Community Health Worker (CHW) Resource Package

'can be used to integrate CHWs within the broader health workforce and to promote their professionalization'

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Flagship Community Health Worker Resource Package compiles priority resources for strengthening CHW programs developed through USAID’s Bure

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - by Robin DiAngelo

‘it is time for all white people to take responsibility for relinquishing their own racial supremacy’

From the publisher: Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unint

Interconnections essays, comments and opinions now available in one place

They are listed by the year of publication starting with the most recent.

Go to: http://www.tacinterconnections.com/index.php/essays

The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology

Book by Mark Boyle

From the publisher:

No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce.

In this honest and lyrical account of a remarkable lif

"The Story of WILD" - Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability - VIDEO - inspiring

"The Story of WILD," a multimedia performance

- layering live and recorded elements, was a creative collaboration between three MacArthur Fellows to celebrate the power, leadership and dreams of disabled women activists around the world.

Watch: https://www.miusa.org/event/2020/watchparty

Health for the People: National Community Health Worker Programs from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

A free-access resource that can add more momentum to the movement and contribute to health for the people

By Henry B Perry

The book consists of case studies of 29 national community health worker programs, along with lengthy introductory and concluding chapters.

Altogether, this document contains 47

Children’s Palliative Care: An International Case-Based Manual. Edited by Julia Downing

‘This manual enables individuals working in children’s palliative care (CPC) globally to learn through engaging real-world cases’

From the publishers:

The aim is to provide a clinical case-based resource that is globally relevant and accessible to those working in CPC. Drawing on case historie

The F Words

The Ontario Brain Institute hosted a Public Talk on the

"F-Words: Finding the Ability in Disability"

in February.

Visit the OBI website to view the presentation!