June is Men's Health Month

Igniting conversations toward achieving health equity

Share Share June is Men's Health Month  You're invited to two events: Join the Charge to  Advance Health Equity in CT  Register On June 12th, please join our Data Walk & Town Hall! The event seeks to foster interaction among stakeholders from different sectors to explore and determine actionable steps toward moving the needle on achieving health equity among #BMOC. You will have a chance to review and react to the health equity indicators in the #CTBMOCReportCard, BMOC have considerable untapped potential for contributing to economic growth, vitality, competitiveness, and social innovations in Connecticut and throughout our nation. Advancing health equity among BMOC first requires documenting the most disparate health outcomes and the broader social conditions driving them. Through an interactive and engaging program,  participants will be able to: Recognize male-role specific barriers and fortify collective action unique to males from underserved populations groups; and Leverage statewide and local strategic planning initiatives aimed at reducing health disparities, improving healthcare quality, and transforming service delivery models for the health and well-being of boys and men, based on the statewide publicly available data from HDI’s CT Report Card on Health Equity among Boys and Men of Color.pdf EVENT DETAILS Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Doors open and registration begins at 5:00 PM. Location: Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford, CT click here for directions Parking: Limited free parking is available on the Arch Street garage ramp. Metered parking is available on Arch Street ramp and on Main Street, Sheldon Street, and Arch Streets surrounding the Library. Parking is free after 6:00pm. Additional parking is available at Sheldon Street/ Prospect Street Parking lot. The event is FREE and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Dr. Wizdom Powell and the UConn Health Disparities Institute invite you to join us for our2nd Annual Visualizing Health Equity Gallery and Artist Talk with Frederick Douglass Knowles (author, artist, activist) and Valerie Ingram (Artistic Director and Founder of Ruby’s Realm Productions). The theme for our #VisualizeHealthEquity event is “Our Language, Our Story, Our Vision”. Here, we will explore the ways that oral and written artists reclaim words/language as a source of power, healing and activism for health equity and social justice! They create worlds with words – thus casting a vision of possible futures for our community. EVENT DETAILS  Date: June 19th, 2019 Time: 5pm-8pm (artist talk begins at 6pm) Location: JCJ Architecture 120 Huyshope Avenue Hartford, CT in Colt Gateway (Colts Dome) Suite 400 Registration is Preferred Click here for directions The event is FREE and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.  Parking at JCJ Architecture is onsite at the Colt Dome. Enter the parking lot from Huyshope Ave, and park behind the forward facing building. Public transportation options: CT Hartford Line, CT Fastrack, Lyft and Uber For more information contact HDI Community Engagement Core Lead, Denise Smith, desmith@uchc.edu If you require an accommodation to participate in any of these events, please contact Allison Joslyn at 860.679.1917; ajoslyn@uchc.edu at least 5 days in advance. UConn complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding non-discrimination, equal opportunity, affirmative action, and providing reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities.  Contact: Office of Institutional Equity; (860) 486-2943; equity@uconn.edu; http://www.equity.uconn.edu. We hope to see you and look forward to advancing health equity with you! UConn Health Disparities Institute Team Share Share