Latino Health Collective Town Halls

The first Thursday of each month we organize our Latino Town Hall where different organizations that serve the Latino community in Philadelphia meet online to share resources, improvements and come up with solutions to better serve our community.

We now have interpretation services for Spanish-speakers at our town hall meetings! 

Everyone is welcome to join us! 
​
We meet on zoom, use our NEW Zoom link to join: https://drexel.zoom.us/j/84357910406

Upcoming Meetings

Date
Presenters
Topic
September 7, 2023
  • Dr. Luis Arturo Valdez will be speaking about an upcoming program that convenes groups of Latino men in community “platicas” designed to challenge and address harmful gender norms—to build community and improve strategies to cope with stress and thereby reduce chronic disease risk. Dr. Valdez is interested in creating collaborative relationships with community organizations that are interested in this type of work to co-create parallel programs according to organization and population needs AND/OR integrate the current program into existing offerings.
  • Sterling K. Johnson, JD, MA, PhD Student/Scholar-Activist, Geography and Urban Studies Department Temple University, and Toby Fraser, MAP Organizer,  will present on the Masculinity Action Project (MAP).  MAP is a program that works on helping negative Masculine personalities to decrease violent behaviors towards others and within themselves. ​
Masculinity and Violence Reduction toward other and within the self.  Interest in creating collaborative relationships with community organizations. 
7 de setiembre del 2023
  • Dr. Luis Arturo Valdez nos hablará sobre su el programa que está a punto de lanzar, llamado "Pláticas" dicho programa esta diseñado para retar y traer a la luz las normas de violencia de genero, y al mismo tiempo construir comunidades y afrontar de mejor manera el estres y consecuentemente reducir el riesgo enfermedades crónicas  — Dr. Valdez esta interesado en crear relaciones de colaboración con organizaciones que estén interesadas en este tipo de trabajo para co-crear programas paralelos de acuerdo a las necesidades de las organizaciones y de las poblaciones y/o integrar y poner a disposicion  los programas actuales  .
  • Sterling K. Johnson, JD, MA, PhD Student/Scholar-Activist, Geography and Urban Studies Department Temple University, and Toby Fraser, MAP Organizer, nos presentará el Proyecto de Acción Masculina (MAP), el cual es un programa que busca ayudar a las personalidades masculinas negativas a disminuir conductas violentas hacia otros y hacia uno mismo. 
Machismo,  reducción de violencia hacia otros y hacia uno mismo.  Posibles colaboraciones con organizaciones que tengan interés y/o manejen actualmente programas afines.

​
CRISOL: El punto de Encuentro para la Comunidad Latina de Filadelfia.
This website was supported by the National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R21MD012352. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.