DEI tools
Respect is customary within academia and health care. It starts with introductions and is applied with cultural humility and community competency on a consistent basis of learning and reflection to build trust and ensure wellness.
Collective responsibility in the obstruction of injustice through the intentional cultivation of a culture of inclusion beyond compositional diversity.
To unite students, faculty and staff in collaborative efforts to promote social justice by working to eliminate health and educational disparities.
Students are the heart of this institution. To ensure an affirming learning environment, the Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion is dedicated to creating brave spaces and initiatives that support the well being of our students within and beyond their coursework. This also includes responding to incidences of bias that involve our community. Please feel free to engage the director with any ideas, suggestions or concerns.
Diversity, Equity, and inclusion create new possibilities and outcomes through intentional and sustainable efforts. This Office is established campus-wide to create infrastructure for the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion. This office is interconnected with all of the colleges in a way that meets college-specific and university-wide needs. This enhances our intellectual environment with insight, perspective and initiatives that define who we are and what we do.
Anti-Bias
Anti-Racist
SafeZone Ally
Cultural Humility
Intersectionality
Safe Spaces
Restorative Justice
Health Promotion
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion create new possibilities and outcomes through intentional and sustainable efforts. This enhances our intellectual environment with insight, perspective and initiatives that define who we are and what we do.
Anika Lee
MPH
alee38@touro.edu
690 Walnut
Dept: Student Services
O: 707-638-5325
M: 707-974-1734
DEI ideas, needs concerns from students, faculty, or staff please contact the Officers in confidential or anonymous form. We are Title IX certified and promote safe spaces.
Please contact our Office to be a part of our TUC DEI Directory.
A Safe Zone network of faculty, staff and students with Safe Zone training that advances inclusion on campus. This network not only advances safe spaces, practices, and education to promote a campus-wide platform around gender identity and sexual orientation. Once completed with the certificate contact our Office for a Safe Zone ally sticker.
We all have bias. However, some bias is shaped by structures of domination that impact the lives of marginalized groups in particular. Consider taking an implicit bias test
As the state heads into its third year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This training will help mitigate the high levels of stress and burnout challenge our healthcare system.
With this grant, Touro University California is excited to develop intervention strategies to increase resiliency, enhance self-care efforts, foster a culture of community wellness, and create safe and responsive spaces for healthcare workers to learn, work, and thrive.
Micro-credentialing will be available to TUC students in Fall 2023
Respect is customary within academia and health care. It starts with introductions and is applied with cultural humility and community competency on a consistent basis of learning and reflection to build trust and ensure wellness.
Pronouns are the way that we refer to people in place of their name or in third person (referring to that person while talking to someone else). When you use someone's correct pronouns, it serves to create an inclusive environment where you demonstrate that you care for and respect them.
If you don't know what pronouns someone uses, you can do one of three things:
Actively choosing to not use the pronouns someone has shared that they go by is harassment and implies that intersex, transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people do not or should not exist.
The purpose of this guide is to provide resources to help develop an understanding of systemic racism, the condition of white privilege that perpetuates oppression, and racial justice. The history and legacy of racism continue to impact ways of thinking and being that calls those who promote racial justice to learn and act. Please use this guide with the care and love that was put into it.
https://msw.usc.edu/mswusc-blog/diversity-workshop-guide-to-discussing-identity-power-and-privilege/
All gender-neutral bathrooms have signage that is ADA compliant and are provided with a free pad dispensary and disposal bin.
Please reach out to support services as you need and share the resources as appropriate.
o Personal counseling is available to you free of charge through the TUC Counseling Services. Please call counseling services at 707-638-5292. By calling this number you can schedule an appointment, leave a voicemail and receive a call back, or you may speak by phone with an off-site counselor 24-7 by choosing option 3.
o TUC's Employee Assistance Program provides employees with a 24-hour emergency hotline at 866.799.2728 or visit: www.HealthAdvocate.com/touro. Download the "Health Advocate" app today for access to all resources in real time.
o The Campus CARE Team can be found at: http://studentservices.tu.edu/careteam/index.html
o Kaiser Wellness Tools: https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/mental-health/tools-resources?wt.tsrc=email_COVID
We believe in creating more opportunities for current and prospective TUC students. We believe that deep cultural legacy and generational resiliency needs to be honored. We believe that change needs to be created by cultural humility with unbiased care. To construct and expand platforms for systemically marginalized voices in all spaces is not only important but critical for healing and change.
Our office is open to administer training and educational sessions to help groups within TUC embrace and understand differing perspectives for an inclusive environment.
Our office is open to developing new programs and practices that effectively increase diversity, equity, and inclusion while actively providing support and collaboration to various groups within TUC. We implore you to check out our many student clubs to see what shared space you find in TUC communities. We also offer student support services through counseling and the student health center.
We always want to better understand how to support vulnerable populations through the first door of their health professional career, right here at TUC. We look forward to being in the first hand coordination to corporate, involving bigger agencies in boosting support for graduate students. To create diverse, equitable, and inclusive legacies of staff, faculty, and students from Touro University California to health care.
Touro University California Workforce Resiliency Program.
This funding will help Touro support and train health care and public safety workers who have been on the front lines of the pandemic. By investing in workforce training programs, we can prepare workers for careers in new and high-demand fields while ensuring that we're addressing pandemic burnout. This grant will help Touro support our health care and public safety workers and ensure that they have a safe and secure space to learn how to protect our communities.
Pacific Coast Region I of Iheart
CCUIH - Field Study Site
Equity work to increase the number of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian physicians and health care workers. Touro University California is proudly a member of the Pacific Coast Region I of Iheart. Also through the MPH program, California Consortium for Urban Indian Health at our state capital and San Francisco site is now a field study site.
Please contact Equity Officer Anika Lee for more AI/AN/NH partnership inquiries alee38@touro.edu.
Max Vax
Touro Cares Mobile vaccination program hosts 100th vaccine clinic. Touro Cares Mobile Vaccination Program is run by the Touro University California and hosted at VCUSD school sites, as well as other community events and locations. As of January, there have been: 33 clinics at VCUSD schools; 2476 total vaccines administered at VCUSD schools; 459 vaccines for 5-11 years old, and 947 vaccines for 12-17 years old.
for students and university leaders this sentiment rings true. That's because out of the many student support strategies that higher education institutions employ, only large-scale peer mentorship has proven effective in all of the following ways
(retention, adaptation, mental wellness, and career trajectory)
TUC's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has created the first TUC DEI Directory. Our goal is to make these community and cultural months more personal to Touro California's community members and to apply the TUC vision, "inspirational teaching and scholarship, transformative leadership, exemplary service." Our hope is to increase inclusion, support, and celebration of representation and culture of students and faculty members at TUC. These vignettes emphasize the importance of the Mentor and Mentee connection in graduate health school and how to capacity build for a coalition of Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive health professionals. The commitment of the DEI directory is for current and prospective students to increase student and faculty engagement with a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive emphasis. This is in hopes to increase these connections and have students become Mentors themselves. If you are interested in using the TUC DEI Directory as a resource or as an outreach you can access it via our Office page survey on TUConnect or please contact our office directly.
Touro University California's commitment to social justice is also a commitment to amplifying a collective voice of concern in addressing systemic racism. In that concern, we recognize that COVID-19, along with police violence disproportionately impacts the lives and health of Black and LatinX people. The statements found in the link below reflect our solidarity in this era of racial injustice.
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The purpose of this guide is to provide resources to help develop an understanding of systemic racism, the condition of white privilege that perpetuates oppression, and racial justice. The history and legacy of racism continue to impact ways of thinking and being that calls those who promote racial justice to learn and act. Please use this guide with the care and love that was put into it.
On behalf of the Black Interprofessional Student Organization BISO at TUCA, we encourage you to recognize Black History Month this February through thoughtful reflection, purposeful action, and sincere growth. Let us reflect together on how Touro University California's core values light our footsteps as we walk on a more direct path toward our daily commitment to social justice, intellectual pursuit, and service to humanity.
Black History Month has been an important celebration of the achievements, legacy, and resilience of African Americans in this nation. During this month we reflect and celebrate the rich history of Black leaders, heroes, and survivors. We fully understand that one month is not enough to recognize the numerous contributions made by African Americans in the United States. We dare to state that the celebration should be daily through the active removal of racism and the social, economic, and healthcare disparities that still exist.
The need to celebrate and recognize the importance of our journey so far is more necessary than ever, in that we dare not repeat the mistakes of the past.
As highlighted during the BLM protests in the summer of 2020, we have much more work to be done in reaching Dr. Martin Luther King's dream.
While Black people make up 13% of the United States' population, they represent only 5% of all physicians and continue to remain underrepresented in medical schools across the nation. This striking disparity contributes to the major gaps in health outcomes including morbidity and mortality that are seen in communities of color, which has been further exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic (Black Men in White Coats, 2018). The disparity in healthcare is evident and can be addressed partially by increasing the number of black healthcare professionals to better represent the communities they serve.
"For history to not repeat itself", we want to take a disruptive path followed by action! The time is now to be active! Moving forward from a generation of enraged to engaged. Engaged in our personal growth, our communities, our nation. As a university we are continuing to create opportunities for brave spaces, diverse populations and serve as a pipeline to secure representative students in our communities. To nurture and develop healthcare educators and future health professionals that have lived experiences in TUC that live, feel, and look like who TUC will serve.
As a part of the celebration this month we will be featuring TUC signature Mentors and Mentees echoing the theme of "Telling Our Own Stories." Which reflects the African American historical legacy of joining together to share the stories of our ancestors, elders, family members, and our community; and how these stories motivate and empower us in our continued fight for equity and social justice. Mentorships are being showcased as faculty mentors and student mentees, emphasizing how that relationship can help reduce disparities in healthcare and the university. This unique relationship reduces experiences like imposter syndrome and increases the feeling of belonging, validation, and possibility. And for TUC to use our communities as a pipeline to secure representative students in our programs thus TUC's communities.
As said by President Barrack Obama, "Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don't settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world."
Join us in the recognition and celebration of Black History Month!
- Statement from student leaders in BISO and SGA Maryam Omer and Eseosa Aigbuza in collaboration with Equity Officer Anika Lee, and Director of Inclusion Dr. Rolly Kali-Rai.
- The Black Interprofessional Student Organization, a TUC student organization committed to serving the community. One of the main events is providing free blood pressure and blood glucose screenings at Food Faith Fridays (FFF). Food Faith Fridays is a non-profit organization that hands outs free food to the underserved population in Vallejo. BISO has built a relationship with FFF to serve the community. BISO has partnered with Solano Dream to provide blood pressure and blood glucose screenings to the homeless population. The Solano Dream project offers shelter and a balanced meal to homeless people in Solano County. Some programs that BISO hosted last school year were: Food Faith Fridays, Black State of the Union, MLK Day Clean Up Service, Empower Our Black Women conference, and a "De-Stress and Help Yo'self" event.
- BISO link: https://tuc.campusgroups.com/biso/home/
At the university we recognize the diversity of customs, culture, and celebrations of our community on and off campus.
We understand that as a global community on campus, respect and compassion for each other and our individual, and shared experiences, is important.
To all students, faculty, and staff we wish you a healthy, happy, and prosperous Lunar New Year.
We write this to express our solidarity to you our students, staff, and faculty.
Together, today we face a world of fear, anxiety, and violence.
It does seem overwhelming and at times that we are all alone.
We are not alone, as a community both local and global, we are together.
It is okay to feel numb, tired, sad, angry, however you feel.
It is how you feel at the moment.
I ask that you do not lose hope or allow yourself to feel less than who you are.
You are an amazing and vital member of our community, just the way you are.
We are in this together, seek to make a difference in whatever way you can.
We can together, we are together, as one entity that celebrates, nurtures, and needs you, just the way you are.
You matter and we care