Through equity-focused, expert facilitation, HES support communities and organizations based on their needs and goals. We work with organizations to actively build meeting agendas and focus group as well as the facilitation of such meetings. In addition to creating new, tailored content, we offer an established and highly evaluated curriculum that is adaptable to the needs of our clients.
Health Equity - The Basics
Participants will walk away from this training with a greater understanding of factors that can impact one’s overall health and well-being. This training will provide participants with the tools to better understand what health equity is, how it reflects in Connecticut, and how they can support the movement towards a better system of health for all.
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Cultural Humility
This workshop is designed to focus on three major concepts, social identities, historical trauma, and trauma-informed identity-focused care. We will cover the importance of social identities and how they influence our connection to power, privilege, and oppression. Building upon these initial concepts, we then define historical trauma and the impacts these events continue to have on communities. Utilizing this knowledge, we will then discuss the basic history, foundations, and implementations of trauma-informed care on all operating levels. Participants will leave this training with a plan to integrate trauma-informed models into their professional lives.
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Implicit Bias
This workshop will invite participants into an engaging and educational space that defines implicit bias and provides tools and methods to recognize and address implicit bias in all forms. Through reflective prompts, facilitated dialogue, and discussion, participants will walk away with an understanding of implicit bias and ways to interrupt and disrupt bias.
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JEDI (Justice Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion)
An Introductory Conversation
This workshop is designed to lay the foundational knowledge for participants as we define key vocabulary, identify structural systems, and build a collective understanding of justice, equity and diversity. This space will invite participants to deepen their awareness of how systems are constructed and interconnected through group activities, self-reflection, and educational models and how we can begin to apply an equitable framework in our personal, interpersonal, and professional lives.
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Trauma-Informed & Identity-Conscious Care
Participants will walk away from this training with a greater understanding of factors that can impact one’s overall health and well-being. This training will provide participants with the tools to better understand what health equity is, how it reflects in Connecticut, and how they can support the movement towards a better system of health for all.
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Accessible Healthcare for Undocumented Immigrants
This workshop is designed to provide a deeper understanding of the multiple systemic barriers that exist for undocumented immigrants related to accessing health care. The workshop builds upon a historical foundation of racism embedded in our immigration policy and uses that to examine social determinants of health and how they affect the navigation of our health care ecosystem. Using this information, we will then discuss ways to interrupt and dismantle the existing barriers, leaving participants with the knowledge to create lasting organizational change and their own personal advocacy plan.
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Racism, Anti-Racism, and Racial Equity in Healthcare
This training is designed to provide an understanding of the historical context of racism in healthcare in the United States. Facilitators foster an environment that encourages participants to come to a consensus about where their organization currently stands on the multicultural/anti-racist continuum. Participants will work together to envision a tangible path moving forward, toward being an anti-racist organization. Participants will leave with applicable knowledge that will allow them to establish key metrics, policies, and protocols that move their organizations toward becoming anti-racist organizations.
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Social Determinants of Health
This training was developed to give providers and people that work within the health system a better understanding of the factors that can influence someone’s (a client or patient or even a family member's) health and their attitudes and behaviors towards health and healthcare access. The goal of this training is to push providers/case managers/and community members to think about the systems that exist in society, to recognize that each system (education, employment, food) impacts the other system, and to understand how systems can impact individual behaviors.
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Advocacy 101 & 102
This is an introductory training but can be tailored to benefit those that are more engaged in the advocacy process. This training gives a basic overview of what advocacy is, how an individual can participate in the legislative process, and the importance of participating in the legislative process. A brief demonstration of how to use the CT General Assembly website is also provided. HES also offers Advocacy 102 training, detailing the difference between lobbying and advocacy.
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Asset-Based Community Development
The goal of the Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) training is to push mobilized groups of people to look within their community for solutions to issues within their communities.
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Storytelling for Advocacy
Do you want policymakers to listen and pay attention to issues that are important to you? Do you want to tell your story in a way that engages and persuades them to make decisions that support health equity? This workshop is for you!
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Birthing Health 101
This training was developed to give providers and people that work within the health system a better understanding of the factors that can influence someone’s (a client or patient or even a family member's) health and their attitudes and behaviors towards health and healthcare access. The goal of this training is to push providers/case managers/and community members to think about the systems that exist in society, to recognize that each system (education, employment, food) impacts the other system, and to understand how systems can impact individual behaviors.
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Birthing Health 102
Participants will enter this space with a shared mutual understanding of the historical implications of birthing health in the Black community gained previously in 101. This workshop will walk participants through programs and resources in our communities, as well as detail the experiences of several young Black women as it relates to mortal maternal outcomes. Participants will leave this training with an opportunity to examine both programs and experiences to create a plan to integrate their ideal community program designed through co-learning spaces in the form of group research and implementation.
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