HANDS State Appropriation
Project Description:
The Center for Health Equity works to ensure that individuals of all ages and abilities will have a fair and just opportunity to live a healthy and meaningful life in the community.
Our core values help determine what we do and how we do it.
We value a social justice and human rights approach to ones full health so that individuals with disabilities will be able to lead healthy and meaningful lives.
We see persons with disabilities as contributing and valued citizens whose voices count.
We see disability itself not as a personal quality but as an interaction between an individual and his/her environment.* This leads us to focus not on persons, but on disabling environments, including human-built, social, policy, and attitudinal environments.
We believe partnering with people with disabilities and their families is critical in all aspects of our work, including research, because they have lived experience in challenges we aim to address.
We believe collaboration with stakeholders in multiple sectors is essential in achieving health equity for and among people with disabilities given a wide variety of factors affecting ones health.
We value engaging communities/neighborhoods in achieving health equity because environment has considerable impact on health.
We believe people with disabilities can lead a self-determined life through community membership, civic engagement, reciprocal relationships and supported decision-making.
Core Function(s):
Training Trainees, Performing Research or Evaluation, Developing & Disseminating Information
Area of Emphasis
Quality Assurance, Health-Related Activities, Housing-Related Activities, Recreation-Related Activities, Other
Target Audience:
Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees), Community Trainees / Short term trainees, Professionals and Para-Professionals, Family Members/Caregivers, Adults with Disabilities, Children/Adolescents with Disabilities/SHCN, Legislators/Policy Makers, General Public
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
State, National, International
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
