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Racism

NCCHC provides continuing education credit—more than 100 hours each year—for physicians, nurses, psychologists and social workers, as well as general credit for CCHPs and professionals in other disciplines.

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Jul 31, 2024

Enhancing Workplace Relationships Through Antiracism FREE Webinar

This webinar explores lived experiences, offers a dialogue on how racism impacts individuals working in correctional health care, and discusses interventions. MORE INFO
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Oct 20, 2023

Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Endorses NCCHC Position Statement on Racism in Juvenile System

“… essential guidance on tackling racism in the juvenile legal system and custodial settings.”
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Apr 10, 2023

Lived Experience: The Need for Anti-Racism Work in Correctional Health Care Webinar

This webinar explores lived experiences, offers a dialogue on how racism impacts individuals working in correctional health care, and discusses interventions.
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Mar 31, 2023

2022 NCCHC Committee on Systemic Racism Open Forums: Initial Findings

The mission of NCCHC’s Committee on Systemic Racism is to guide the field toward eradicating systemic racism in health care
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Feb 16, 2023

How We Talk About People Matters: The Case for Person-First Language in Correctional Health Care

The way we use language to conceptualize people can shape our attitudes about people and how we treat them.
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Feb 15, 2023

NCCHC Issues Position Statement on Racism in the Juvenile Legal System

The pervasive criminalization of misbehavior of school-aged Black youth has created the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Jun 7, 2021

Leading in Difficult Times: Racism and Inequity

Part 3 of a conversation with Esmaeil Porsa, MD, MPH, MBA, CCHP-P, CCHP-A, Ron Charpentier, MBA, and Kevin Counihan, with Brent Gibson, MD, MPH,