As the weather is warming up, we have exciting events coming up as well and there’s a great event happening TOMORROW!
Community Dialogue on Community Health
(click on image for Facebook event page)
We hope you will join us for a facilitated community dialogue on: Access to Health: It’s Political—A Community Dialogue on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 (TOMORROW) 5:30-7:00pm in the JMU Rose Library, 3rd Floor Flex Space.
(Parking is available to campus visitors in the C10 and D2 lots between 5:30pm and 7:00pm. No permits will be necessary)
This discussion will center on the question “How can we educate and engage community members in all facets of healthcare and remove barriers to wellness, access to preventative and urgent care, and local resources in an effort to protect, promote and enhance quality of life.”
This focus was sparked by many of the ideas in the A Book for the ‘Burg selection, Mountains Beyond Mountains, about the work of Dr. Paul Farmer in addressing critical health issues and finding that those issues intersect with politics, the natural environment, cultural values and norms, transportation, etc. The discussion will consider how healthcare intersects with these issues right here at JMU, in Harrisonburg and in the Valley and consider how we might all contribute to our community’s health.
This interactive event is being led by trained student facilitators of the 4C Initiative: Campus Community Civic Collaborative, a program of the Institute for Constructive Advocacy and Dialogue (ICAD)/School of Communication Studies. This event is part of a larger programming schedule for A Book for the ‘Burg, a community reading experience. The event is free, open to the public, and does not require participants to have read the book.
See more on healthcare access and community dialogue at a blog created by students: http://accessinghealthjmu.wordpress.com/contact-us/
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