Moving Forward on Racial Justice Philanthropy

This is the fifth volume of the Critical Issues Forum series, which aims to deepen the discourse around important progressive racial justice issues within philanthropy. As PRE celebrated our 10th anniversary last year and engaged allies within the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors to mark the occasion with us, we heard "Have you seen any progress?" repeatedly and knew it was important to take stock of what many of us have been collectively aiming to move for decades. Through focus groups, webinars and direct interviews, our team has sought to get a strong sense of both funders' and activists' perspectives on progress particularly over the past two decades. We have heard real frustration, especially as the needs are so critical and the level of urgency among activists and communities is so high. However, in spite of these very real concerns, we have also seen clear commitment and depth of understanding in other quarters. We are pleased that through funder case studies and activist essays about structural racism analysis, intersectionality and media justice, we're able to share real progress, even as each piece recognizes there is still much more to be done

Catalytic Change: Lessons Learned from the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment

ARC and PRE designed the Racial Justice Grantmaking Assessment to help foundation staff and leaders understand the benefits of being explicit about racial equity, and to determine the degree to which their work is advancing racial justice. This report is based on the pilot process, and is intended to share insights into some of the barriers within the philanthropic sector that stand in the way of achieving racial justice outcomes. It is organized into five segments:This introduction, which provides brief profiles of ARC and PRE, and of the assessment team;A description of the assessment process, including definitions, assumptions, and methodology;An overview of the assessments of the Consumer Health Foundation and the Barr Foundation, including brief profiles of each, summary findings, recommendations, and impacts to date;Lessons learned from the pilot process by the ARC-PRE assessment team; andAppendices with more detailed findings, recommendations, and initial impacts for each foundation

Integrating the Telequit Smoking Cessation Program in the Admission Process and Analyzing Its Effect on the Rate of Utilization by Homeless Veterans Within a Federal Healthcare Facility

The use of telehealth for smoking cessation has not been consistently applied and evaluated within the hospital admission process despite the supporting evidence. Likewise, telehealth interventions have not been evaluated in the context of the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) framework. This quasi-experimental quality improvement study of two groups seeks to fill this gap by investigating the effectiveness of integrating a Telequit smoking cessation protocol for homeless veterans into the hospital admission process. The findings are expected to support incorporating Telequit e-consults into the patient admission template within the federal healthcare inpatient residential program. Currently, the Telequit consult is not offered in the admission questionnaire, which may lead to missed opportunities of offering Telequit to incoming residential patients. It is hypothesized that by incorporating the Telequit referral in the admission process, more veterans would be enrolled in the Telequit program. The null hypothesis is that it will not impact referral and engagement

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An Examination of the Relationships Between Social Anxiety Dimensions and Alcohol-Related Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Drinking Context

The problematic drinking patterns of the college student population has elicited a campus-wide initiative to promote effective prevention and intervention efforts to reduce the range of associated academic, physical, and psychosocial consequences. Identifying those college students at greater risk for developing an alcohol use disorder informs student life personnel of ways to tailor efforts to ensure effective, healthy changes. Students with social anxiety pose a particular risk for developing problematic drinking patterns because of their heightened focus on how they are viewed by others in social situations coupled with drinking being viewed as a normative behavior. Because these students’ anxiety increases in social situations, utilizing a biopsychosocial framework that examines the role of drinking contexts in the relationship between social anxiety and problematic drinking patterns will shed light on effective prevention and intervention efforts for this subgroup of college students. Further, consideration of the cognitive and behavioral dimensions of social anxiety in relation to both problematic and safe drinking behaviors will provide a broader conceptualization of these students drinking experiences. The current study examined the mediating role of three drinking contexts on the relationship between three dimensions of social anxiety and six alcohol-related outcomes (three problematic and three safe drinking behaviors). Data were collected from 678 traditional-age college students from a mid-size university in the Southeastern region of the United States. As predicted, evaluation fears-related social anxiety predicted more alcohol consumption, hazardous drinking, and alcohol-related negative consequences, and less controlled consumption and serious harm reduction protective behavioral strategies. Further, negative coping drinking contexts partially mediated each of these relationships. Contrary to predictions, no significant direct or indirect effects were found between performance- and interaction-related social anxiety and alcohol-related outcomes. Further, no gender or racial differences were found in the predicted model. Overall, it appears that the cognitive vulnerabilities of students with social anxiety are more predictive of problematic drinking patterns. In line with the biopsychosocial model, it appears that these students are engaging in problematic drinking behaviors to cope with their symptoms. Important implications for prevention and intervention efforts, as well as directions for future research are outlined below

Subaqueous landslides at the distal basin of Lago Nahuel Huapi (Argentina): Towards a tsunami hazard evaluation in Northern Patagonian lakes

The May 22nd, 1960 Valdivia earthquake, Chile (Mw 9.5) triggered a series of subaqueous mass-wasting processes (debris flows and slides) in Lago Nahuel Huapi (Argentina), generating a tsunami-like wave that hit the coasts of San Carlos de Bariloche. Aiming to provide a first preliminary insight into tsunami hazards for the lakeshore communities, in this paper we identify and characterize the subaqueous landslides at the populated distal basin of the lake. Swath bathymetric and seismic profiling surveys were carried out and high-resolution digital elevation models were derived from these data to perform a landslide inventory map. A series of morphometrical parameters (including the landslide area, the volume of displaced materials and the run-out distance, among others) were estimated upon selected events. The results indicated that landslide activity at the distal basin of Lago Nahuel Huapi has been concentrated in the vicinity of Bariloche (massive landslide triggered by the 1960 earthquake) and within steep delta fronts where the slope failures typically initiate at shallow waters (9–11 m depth). The sliding mass frequently travels basinward along a great distance (≥1000 m). At the delta fronts, the volume of material removed by landslides can reach ~40 × 104 m3 , leaving scar areas of up to 13 m thick. The periodic occurrence of rotational–translational mass movements initiating at the upper edge of the delta fronts, with vertical displacements of the mobilized materials reaching ~200 m, probably represents a potential tsunami hazard for the nearby populated coasts.Fil: Beigt, Debora. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto Andino Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto Andino Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales.; ArgentinaFil: Villarosa, Gustavo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto Andino Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto Andino Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales.; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche; ArgentinaFil: Gomez, Eduardo Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía; Argentina. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional; ArgentinaFil: Manzoni, Carolina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Patagonia Norte. Instituto Andino Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto Andino Patagónico de Tecnologías Biológicas y Geoambientales.; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche; Argentin

Children’s HEalthy Weight guideline Implementation in the dental setting : a multi-phase sequential mixed methods project : the CHEWI project

There has been an increasing prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity worldwide and locally, with a quarter of Australian children now considered overweight or obese. This is of concern as obesity in childhood is associated with obesity in adulthood and increased risk of chronic diseases. In response to this, in 2015 the New South Wales (NSW) government released a Premier’s Priority titled “Tackling Childhood Obesity”, which called for all public health services to identify children above a healthy weight and refer them to appropriate services. This priority encompassed public dental services, due to the shared risk factors between childhood obesity and oral health including consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, and the opportunities they have to recall and monitor child patients at regular intervals. In light of this, in 2018 the NSW Ministry of Health released guidelines titled ‘Growth Assessment and Dietary Advice in Public Oral Health Services’ for dental staff (DS) such as dental and/or oral health therapists and dental assistants across the state. However, to ensure these guidelines are incorporated into practice, it is anticipated that implementation strategies will be required to support dental practitioners. This study aimed to develop and pilot implementation strategies to facilitate the translation of the ‘Growth Assessment and Dietary Advice in Public Oral Health Services’ guidelines into dental staff’s practice. Specific objectives included: 1. Summarise the existing evidence on the most effective guideline implementation strategies for the dental setting. 2. Codesign implementation strategies with dental staff and parents to facilitate implementation of children’s healthy weight guidelines into the dental setting. 3. Design and psychometrically evaluate an instrument that measures dental staff behavioural intention. 4. Refine and pilot test the implementation strategies using the developed instrument and service data. This project has provided valuable insight into the systematic development of implementation strategies for the dental setting by drawing upon the principles of codesign as well as involving a range of stakeholders. It was clear that dental staff can play a key role in addressing overweight and obesity in childhood, although this can be a challenging role expansion. A systematic approach where dental staff and parents could codesign their own strategies, and in ensuring involvement of other stakeholders in the refinement of these strategies produced strategies that were acceptable, feasible, and sustainable for all involved parties. Initial findings from this project showed promising improvements to behavioural determinants and self-reported behaviours following the introduction of the strategies for one district

Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens

When the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE), in partnership with GrantCraft, released Grantmaking with a Racial Equity Lens, a few foundations had made racial equity a central focus of their work, but many were still exploring how to incorporate equity into their grantmaking.Our guide helped surface how to advance racial equity in philanthropy, aiming to make it a core practice and goal of grantmakers. Rather than other popular approaches of the time—"colorblindness," universal approaches, diversity—PRE's guide defined a racially equitable world as one where the distribution of resources, opportunities and burdens is not determined or predictable by race. We successfully argued that an explicit racial equity lens ensures that the particular needs and assets of communities are

Changing the Rules of the Game: Youth Development & Structural Racism

With support of the Ford Foundation, the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) and mosaic consulting embarked on an 18-month study into the ways select community organizations engage youth in confronting structural racism. For this report we use the definition of structural racism developed by the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change1 : "The history, public policies, institutional practices, and cultural stereotypes and norms that together maintain racial hierarchies and inequitable racial group outcomes." Four primary research questions animated this project: 1. How do youth development organizations conceptualize and approach structural racism in their work? 2. Are there commonalities across these definitions and approaches? 3. What challenges do they face? 4. What can we learn from them

Inclusion productive rurale : l’expérience d’assistance technique et transfert de revenu de l’État du Ceará, Brésil"

La 4ème étude de cas du WWP énumère les défis rencontrés et les enseignements tirés de la mise en œuvre du Transfert de fonds orienté vers la production rurale (Fomento às Atividades Produtivas Rurais) dans l’État du Ceará, situé dans le Nord-Est du Brésil. Ce programme a été dirigé par l’Entreprise d’assistance technique et extension rurale du Ceará (EMATERCE), qui a dû adapter sa structure pour répondre aux besoins de 20 mille familles vivant en situation d’extrême pauvreté. Ce programme encourage les petits producteurs à adopter une meilleure gestion de leurs bêtes et/ou de leur production agricole ; il leur distribue pour ce faire des ressources non remboursables et leur propose une assistance technique et extension rurale (ATER).Número de páginas: 30 p.Políticas Públicas e SociaisCette publication fait partie d'une série d'études de cas de l'Initiative brésilienne d'apprentissage pour un monde sans pauvreté (WWP, pour son sigle en anglais)