Health Advocacy Program

 The HealthAdvocacy™ Program is an evidence-informed training that promotes health equity for people with disabilities. Individuals with developmental disabilities (DD) often experience age-related health conditions earlier than their non-disabled peers across the lifespan. Increasing awareness, along with strengthening communication, health literacy, and health advocacy skills, is essential to ensuring accessible, high-quality healthcare and improved health outcomes.

THE TRAINING

TEAM

Beth Marks

Jasmina Sisirak

AUDIENCE

Designed for nurses, primary care providers, allied health professionals, care coordinators, and other healthcare staff who support people with developmental disabilities across clinical, community, and public health settings.

LENGTH

  • 60-minute Webinar

  • Live or recorded

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Structural / Social Determinants of Health (S/SDOH): Accessing Settings-Based Healthcare -  Describe health advocacy and the importance of multi-level advocacy approaches to assess/understand S/SDOH to access settings–based healthcare.

  2. Health and Social Justice: Uprooting Structural and Systemic Bias and Ableism  - Delineate strategies to advocate accessible healthcare to uproot systemic bias and ableism experienced by individuals within healthcare systems.  

  3. Universal Access to Health: Developing Disability Cultural Humility - Apply the full continuum of essential health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care reflecting disability cultural humility. 

COST

  • $50/person (min 6 attendees); 

  • $500/organization (max 50 attendees)

Resources | Publications

HealthAdvocacy Training Citations and Resources

HealthAdvocacy Training Healthcare Stories from People with Disability

The My Health Visit brochure can be used to work with your healthcare provider about your health. This booklet has pictures that your healthcare provider can use to help you understand what is going on with your body and how you can take care of yourself.

Funding

Initial development through the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities, the University of Illinois Chicago Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Developmental Disabilities and Health (RRTCDD), and NorthPointe Resources through partnership with the HealthMatters Community Academic Partnership (HMCAP).