaders.
If you are in need of healthcare, click here for more information about our free appointments with certified application counselors.
Next LIGHT Cohort
WHEN:
Tuesdays, 6–9 pm
May 7 – July 9, 2024
WHERE:
Online
COST:
There is no fee to participate.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
- A dinner stipend will be provided for online participants.
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Open to adults and teens (14+). Teens can earn community service hours.
- Youth program available for kids ages 6-13 (must have a parent/guardian in LIGHT).
- Free interpretation in Spanish, Haitian Creole, and American Sign Language available upon request.
- Accessibility accommodations available upon request.
CONTACT:
Ọmọlará Williams McCallister, [email protected]
LIGHT Learning Outcomes
"If we don’t get committed to addressing the factors that affect your health—the socioeconomic factors, the policies, the environment, the ways you get clinical care—if we don’t address those things and meet people where they need, we’re not going to reduce these disparities.
When we use an equity lens and give people what they need to achieve that health outcome that we talk about, we benefit our entire community."
"If we don’t get committed to addressing the factors that affect your health—the socioeconomic factors, the policies, the environment, the ways you get clinical care—if we don’t address those things and meet people where they need, we’re not going to reduce these disparities. When we use an equity lens and give people what they need to achieve that health outcome that we talk about, we benefit our entire community."
- Dr. Cheryl Holder
Physician, FIU Professor, Co-Chair of Florida Clinicians for Climate Action
“In a post-Civil Rights era, racism is also defined as what happens when institutions and structures operate in a race-neutral manner that nevertheless perpetuates historical racial disadvantage and produce new forms of racial disenfranchisement.
The failure to pass Medicaid expansion is a demonstration of structural racism at its finest. There is no excuse for denying vulnerable people health care, which many countries understand as a basic human right.”
“In a post-Civil Rights era, racism is also defined as what happens when institutions and structures operate in a race-neutral manner that nevertheless perpetuates historical racial disadvantage and produce new forms of racial disenfranchisement. The failure to pass Medicaid expansion is a demonstration of structural racism at its finest. There is no excuse for denying vulnerable people health care, which many countries understand as a basic human right.”
Khiara M. Bridges, Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law
