Medical Library Association 2006 Annual MeetingMedical Library Association 2006 Annual MeetingServing Diverse Users: Cultural Competencies for Health Sciences LibrariansServing Diverse Users: Cultural Competencies for Health Sciences Librarians
Reverend Mary Diggs-HobsonExecutive Director, AARTH Ministry
7728 Rainier Avenue SouthSeattle, WA 98118
www.aarth.org
Medical Library Association 2006 Annual MeetingMedical Library Association 2006 Annual MeetingServing Diverse Users: Cultural Competencies for Health Sciences LibrariansServing Diverse Users: Cultural Competencies for Health Sciences Librarians
Presentation will cover:
• AARTH Ministry & program services• Collaboration between cultures • Why the collaboration was revolutionary?• The librarian’s role in community:
AARTH’s perspective• Providing services in cultural appropriate
ways and places
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAARTH’s MissionAARTH’s Mission
AARTH Ministry is a faith-based nonprofit established to help build the capacity of faith houses and institutions that serve people of African descent through:
• Health education and training• Compassionate service• Access to health resources• Self-advocacy for better health care systems
AARTH Ministry Program Strategy
Health Mission Teams
Training
Certification
Resource Materials
Funding Support
Access to Wellness Network
Online access to culturally relevant health resources
HIV/AIDS Education
& Training
Facilitator Training creating safe spaces for healthy
dialogue about HIV/AIDS
Health Ministry A ministry of health,
healing and wholeness for the body, mind and
spirit
Health Connections
Health partnerships
Access to health resources
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry Core & Companion Program ServicesCore & Companion Program Services
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry
Collaboration between cultures: Mars Hill Graduate School Library & AARTH Ministry
• Introductions: facilitated by mutual acquaintance• Dialogue: initiated based on common needs • Partnership: supported by common organization,
program goals & NNLM funding• Roles & responsibilities based on:
– Respect– Clearly defined and mutually agreed upon definitions in
the program scope of work– Willingness to share resources and meet the needs
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry
Why the collaboration was revolutionary?
• The first partnership of its type between faith based capacity building organization & librarians
• Challenged traditional practices for librarians to work with community
• Changed traditional methods for accessing health information
• Established a new model for librarians to provide health information
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry
Why the collaboration was revolutionary?
• Access to Wellness Project partnership
• AARTH web site development and maintenance
• Health information expertise and resource
• Board of directors relationship
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry
The librarian’s role in community:
AARTH’s perspective
• A member of community willing to take health information to the people in culturally appropriate ways and places
• Active listener using appreciative inquiry• Collaborator and bridge builder• A follower and supporter • Capacity builder presenting choices & resources
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry
Providing services in cultural appropriate ways & places:
• Creates sustainable community health information services
• Develops skills• Presents career opportunities• Expands community access to health information
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry Access to Wellness Network
Providing services in cultural appropriate ways & places:
On site Internet & health data retrival Training
Assessing health information needs
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry Health Ministry Development Health Ministry Development
Paradise of Praise C.O.G.I.C.Health Ministry
Creates sustainable community health services•Health program services•Health fairs/workshops•Community health information site•Support career opportunities
Providing services in cultural appropriate ways:
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry
Providing services in cultural appropriate ways & places:
Church Health Ministries:•First A.M.E. •Paradise of Praise
Develops skills
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry Health Ministry Development Health Ministry Development
Greater New Bethel Health Ministry HIV/AIDS Outreach at SAARS Grocery
Providing services in cultural appropriate ways & places:
Expands access to health information to the streets
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry Health Ministry Development Health Ministry Development
Providing services in cultural appropriate ways & places:
Expands access to health information to community events & workshops
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry Health Ministry Development Health Ministry Development
Providing services in cultural appropriate ways & places:
Expands access to health information to community health fairs
Expands access to health resources & literature
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry Health Ministry Development Health Ministry Development
Providing services in cultural appropriate ways & places:
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry AccomplishmentsAccomplishments
Education & Training• 4 HIV/AIDS Prevention Instructor
Certification Courses• 27 Certified HIV/AIDS Prevention
Instructors• White House Faith based and
Community Initiative Regional Conference
Special Events - 2003, 2004• 7 Health Fairs• 3 Health Symposium• National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness
Day• Black Church Week of Prayer for the
Healing of AIDS• World AIDS Day• HIV/AIDS video production “Who Will
Speak for Me?”• Historical HIV/AIDS Covenant with
African American Clergy
Collaborations• 8 AWN Partner Churches• United for Health Communities -
street outreach• Public Health Seattle King County
HIV/AIDS Ad Campaign• PHSKC African American Clergy
Breakfast• PHSKC King County Leadership
Summit• Fred Hutchinson HIV Trial Vaccine
Unit “A Closer Walk”• Balm in Gilead National Black Church
Institute for HIV/AIDS• Mother of Peace Community
Orphanage, Zimbabwe South Africa
African Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) MinistryAfrican Americans Reach and Teach Health (AARTH) Ministry AARTH Partnerships & CollaborationsAARTH Partnerships & Collaborations
Partial List of Church Partners• Allen Temple Baptist - Oakland, CA • Bethel Christian Church• Covenant Missions Intl.• ECOM/EBFC• Faith Deliverance• Freedom Church of Seattle• Greater New Bethel Baptist• New Covenant Christian Center• Outreach Christian Center• Peoples Institutional Baptist • Southern Sudanese Women • Showers of Blessings• Tabernacle Missionary Baptist• Paradise of Praise COGIC• Grace United Methodist• First A.M.E.• Martin Luther King Baptist
AARTH TeamMary Diggs-Hobson, Executive DirectorBetty Morgan Office Manager/AdminGlenn Chinn BookkeeperRosa Young Health EducatorJeremiah Brewer Health EducatorReginald Diggs AWN Project ManagerKhaliah D. Willis Health Outreach Worker
Board of DirectorsPeter Masundire, PresidentNancy Press SecretaryDorothy Caldwell TreasurerYalonda GillGwendolyn Williams*Reginald Diggs
7728 Rainier Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98118
Phone: (206) 850-2070
Fax: (206) 722-8869
AARTH MinistryWeb siteWeb site
www.aarth.org
Project funded by: The National Network of Libraries of Medicine