Advocacy & Organizational Governance
Resources from STFM
- Family Medicine DEIA Advocacy Toolkit
Promotes DEI in healthcare from a local and national legislation standpoint - Voter Voice Advocacy Action Center - Oppose Anti-DEI Efforts
Voter Voice: facilitates participation in real-time federal advocacy and shape national healthcare policies
Resources From Other Organizations
- APHA Racial Equity
- Being an Active Bystander (pdf)
Guide to how individuals can be active bystanders when faced with the verbal and non-verbal emergence of implicit bias in interpersonal interaction - Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization (pdf)
Helpful framework for contemplating and advocating for change within academic institutions - Family Medicine Committee on Anti-Racism (FM-CAR) Anti-Racism Roadmap for Family Medicine: A Focus on Governance & Addressing Equitable Financial Practices (pdf)
Lays out key areas where systemic or structural racism are creating disparities; Promotes targeted action toward increased health inequity and anti-racism - Southern Poverty Law Center
Resource offers tips and steps to help readers prepare before encountering difficult situation - University of Iowa Patient-Initiated Harassment Toolkit (pdf)
Provides tips for clinical staff and trainees who are harassed or intimidated by patients as well as suggestions for how to respond if you witness such harassment
Past Initiatives
These resources have been aggregated by the STFM DEIA Committee.
If there are additional programs or resources you would like to submit for consideration for this page, please contact April Davies at adavies@stfm.org.
