2008 Video clips

(please note that the first few minutes have no sound as the drummers are warming up)

 

Opening Drum Call to Order: 

  Mu Daiko, Minneapolis MN

  Julia Puebla Fortier, Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care

  Dennis P. Andrulis, PhD, MPH, Drexel University

  Mee Moua, JD, MPAff, Minnesota State Senate

 

 

Video 2: Plenary 1: Serving culturally diverse populations: Models of collaboration

 

Plenary 1: 

This features speakers from a national foundation, a national government agency and a regional organization who will offer perspectives on using a collaborative or partnership model to achieve improvements in health care for diverse populations. Each presenter will give a big-picture view of how their organization uses this approach on projects related to culturally diverse populations, describe the work of exemplary projects, and synthesize some of the lessons learned. Among the issues that will be touched upon are:

 

     How are these collaboratives or partnerships organized?

     What are the challenges of making approach work?

     How are goals set, and what is considered success?

     How do others outside the partnership benefit from the accomplishments of these collaboratives?

     Are the successes replicable, and how would others go about doing this?

 

Michael Painter, JD, MD, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  

Carol E. Berg, RN, BSN, MPH, UCare

 

 

GRAND COLOSSEUM EVENT with Gladiators, a Roman Emperor, Duels and Fireworks. Note to participants: Come prepared for battle. Weapons provided.

 

THEME: Language access.

GOAL: Participants who attend this workshop will learn how to present compelling evidence for language services (a) clearly; (b) coherently; and (c) with logical precision. Such arguments may help them to create, support or enhance interpreting and translation programs. Participants will engage in practice debate with gladiator skeptics who, through wordplay and swordplay, will endeavor to hack participant arguments to pieces.

 

To strengthen the participants' skills in marshalling and presenting strong evidence to support the need for language services, this workshop will include:

1) PHASE I: GLADIATOR BATTLES After introductions and the presentation of a Roman Emperor and Roman Goddess who serve as judges, participants will hear two experts briefly lay out a case regarding the current evidence for language services. The audience will learn the importance of assessing the quality of evidence, which includes medical research, laws and legal cases, national standards, expert opinion, accreditation requirements, case studies and reports from the field. Three duels will follow between gladiators who viciously (but verbally) assault three untrained innocent orators who support language services, shredding the orators’ arguments to ribbons.

2) PHASE II: GLADIATOR TRAINING in small groups will follow. Each work group will have its own facilitator and work with two handouts: one handout that summarizes the evidence in favor of language services and another that lists tips and strategies about how to present such evidence calmly and persuasively. In this hands-on portion of the session, each small-group facilitator will play a hostile skeptic to help participants practice presenting strong arguments in favor of language services.

3) PHASE III: THE GRAND GLADIATOR FINALE! Three trained “orators” will demonstrate how to defend themselves against three gladiators. The gladiators will argue with words and weapons; the three trained participants, bearing no weapons, will peacefully disarm their gladiators with charm, sound arguments and compelling evidence, preserving the dignity and decorum of all (while providing the thrill of a feisty debate). The Roman Emperor and Roman goddess will crown the victors. The event will close with celebratory, smoke-free fireworks.

 

Moderators:Marjory A. Bancroft, MA and Barbara Rayes