KANLUNGAN

Are you a former health care professional who feels deskilled and wants a change?

September 23, 2009

Training: “Advocacy Based Approaches to the Deskilling of Migrant Health Professionals”

Saturday 31st October  11 a.m.  – 5.00 p.m.

@ Praxis (community centre) Pott Street, London E2 0EF

Tel: 020 7729 7985 
 Buses: 8, 106, 254 and 388
 Underground: Bethnal Green Station 
(Central Line)

Are you a former health care professional who feels deskilled and wants a change? This training will help you to gain support and advocacy to move in this direction. Taught by Sondra Cuban, PhD, of Lancaster University, you will start a portfolio of hidden but important skills and knowledge about advancement and advocacy in the UK that aims at collective empowerment for students in social care.  The goals are:

• To become aware of global deskilling and transnational care of migrant health care professionals and identify ways that this phenomenon has affected the livelihood of yourself, family and community.
• Information sharing about international, national, and local organizations to assist you, with a guest speaker who can advise on nursing.
• To trace your professional journey and share your story in video format so as to build your presentation skills in a supportive environment and raise public awareness about the situation of many Filipino health care professionals in the UK so as to change common misperceptions.
• To develop greater support systems for advancement and self-determination for your rights as students and people.
• To gain greater assertiveness skills for dealing with agency staff, tutors, administrators, employers, clients and colleagues surrounding abuse and discrimination.

This workshop will involve stimulating activities and include a packet of information with worksheets, including a skills audit and union organizing for the development of your portfolio. Other ideas for future collaboration and actions will also be explored. Please bring some precious items, from your present and past life, including any poems, certificates, music, photos, etc.. to share.

As part of an Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) study, you will be paid £10 for your participation in the training, including, the completion of a short assessment on your experiences, and an additional £10 for a phone interview 3 months after the workshop is over. Video and consent forms will need to be completed at the beginning of the training.

For further information on the content of the training, please contact, Sondra Cuban at: s.cuban@lancaster.ac.uk or 07590698804. For administrative questions, consult Jamima Fagta at Kanlungan at: jfagta@googlemail.com or 07538797963

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