Coping as a Community
The UC Davis Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and its collaborating partners continue the popular Coping as a Community webinar series focusing on the important issues of structural racism, strategies and techniques for questioning and interrupting discrimination, ways to help build healthier and safer inclusive communities, and how to heal during these challenging times. This webinar series features Dr. Hendry Ton, M.D., M.S. as well as several other special guests. Recorded video of past webinars are provided below.
MOST RECENT INSTALLMENT
A Discussion on Community Healing
In this installment, Hendry Ton, M.D., discusses the historical challenges of racism in our nation, and its contribution to the ongoing nationwide protest, the need to support our black communities, and the impact of emotional trauma on health outcomes.
Moderated by Mercedes Piedra, M.S., Director of Multicultural Education, Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UC Davis Health.
Past webinars
WEBINAR SERIES
Being an Upstander for Positive Change
In this Growing as a Community webinar, Sheetal R. Shah, Ph.D., Graduate Medical Education Psychologist at UC Davis Health, discusses strategies and techniques of questioning and interrupting discrimination, the difference between a Bystander and an Upstander, and how to strive to build healthier and safer inclusive communities we all deserve. Moderated by Mercedes Piedra, M.S., Director of Multicultural Education, Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UC Davis Health.
- About Dr. Sheetal R. Shah [Start at time 3:10]
- What is a Bystander and what is an Upstander? [ Start at time 4:40]
- When you find yourself alone [Start at time 14:50]
- Techniques to question and interrupt discrimination [Start at time 16:39]
- Building healthy communities [Start at time 36:39]
WEBINAR SERIES
A Discussion on Community Healing
In this webinar session, Hendry Ton, M.D., discusses the historical challenges of racism in our nation, and its contribution to the ongoing nationwide protest, the need to support our black communities, and the impact of emotional trauma on health outcomes.
Moderated by Mercedes Piedra, M.S., Director of Multicultural Education, Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UC Davis Health.
- Mindfulness exercise [Start at time 1:06]
- Allyship for the black community [ Start at time 8:24]
- Acknowleding inequities[Start at time 19:19]
- Importance of education [Start at time 23:49]
- Defining structural racism [Start at time 40:36]
- Campus resources [Start at time 49:01]
- Hope and healing [Start at time 53:31]
