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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

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The Syllabus

Videos
  • Perspectives: Navigating the healthcare system
  • Perspectives: Representation & cultural competencies in healthcare
  • Perspectives: Universal healthcare should be an absolute right
  • Perspectives: How do county government leaders influence health?
  • Sneak Peek: Alternatives to Conventional Medicine
  • Perspectives: Structural vulnerabilities of Texas women along cancer continuum
  • Sneak Peek: An innovative partnership to reach families
  • Perspectives: The environment around a woman is failing her
  • Perspectives: Hold the public hospital accountable to the community
Readings
  • Why are we talking about this?
  • Who will I hear from?
  • Who helped make this Teach-Out possible?
  • What are the ground rules for participation?
  • Overview: Getting lost in the healthcare system
  • Sneak Peek: How do some organizations successfully reach immigrant communities?
  • Overview: Finding safe spaces during a global pandemic
  • Fact-Check: The impact of immigration policy on all people
  • Overview: Who is more likely to die from cervical cancer?
  • Fact-Check: Access to cancer care for uninsured women
  • Overview: What does it mean to share accountability?
  • Fact-Check: Shared accountability or collective failure?
Assignments
  • Test Yourself: What does it mean to be "illegal"?
  • Test Yourself: What is the current situation?
  • Test Yourself: Immigrant vulnerabilities
Discussion prompts
  • Talk About It: Is healthcare a civil right or a human right?
  • Talk About It: How do you put a face to a number?
  • Talk About It: What does immigration have to do with health?
  • Talk About It: What would you want for your family?
  • Talk About It: Who is responsible for ensuring healthcare access?

Videos
  • Perspectives: Economic realities of healthcare for the uninsured
  • Sneak Peek: Entrepreneurialism in immigrant communities
  • Perspectives: Defining Common Sense Reform
  • Sneak Peek: Public libraries as community assets
  • Perspectives: Transportation & digital access
  • Perspectives: Finding a purpose and a function in society
  • Sneak Peek: Businesses & shopping centers as safe spaces
  • Perspective: Outreach to the community--what happens when it works?
  • Perspectives: Healthcare for children in the Non-Texas Resident Program
  • Perspectives: Equitable inclusion of bilingual gatekeepers
  • Perspectives: Stories are being silenced
  • Perspectives: The perils of indifference
  • Perspectives: It is your role to provide alternate services
  • Perspectives: Community engagement to reduce fear
  • Perspectives: I got to share my story
Readings
  • Overview: What does common sense reform look like? 
  • Overview: Innovation, not just resilience
  • Overview: The roles of a gatekeeper
  • Overview: Conversations at different levels
Assignments
  • Test Yourself: Role of local law enforcement
  • Test Yourself: Immigration--a civil or criminal matter?
  • Test Yourself: Visiting the United States
  • Test Yourself: Family-based green cards
Discussion prompts
  • Talk About It: What does common sense reform mean to you?
  • Talk About It: What makes a group or community a "safe space"?
  • Talk About It: How can you establish trust as a gatekeeper?
  • Talk About It: How will you continue this conversation?

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