274930 Facilitated Dialogue as a Vehicle for Community Engagement and Policy Development

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 : 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM

Doak Bloss, BA , Ingham County Health Department, Lansing, MI
     
Since 1998, Ingham County Health Department has used facilitated dialogue to engage in new relationships with the community and create the collective will for policy change in such areas as access to health care, community health navigators, and the adoption of a social justice framework for public health practice. The presenter will describe the benefits and challenges of using a specific dialogue methodology (Technologies of Participation, from the Institute for Cultural Affairs) for this purpose.

Learning Objectives:
1) Describe the basic elements of a facilitated dialogue methodology as applied in a community health context. 2) Differentiate between the application of this methodology to a conventional planning process and to a process that intentionally addresses issues of social justice and health equity. 3) Assess the appropriateness of adopting a “values-free” facilitation approach in applying dialogue methodology to public health policy development.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Health Equity and Social Justice Coordinator for the Ingham County Health Department in Lansing, Michigan, where I lead a team of 20 facilitators conducting four-day workshops on health equity and social justice for the department’s employees and interested community members.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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