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RISE (dismantling Racial Injustice and promoting Systemic Equity
RISE is an anti-racism and anti-oppression organization. Through formal and informal work within education, recruitment, research, and advocacy, RISE supports BIPOC and creates policy and culture change with the goal of having ZHH be an actively anti-racist program.
Mission
ZHH RISE is committed to educating, challenging, supporting, and empowering ourselves and our community to actively dismantle racist structures that contribute to inequity, injustice, and mental health disparities.
Research
Identifying racial disparities within
- Diagnosis
- Seclusion and
restraints
- Emergent
intramuscular
medication use
- Unit assignment
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Sharing of articles/resources regarding problematic structures within racial disparity research
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Recruitment
- Admissions committee review
- Visiting program for underrepresented students - Diversity recruitment event
Advocacy
- Local government lobbying
- Vigil for Black Lives
– Attending anti-AAPI violence rally
– Sex Workers Outreach Project drive
– Haiti relief fundraiser
- Efforts to support Ukraine civilians and military
Advocacy
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Education
- Annual anti-racism workshops
- Space in weekly RISE meetings for reflection about current events
– Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights Asylum Training
- Teach Ins with residents and faculty
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Support
– Alternative system for reporting microaggressions
– Weekly BIPOC support groups
– Honoring the tasks of the subjugated and tasks of the privilege
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Movie Club
- RISE members come together to have monthly group discussions on both fiction and non-fiction movies!
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- Past movies include "The Harder They Fall" and "I Am Not Your Negro".
