Be The Change

In 2020 Carolyn Jahr PA-C and Abbey DeLislie PA-S received a “Be The Change” grant from the nccPA Health Foundation.  The “change” stands for Create Health Access Now for Greater Equity.  See the September/October 2020 issue of imPAct for the original story.  The October NCCPA News provides an update on their project.

Be the CHANGE grantees Carolyn A. Jahr, DMSc, PA-C, and PA Student Abigail E.M. DeLisle partnered to enhance educational experiences for PA students at The College of St. Scholastica (CSS), empowering them to foster equitable care in their careers as PAs. Their goal: Recruit a more diverse standardized patient (SP) pool that reflects the Minnesota communities served by CSS PA students and graduates.

“This project seeks to promote conversation, provide learning opportunities for students and communities of color across racial lines and invest in anti-racist work through the utilization of a diverse SP pool. As PAs, we know that the patient-provider relationship is intimately sacred; this project creates an opportunity to actively confront implicit bias, build interpersonal skills, and physically touch individuals who may be different than ourselves as a small step to dismantling systemic racism in healthcare,” said Carolyn A. Jahr, DMSc, PA-C.

You can read the entire NCCPA update here Grantee Spotlight: Promoting Equitable Care for Diverse Patients (newsweaver.com)