The Ripple Effect
Motivated by the racial reckoning of summer 2020, the Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine launched the Ripple Effect Competition to support actions, programs or projects that meaningfully improve the experience of racially and ethnically diverse coworkers, patients and learners.
Psychiatry and Behavioral Health – BRAM: specially trained facilitators work with employees and their school-age children to create art to learn cultural competency and resilience.
Family and Community Medicine – Kienle DEI award program: monthly award for an employee who has demonstrated active Inclusion practice. The recipient also chooses a Hidden Hero to showcase; someone who has also demonstrated active Inclusion practice, but perhaps not in a way that called attention.
Medicine – Changemakers: Partnering with the film department at Penn State main campus and a Sankofa African American Theater company, this team is creating a series of short films depicting actual incidents of exclusion or disrespect experienced by our employees, to be used as talking points for DEI training by our Office for Diversity.
Anesthesiology and Sim Center – The 100 Voice Project: Create a repository of stories from employees of actual incidents of inclusion. Research component.
The following are on hold due to Covid-19 restrictions:
Child Life – monthly parent lunches from ethnic restaurants with educational material about the country and food.
Surgery – FEAST: Monthly shared culturally diverse meals with storytelling about the culture for groups of healthcare providers and trainees.