Kindred Coaches
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A diverse & inclusive volunteer community of trained peer coaches who engage Baltimore & the surrounding communities in ‘courageous conversations’ in an effort to achieve health equity and reduce health care disparities.
A recent published study by the American Psychological Association suggests that black women and girls are more likely to cope with racial discrimination through healthy lifestyle choices (exercise and nutrition) than their male peers.
“In this study, Black women and girls didn’t just survive in the face of racism, they actually responded in a positive manner, in terms of their health behavior... This gives us some hope that despite the spike in racism across the country, some people are finding healthy ways to cope.”
01/26/2021
This week we launched our second training cohort! Over 40 more individuals are well on their way to being social justice warriors for health equity. Check out this article where Dr. Scott talks about what motivated her to start Kindred Coaches.
Caring for Patients; Caring for Community - The Shift - US Acute Care Solutions Blog Meeting Patients Where They Are Carol Scott, MD, MSEd, FACEP is a gifted doctor for whom healing goes much deeper than treating and releasing emergency department patients. She’s also passionate about educating her community – and preventing patients from needing her services in the first place....
12/24/2020
Black Doctor Dies of Covid-19 After Complaining of Racist Treatment “He made me feel like a drug addict,” Dr. Susan Moore said, accusing a white doctor of downplaying her complaints of pain and suggesting she should be discharged.
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