Race and Healthcare w/ Dr. Joseph Julia-DiCaprio

On Tuesday March 14th, community members from Redeemer, Edina Lutheran Church, and Westwood Church gathered for the monthly “Race and…” Forum. This month, pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist Dr. Julia Joseph-DiCaprio spoke on the topic of healthcare. Check out some reflections from different audience members who were there.
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“Julia Joseph-DiCaprio is a woman of great warmth and concern about the inequity healthcare. She did an excellent job of speaking to the need for greater diversity among healthcare professionals and community healthcare workers so that better communication and understanding may develop between healthcare receivers and their practitioners. We still need lots of work on awareness of personal bias and use of stereotypes in our society.”  
-Cathy Benson Cook, Edina Community Lutheran Church

“As I reflect on the presentation by Dr. Julia Joseph-Di Caprio, what comes to mind is an affirmation to the job that I was chosen for and agreed to take as a community outreach health worker with the Childhood Teen Checkup Program.  Dr. Joseph-Di Caprio celebrated community health outreach workers and said that she wished there were more outreach workers in the community assisting with preventative care.  That's exactly the kind of job that I've been selected to do and that is what I decided was the right choice for me through a lot of prayer.   I felt like I was being moved in this direction and now it has been affirmed!”
-Cheryl Branch, Redeemer Lutheran Church

“The speaker was very knowledgeable and encouraging of questions. It was very interactive and candid.”
-Steven Hobert, featured performer

“It was an enlightening look into a dark system for so many. The questions and community passion gave me hope that change can happen on a systematic and individual interaction level.”
-Ali Wolfe, Redeemer Lutheran Church   
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“As a white person, I am grateful for this space where we can confess our ignorance, name our role as perpetrators and allow to the change together. We can do all things through God who strengthens us!” -Cheryl, Edina Community Lutheran Church

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