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7 Reflections on the Workshop
Pages 61-66

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From page 61...
... society has largely ignored these issues, he said, they have to be addressed to create and scale up programs across the country to ensure that all communities benefit. Finally, the United States is a capitalist society.
From page 62...
... "They worked through a recent Texas legislature on justice issues, and I can't say how wonderful it was and the impact that they made." People with lived experience need to be integrally involved in designing and implementing policies, said Martinez, which is "something that we all need to think hard about." PARALLELS BETWEEN THE HEALTH CARE AND JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEMS Reginald Tucker-Seeley, Edward J Schneider Assistant Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southern California, drew attention to the issues that are similar in the health care and juvenile justice systems.
From page 63...
... Such a diagram could also reveal to policymakers where they can intervene in the system to improve the lives of children and their families. Such a diagram could show that "here are the short-term cure points, when we're just putting a Band-Aid onto a bigger situation, but here's the bigger situation." Michal Rudnick, project manager at the AHCCCS, cautioned the workshop participants that health care organizations are under pressure from a large number of constituencies, all of which are facing severe problems.
From page 64...
... "We have to find a better way to take the knowledge that's being learned in your fields and get it to us and to people who can make changes in the system." Even a straightforward directory of who is doing what at a university could help information move across disciplinary and professional borders, he said. Catherine Gallagher, professor at George Mason University, remarked on the inevitable tension between talking about real people and convert ing their experiences into numbers.
From page 65...
... "We can make bad things good, but we can make bad things much worse." LOOKING FARTHER UPSTREAM Shreya Kangovi, executive director of the Penn Center for Community Health Workers at the University of Pennsylvania, noted that she hears every day about the consequences of structural violence done to groups and individuals, whether that consists of locking people up or children killing themselves in solitary confinement or people getting sick and dying. Even the work on social determinants of health is downstream from the perpetration of structural violence, she said.


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