Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Resources
Anti-Racism Resources
Resources for Educating Yourself
- Anti-Racism Resources
- AAP Statement: The Impact of Racism on Child Health
- Surviving and Resisting Hate: A Toolkit for POC
- Your Black Colleagues May Look Like They’re Okay
- Ally, Accomplice, Co-Conspirator
Resources for Parents and Educators
Resources for Action
Diversity Committee Resources for Parents
Discussion by Jenny Hung, MD
Racism and community violence are not new issues. They continue to threaten children’s health of all ages, races, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds. With the senseless deaths of black Americans and recent protests on the news, it is understandable that kids may have questions and feelings about what they have seen and heard. We hope to provide some guidance and support to facilitate discussions with children of various ages. These discussions are essential for the process of addressing inequalities and healing our communities.
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Tips for Talking with Your Child
- Talk routinely and revisit discussions over time in different ways.
- Emphasize that racial violence is very very wrong.
- Be calm, but be honest with your own emotions. Also, do your own homework processing your feelings and bias history.
- Be honest with what you know and don’t know, and work together to find accurate information.
- It is important that children understand that there is as much diversity within racial groups as across them. Every racial and ethnic group includes people who believe and behave in different ways.
- It is our responsibility to understand the histories and experiences of different ethnic groups including bigotry, oppression, and community violence, but also share stories of resilience and triumph.
- Explain that the struggle for racial equality continues to be a significant issue and explore ways in which everyone can do their part.
- Do what you can to reassure your child and let him or her feel safe.
- Proactively instill pride and self-esteem in your child of color, and talk about hope.
Ages and Stages
- Infants and toddlers: Babies as young as 6 months can start noticing racial differences. Providing toys and books with different races and cultures is a good way to introduce babies to these concepts.
- Preschoolers: Children 3-5 years old may begin to ask questions and share observations, which should be encouraged.
- School-aged children may benefit from playing with peers of various racial and cultural backgrounds. Parents may proactively seek participation in activities that offer diverse social and cultural experiences.
- Adolescents may benefit from engaging in positive change via advocacy, visiting museums, and watching thought-provoking movies that can generate discussion. Instill media literacy.
Harbor-UCLA Pediatrics Diversity Committee COVID-19 Summary
Data shows a striking overrepresentation of historically marginalized groups, including African Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, are affected, in many ways, by the COVID-19 pandemic. At Harbor-UCLA, we see the impacts of the pandemic on individuals living without housing. COVID-19 amplifies preexisting social inequities tied to race, socioeconomic class, and access to health care. It is essential to shine a light on the drivers of racial and ethnic inequities, such as bias, as we continue to combat the medical and economic crisis created by the coronavirus.
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AMA Health Equity Resources on COVID-19
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the AMA is carefully compiling critical health equity resources from across the web to shine a light on the structural issues that contribute to and could exacerbate already existing inequities…
COVID-19 and Health Equity Webinar
Using a health equity and human rights lens to protect vulnerable populations during this pandemic and beyond…
Structural Competency in the Time of COVID-19 Part 2: Medically Marginalized Populations
A virtual panel on the structural competency in the era of Covid. Structural competency refers to the commitments and skills of clinical, allied fields and communities to work against health inequalities at structural levels…
Social Distancing is a Privilege
The idea that this virus is an equal-opportunity killer must itself be killed. People like to say that the coronavirus is no respecter of race, class or country, that the disease Covid-19 is mindless and will infect anybody it can…
Color of Covid: The racial justice paradox of our new stay-at-home economy
In what I call the “color of Covid,” the pandemic has highlighted a range of underlying inequalities on race — including on the job front — now exacerbated by the health crisis and the emerging stay-at-home economy…
10 Steps to Save Native Americans from Covid-19 Catastrophe
The pandemic ravaging some Native American communities has echoes that go back centuries — to the measles and smallpox epidemics that first decimated the original Americans. This time, however, rapid action can avert a catastrophe…
Racism in the Time of COVID-19
In December 2019, the first cases of “a pneumonia of unknown cause” were reported in Wuhan, China, a port city of 11 million people in the central Hubei province. As COVID-19 — an infectious disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 — spread and reached the status of a pandemic by March 11, 2020, so did racist and xenophobic rhetoric…