{"id":2038,"date":"2009-09-04T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icpj.org\/?page_id=2038"},"modified":"2010-02-15T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:49:28","slug":"health-care-working-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/program-areas\/racial-economic-justice\/health-care-working-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Working Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Engaging our spiritual values in the health care dilemma<\/h2>\n<p>ICPJ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Racial and Economic Justice Task Force has recently branched out to create a new <strong>Health Care Working Group<\/strong> to help engage congregations in a moral and spiritual way on the health care issue. This group has drafted a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153core values statement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to highlight the fundamentals of what we believe:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health Care Core Values Statement: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;\"><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We believe that in a just and moral society every citizen must receive access to health care and equitable coverage of services. Every citizen deserves the reasonable expectation of a healthy life. In this time of transition, we seek this new vision of health and health care for our brother and sister Americans.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Health Care Working Group of ICPJ would like to offer your congregation a chance to talk more about the current health care crisis, your own fundamental values related to health care, and your visions for a just health care system. Our goal is <strong>to promote a space for people of faith and conscience to think critically about health and health care.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>How can we support you?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">\n<li>Schedule us to host a workshop for your adult education group (view a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TiNiEAOG6lA\">film clip<\/a> of our workshop in October 2009 at Chelsea United Methodist Church);<\/li>\n<li>Share our Core Values Statement in your congregation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bulletin to spark discussion;<\/li>\n<li>Get resources from our group to host a small-group discussion for your small faith group;<\/li>\n<li>Show a short film that highlights the racial and economic justice aspects of health and access to health care (borrow ICPJ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s copy of <em>Unnatural Causes<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please let us know if we can support you in any of these ways to engage your congregation in this critical current issue by emailing <a href=\"mailto:gracek@icpj.net\" target=\"_blank\">gracek@icpj.net<\/a> or calling (734) 663-1870.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ICPJ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Health Care Working Group Members:<\/strong><em> LaRon Williams, Jim Mogensen, Phil Kneesi, Diane Hunter, Larry Horvath, Lena Macfadden, Deborah Fisch, Heather Kofke-Egger, Alan Connor, Susan Grubb, Richard Durance, Grace Helms Kotre<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engaging our spiritual values in the health care dilemma ICPJ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Racial and Economic Justice Task Force has recently branched out to create a new Health Care Working Group to help engage congregations in a moral and spiritual way on the health care issue. This group has drafted a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153core values statement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to highlight the fundamentals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2038","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2038\/revisions\/2405"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icpj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}