VCC Nursing Health for All World Cafe

All are welcome to join Vancouver Community College nursing for their yearly Health for All World Cafe: The Collaborative Role of Nurses in Advancing Health Equity to celebrate ways that nurses (and interdisciplinary health and social service providers) can collaborate with health promotion specialists and Indigenous and non-profit-civil society partners in population health promotion to enable health for all.

Location:

In Person: Broadway Clark campus in our Event B 1 space Health Sciences Building (Building B). Baked goods donated by VCC BSN nursing faculty members.

Zoom: Members who RSVP will be sent a zoom link one hour prior to this event

Program schedule:

1230-12:40 Land and Labour Acknowledgement

1245-1:30 Key note speakers

1:30-1:40 Updates on national nursing advocacy work and orientation to World Cafe process. For an intro to the World Cafe process, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrTKD8NpApY

1:40-3pm World Cafe table dialogues

1:40 to 2pm Dialogue Session 1

2pm to 2:15pm Networking break

2:15 to 2:30pm Dialogue session 2

2:30 to 2:45pm Dialogue session 3

2:30-3:00pm Closing Insights regarding ways the health system can support full scope nursing and inter-disciplinary health and social service practice in collaboration with Indigenous and inter-sectoral NGO-civil society partners in population health promotion/health equity advocacy from World Cafe Tables

Networking Display Table will include:

·     Examples of VCC student population health promotion projects

·     All community partners are welcome to bring brochures and information regarding their health promotion work to share on our Display Table.

·     National nursing advocacy resources for full scope nursing education and practice

·     Health Promotion Canada resources to link into national intersectoral network working to address the social determinants of health

Introducing guest speakers:

Dr. Mariana Chilton author of The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again and founder and directer (2004-2024) of Dornsife's Center for Hunger-Free Communities, a community-engaged research and advocacy center focused on developing solutions to hunger and economic insecurity and founder of Witnesses to Hunger, a movement to increase women's participation in the national dialogue on hunger and poverty will join to share insights from her 25 years of research, programming and advocacy to end hunger demonstrating that to solve hunger, we must think way beyond food to incorporate personal, political and spiritual approaches to promote flourishing. This involves looking at the original wounds in North America caused by colonization, genocide and enslavement, and reckoning with hard questions about why we let hunger persist. Through the insights gained from her grassroots community organizing among women facing discrimination and marginalization, it becomes clear that the experience of hunger is rooted in trauma and gender-based violence – violence in our relationships with each other, with the natural world and with ourselves. Chilton’s book helps to re-invigorate our collective commitment to uprooting the causes of poverty and discrimination, and points to a more generative and meaningful world where everyone can be nourished through transformative policy approaches such as universal basic income (UBI), universal health care, prison abolition, and solidarity economies, and discusses the political importance of reparations and rematriation of Indigenous populations.

Dialogue Table Presentations IN PERSON:

Dialogue Table A:

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Dialogue Table B:

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Dialogue Table C:

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Dialogue Table D:

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Dialogue Table E:

Networking table for community partners

Suggested readings prior to event to enable meaningful dialogue include:

Public Health Association's Health focused Green New Deal policy platform

Engagement of Sectors Other than Health in Integrated Health Governance, Policy, and Action by Evelyne de Leeuw

The World Health Organization Commission on Civil Society

For an update Health Promotion Canada's recent renewal work

Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion

Population Health Promotion: An Integrated Model of Population Health and Health Promotion

Suggested videos:

Let's Start a Conversation About Health...and Not Talk About Health Care at All by Public Health Sudbury and Districts

The Ottawa Charter as an effective health promotion framework

Health Promotion and the Ottawa Charter - Creating Healthier Populations

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion @ 35: From Ottawa to Geneva including Dr Evan Adams co-Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Public Health First Nations Health Authority