Center for Advanced Study

What’s the Community Got to Do with It? African American Community-Empowerment in Research and Intervention

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Center for Advanced Study

Location

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Date

Apr 25, 2019   7:00 pm  

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Cheryl Grills

Professor Psychology
Loyola Marymount University

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There has been much discussion about health disparities among African Americans including increased risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, asthma, and HIV. Less often do we hear about the role of the community in defining, researching and addressing these issues.

Professor Grills will present community-based research designed in collaboration with communities, community designed prevention and early intervention efforts, and a community-based self-help model to reduce racial stress and trauma (Emotional Emancipation Circles). She will argue that active participation of the community in the research and intervention process promotes a sense of ownership and shared responsibility for restoration of health and that this is critical to sustainable outcomes. To not do so runs the risk of compounding inequities already present in the community.

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Hosted by: Community Healing and Resistance Through Storytelling (C-HeARTS)

In conjunction with: Counseling Center, Counseling Psychology Program, Department of Human Development & Family Studies, Department of Kinesiology & Community Health, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, DREAAM House, First Presbyterian Church, Spurlock Museum