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Crowdsourcing a Pathway Model in Appalachia
Mission of the project
Mission of the project
Thank you for visiting this website, affiliated with the WVU Senate Faculty Inclusion and Diversity Committee. With your assistance, we are refining a pathway model that explains institutional racism from the unique standpoint of Appalachia. Our goal is to use crowdsourcing to refine this model based on comments, edits, questions, and ideas you leave on this website. For immediate participation with no further background go here to provide input, questions, suggest changes, etc. to the model. https://forms.gle/uV4AJdrzMuLWJah56
Read further for more background.
You will find three different models. We are most interested in your thoughts on Model 1 below which represents institutional racism at a 60,000 foot level. It is Model no. 1 that we want you to focus on.
Note: While you may remain anonymous while providing feedback, you will need to provide some basic information and geographic location to participate in this process and move forward in the effort. We do want input from people who are in the Appalachian region.
If you are interested, we have posted 2 additional models that you may review and offer comments. The second model examines more closely the trauma that results from institutional racism. This model relies on findings regarding infant and maternal health for US-born Black and White women, examining how trauma, defined as poverty and racism results in adverse birth outcomes.
The third model developed by Dr. Andress depicts how society constructs social status and then distributes resources and opportunities inequitably resulting in social and health inequities. To read more about this model, visit Place & Health in West Virginia.
You may scroll down a bit to find links that provide more details about any of the Pathway models. Next, to provide feedback scroll down to Crowdsourcing.
Institutional racism from a 60,000 foot level from the Faculty Senate Inclusion and Diversity Committee. This model was designed by founding IDC committee chair, Lauri Andress For a full description click here.
Model 2: The Trauma of Institutional Racism via the Central Nervous System (CNS) For a full description, click here
Model 2: The Trauma of Institutional Racism via the Central Nervous System (CNS) For a full description, click here
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The trauma of institutional racism via the central nervous system (CNS)
The theoretical model for understanding the link between maternal PTSD (including racism and poverty) and adverse birth outcomes.
A Place-Health Model on the Production of Inequities
https://placeandhealthwv.com/how-place-and-health-interact/
According to the place-health model, differences in health, social, and economic status at the bottom of the model originate at the top with the cultural toolkit that is attached to a place or region. The toolkit is where the construction of place begins as social processes assign meaning to phenomena using a shared set of norms, systems of beliefs, narratives, and distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features. This cultural toolkit is also where a society assigns meaning to groups that are different. Using values, beliefs, and other information each society labels groups. The result is a hierarchical arrangement of groups based on their assigned social status. The consequences are stigmatized groups that stay at the bottom. The conclusion of this assignment of social status is how society distributes opportunities and resources using policies, rules, and regulations.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing
Please use the Google Form link below or simply enter feedback in the embedded form to provide input, questions, suggest changes, etc. to the model.
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