A Perspective: The human element of weight-based discrimination in medicine
Touro University Nutrition Club
SOCIAL JUSTICE RESOURCE CENTER :
Community & Cultural Lists
Equity must come first, in order for the presence and increase of Diversity and Inclusion to occur.
This comes through intentional projects that create commitments to Equity for lasting progress. These Social Justice Resource Lists were compiled through the collaboration of the Equity Officer and the passionate work of the TUC Library staff. The intention to shift individual and public behaviors and practice to ongoing reflection and advocacy initiatives.
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The Social Justice RESOURCE Lists are within the name -
They are a resource for a baseline to the learner. A continual learning journey for the individual and the institution to reflect and take action. A shared accountability that is centered around cultural humility, shifting the power to those that historically and systemically have been marginalized and understanding that listening comes before allyship.
These lists expand on the experiences of these intersectional communities -through their lived history, resiliency and coalition building, the journey that continues to impact their social determinants of health and system accounted needs for wellness, significance of celebrations and achievements, current roots in traditions and culture, and most of all a space to nurture their intersectionality, authenticity, mobility, and power of their narrative.
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The Social Justice Resource Center provides the hub for these brave spaces to occur in ways to further equitable resources. Whether that is through community gatherings for capacity building, university-wide facilitated trainings, spaces to revitalize and healing circles, intersectional strategy with mentorship meetings. As we make space for those where space was denied, the resolution is simple, acceptance in the ways for equity are ever growing.
The Center creates opportunities to identify the issues and connect them back to interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences. The time and space to provide the "why does it matter" context on the social topics of today AND give the purpose to not have these statements and acknowledgements become trends. Instead to embody retention - to build upon them, to continue the dialogue, and stay informed on what is culturally and community advised.
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The Social Justice Center through the established physical space on campus and continued invested Social Justice Resource Lists -bring these hard facts to the forefront of curriculum integration, facilitated training, and up to date informants of best practices.
These Social Justice landmarks, were meant to meet the need of many marginalized students by ensuring an equal commitment and equitable baseline for these groups. They ensure that success pathways will be more successful because of the forward supporting infrastructure from community members. These components in this reinvestment of power, allow Touro University California to be capable to the commitment to keep meeting the need of what's next- whether that's in health, prospective students, or civic engagement.
The Social Justice Resource Center and Social Justice Resource Lists, working in alignment with the vision, link the present to the future. To connect further interest, empathy, and progress to future hubs, platforms, and leaders.
