C2 - Social Location: Improving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Practices Through Self-exploration

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Location: Petree C, Level 1, LACC

Track Sponsored By:

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Relias, LLC and National Council for Mental Wellbeing guarantee this educational conference is free from bias.

Workshop Presenter(s)

Rola Aamar, PhD (she/her/hers)

Partner
Relias
Apex, North Carolina

Slides
Nellie Galindo, MSW, MSPH (she/her/hers)

Sr. Product Marketing Manager
Relias
Durham, North Carolina

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) seems to be the phrase on every tongue in health care. The key to effectively integrating DEI in health care rests on the ability to transition from conceptual and educational to practical while embedding it in the value system and workflow of an organization. One strategy to support this integration is to focus on social location. This highly interactive session will encourage in-depth personal reflection on social location, provide an overview of social location and how to discuss it in professional settings and help participants explore their social location and identify areas of their own privilege and marginalization.

Learning Objectives:

Explain what social location is and articulate what social and systemic factors make up social location.
Identify the social and systemic factors (i.e., social determinants of health) that drive health disparities and inequity and how these factors play out on a daily basis in patient care.
Compare and contrast how your social location varies from a patient's social location and the impact of that variance on treatment goals and outcomes.