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.
Shelia Price et al.
2008
- Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that a workshop on diversity in admissions can modify the perceptions of individuals involved in the student recruitment and admissions processes and lead to increased matriculation of underrepresented minority students. Emerging from the workshop were key concepts and action steps for promoting a holistic review of dental applicants. Results since implementing the workshop recommendations have been positive, with underrepresented minority dental student acceptances increasing sixfold.
Interrupting Criminalization, Dragonfly Partners
- Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power, Repairing Harm with Community Redress
- Skills: Healing / Reflection / Collective Care, Network Building, Organizing
- Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations
“This framework and the associated toolkit is intended to support individuals’ efforts to
navigate conflict with those they presume to have a shared purpose. The framework and tools emerge from the decades of experience of the members of Interrupting Criminalization, Dragonfly Partners, and organizers and activists from
around the country.”
Kimá Taylor et al.
2022
- Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Despite long-standing efforts to increase health care workforce diversity and evidence that a representative health care workforce improves health care access and outcomes, limited progress has been made to increase the number of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx medical and nursing professionals and to retain them in the workforce. Drawing from interviews and focus groups with dozens of students, professionals, and field leaders, this study examines the persistent barriers and challenges facing aspiring doctors and nurses from systemically and structurally excluded groups and proposes recommended actions that federal and state policymakers, leaders at higher education and health system institutions, and philanthropies can take to support these students and professionals, particularly through the expanded and improved use of pathway programs.
Darien Weatherspoon, Eleanor Fleming
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Ensuring that health equity is prioritized and taught consistently across the training curriculum can be an active step dental education takes to support HE-conscious oral healthcare providers. To ensure that HE is prioritized and taught consistently throughout all years of the dental and dental hygiene curricula at a single dental school, the authors of this article developed an iterative process for elevating and aligning HE principles.
Jack Ringhand
2024
- Advocacy Pillars: Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Students/Trainees
Arizona faces major health workforce shortages driven by maldistribution and a lack of diversity that does not reflect the state’s population, contributing to inequities in access and health outcomes. In response, the Arizona Department of Health Services and the Arizona Center for Rural Health are working to build a more diverse workforce and reduce barriers for underserved students. This report summarizes a literature review of health professions pathway programs designed to support underrepresented and rural students entering healthcare careers.
Brian Park et al.
2019
- Advocacy Pillars: Centering Community Power
- Skills: Organizing
- Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
“This Perspective proposes four strategies to start developing academic–community health systems. These strategies will support AHCs to embed across each arm of the tripartite mission a focus on partnering with communities to advance health equity together.”
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.”
RK, JB, YK, DG
2025
- Advocacy Pillars: Anti-Racist and Justice-Oriented Health Education
- Skills: Curriculum Development, Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
Recent shifts in public policy and legislation have aimed to dismantle progress toward racial equity in the United States, especially within the realm of education. Dental education institutions are responsible for cultivating the oral healthcare workforce of the future, but their ability to meet the growing dental burden is hampered by the intentional dismantling of equitable, race-conscious policies in education. This manuscript makes the case for dental school administrators and faculty to ethically promote racial equity and inclusion in their institutions and proposes strategies to accomplish this goal.
Bath EP et al.
2022
- Advocacy Pillars: Institutional Support for Historically Excluded Groups, Workforce Diversification
- Skills: Leadership Development
- Audience: Community Based Organizations, Educators, Researchers, Students/Trainees
The Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Academic Mentors (JAM) Council represents a novel, culturally responsive, and anti-racist approach to achieve a more equitable and inclusive institutional environment. This approach strategically leverages the intergenerational wisdom and experience of senior UIM faculty via time-protected effort with the overall goals of improving rates of promotion, retention, and career satisfaction of early career UIM colleagues. This community case study describes the rationale, resources needed, processes, and proposed workflow required to launch the JAM Council, as well as the major roles and responsibilities for JAM mentors and mentees, which may be considered by academic medical centers focused on improving diversity among the faculty ranks.
Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
2012
- 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: Organizing
- Audience: Artists, Community Based Organizations, Educators, Government Workers, Researchers, Students/Trainees
This article discusses lessons — both past and present — learned from the work of racial justice organizing
Champion Spotlight
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