Truth, Reconciliation and Health Transformation: A Framework and Modeling for Medical Justice Educators

The toll of racism in health care in America is estimated to be an excess 74,000 deaths in Black men and women per year. Organized medicine has 2-4 initiated a variety of responses to examine and address the history and impact of their organizational policies and actions. The truth, reconciliation, healing and transformation (TRHT) framework has a defined structured process to designed to recognize historical harms, foster communication and truth sharing and facilitate healing within a specific community.
Participants in the workshop will hear from leaders and participants in the TRHT task force a variety of perspectives to visualize and ideate steps needed and resources required to influence their own organizations and communities to identify their own resources and readiness for a TRHT initiative.
Leaders and members of the TRHT task force will share the process, their experience in identifying stakeholders needed in the process, resources needed, and lessons learned. Key points of the TRHT framework will be reviewed.
Workshop breakouts:

In small groups participants will be given prompts of one of these: a simulated academic center, specialty medical society or a health system, each with a recognized history of structural racism. In their groups individuals will systematically review the TRHT framework and the development steps. Groups will identify the required commitment, stakeholders, resources, and community individuals or organizations relevant or required for a successful TRHT initiative.

Participants will leave with an detailed understanding of the principles and processes of THRT and having participated in a simulated planning session in order to gain preparedness for future anti-racist initiatives, including TRHT.