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BaCE Workshop: Understanding and Navigating Culturally Safe Dialogues and Cultural Humility

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About the event

Join this safe, brave and welcoming space to explore concepts of cultural safety, restorative justice and cultural humility; shifting and shared power; and their relevancy in research and scholarship, teaching, service and practice to advance health equity. You will be provided with resources and encouraged to reflect, engage in reflexivity, and engage in culturally safe dialogues and cultural humility to facilitate empowerment.

  • Location: Zoom
  • Facilitator: Connie Nguyen-Truong
  • A Group 2 workshop, College of Nursing colleagues may receive CE through College of Nursing (contact Connie Nguyen-Truong for more information).
Who can participate:
WSU students, faculty, staff and administrators

Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong Biography

Connie Kim Yen Nguyen-Truong, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, (she/her/they), is a tenured Associate Professor at Washington State University, Department of Nursing and Systems Science, College of Nursing in Vancouver. She is Vietnamese with a Guamanian Micronesian Islander background and raised in an immigrant and refugee family. She is recognized as a Martin Luther King Jr. Community, Equity, and Social Justice Faculty Honoree. She is a Fellow of the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education and American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Nguyen-Truong’s research is across sectors and multidisciplinary, and with community and health organizations and leaders, community health workers, students, and faculty. Areas include health promotion and health equity, culturally specific data; immigrants, refugees, and marginalized communities, including Asians, Micronesian Islanders, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders; community-based participatory research/community-engaged research; parent leadership and early learning; diversity and inclusion in health-assistive and technology research including adoption; and cancer control and prevention. Dr. Nguyen-Truong and partnerships have translated funded research initiatives and advocacy leadership–ally-ship with diverse communities that helped drove changes such as improved the wrap around healthcare and services delivery infrastructures and informed by disaggregated data. These resulted in addressing complex experiences of historical trauma-diaspora, race-based stress, and racial trauma, and building on strengths of communities, includingAsians, Micronesian Islanders, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.

 

Contact

Dr. Connie Nguyen-Truong c.nguyen-truong@wsu.edu