Movement & Organizing Library
Birthed out of the For Us All campaign, the Movement & Organizing Library is a living collection of research, tools, stories, and frameworks for health professional students and leaders who are organizing for justice, dignity, and care.
Whether you are designing a course, leading a campaign, or just looking for language to name what you are experiencing, this library is here to support you. We encourage you to take what you need and share what you learn.
Jennifer J. García, Cheryl Grills, Sandra Villanueva, Karren A. Lane, Curtiss Takada-Rooks, Christopher D. Hill
2020
- Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power
- Skills: Organizing, Policy Advocacy
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Researchers
This paper describes landscape analysis, a participatory research method for public health scholars interested in identifying and elucidating trends, opportunities, and gaps in the field. We used this method to understand the environmental and social conditions of primarily under-resourced communities of color, and identify key organizing strategies and practices used by community organizers to fight for policy and systems change around childhood health equity issues.
Van Gosse
2005
- Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power
- Skills: Healing / Reflection / Collective Care, Network Building, Organizing, Political Education
- Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The chapter titled “Young Lords Party” by Van Gosse describes the party’s 13 point program and platform for health justice.
Autumn Brown and Maryse Mitchell-Brody
2014
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Centering Community Power, Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups, Repairing Harm with Community Redress, Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Healing / Reflection / Collective Care, Organizing
- Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Practice Spaces are all-gender, all- bodied, inclusive and accessible spaces for practicing and receiving healing that are built in partnership with social justice movement work and sites of political action.
Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide draws from practice space organizers’ experiences running Healing Justice Practice Spaces at the United States Social Forum in 2010, the Allied Media Conference (AMC), Occupy encampments, the 2012 Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity (BOLD) gathering, and other movement spaces.
Sonal Batra, MD, MST, FACEP and Rick Garcia, PhD, RN, FAADN
2025
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development, Policy Advocacy
- Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This paper provides insights into the Social Mission Metrics (SMM) self-assessment survey, which is being administered to associate degree nursing program leaders across the country. This program aims to establish a baseline for social mission performance and identify opportunities for improvement. Understand how this survey can help nursing programs advance their commitment to health equity and social justice and learn about the key findings and recommendations for driving positive change.
Leading Change Network
2018
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Centering Community Power, Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups, Repairing Harm with Community Redress, Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Network Building, Organizing
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Organizing requires building our community’s leadership and keeping them engaged throughout the campaign and after. Learn about different ways organizations have brought constituencies together as well as retained and sustained organizers as they scale or transition into new campaigns.
Tyrone Johnson
2017
- Advocacy Pillars: Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This Invited Commentary explores disparities in academic medicine, known as the minority tax, through the careers of 2 men in senior positions, who are underrepresented minorities in medicine (URMMs), with the goal of sharing real-world experiences that other URMM faculty can use to their benefit. The authors use their lived experiences to document the realities of various aspects of the minority tax (i.e., isolation, mentorship, diversity efforts, and clinical assignments) and introduce a new aspect of the minority tax that has affected both of their inner decision-making processes and personal ambitions: the gratitude tax.
Tiffany D Joseph and Laura E Hirshfield
2010
- Advocacy Pillars: Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This paper explores how cultural taxation affects faculty of colour in a research university. Additionally, the expands the analysis of cultural taxation to include issues of legitimacy that challenge non-white faculty’s sense of ‘belonging’ within their respective departments.
Naomi Rogers
2001
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education, Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development, Network Building, Organizing
- Audience: Students/Trainees
This article traces the journey of the Student Health Organizations (SHO), a group of health sciences students from 1965–1970 that challenged the power of the American Medical Association and the inequities of U.S. health care.
Victor Kpandemoi Abu
2024
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Nursing education programs do not often prepare students for social justice nursing practice. Nursing students and educators call for a toolkit on social justice nursing practice and propose the Social Justice Action toolkit. The toolkit supports critical thinking, critical pedagogy and servant leadership.
Charles Terrel, James Beaudreau
2003
- Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
In 1991, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) launched a national campaign to enroll 3,000 underrepresented minority students in medical school by the year 2000. This article describes successes, lessons learned, and next steps after the 3000 by 2000 campaign.
Champion Spotlight
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