Lightning talks (CJS2022 Day 2)

Joe Amditis1h 24min

Stefanie Murray

00:02

So the lightning talks are always our most popular thing. Every year we survey attendees and every single year lightning talks are far the way that the folks love. So let's get to it. We have half of our panelists are here and even present in a studio. We're all together here in a room. The other half are virtual. So this is going to be a fun experiment. We'll see how it goes. So we will start off Lee's out, please take the stage take over and tell us about Tayo.

Leezel Tanglao

00:41

All right, hi, everyone. My name is Leezel Tanglao. I am the Project Director of Tayo. We're super excited, here to talk today about our project and our main takeaways, and working with a very collaborative and multidisciplinary team. So we're going to start with our team member, Dr. Melissa Palma, who is going to talk to us about some of the major things that are happening in the community and filming community in regards to COVID-19. Sorry.

Dr. Melissa Palma

01:22

Hi, and thank you so much for having us at the Collaborative Journalism Summit. My name is Melissa Palma, one of the title medical advisors and along with Leezel Tanglao and Mark Calaguas, I'd like to welcome you to our talk to help desk putting us into Filipino American COVID-19 community health education. And so as a background as the services we provide to the Filipino community, Asian Americans are the fastest growing US racial and ethnic minority, covering a diverse range of cultural, linguistic and socio economic statuses anywhere from Burmese refugees to Bangladeshi refugees all the way up to high earning Indian South Asian Americans. The Asian American population the US has grown more than 72% Since the year 2000. According to the Pew Research Center, and immigrants from the Philippines are oftentimes the third or second most largest Asian American group in many United States. The Philippines is an archipelago colonized by Spain since the early 16th century and then later the United States after the Spanish American War, and with a population of over 100 million people. The Philippines actually has 10 million people in diaspora over 4 million of them living here in the United States. And due to the history of colonialism, overseas worker policy of labor, export and remittances to keep the Philippine economy alive, has led to many folks here in the United States working in both healthcare and as domestic workers. For the Philippine exile community in the United States, a majority over 50% live on the West Coast living in states such as California, whereas Los Angeles has the largest population of Filipinos outside of Manila. Other large states with populations include New York, New Jersey, Texas, Florida, and where I live my hometown in Chicago, Illinois, where over 140,000 Filipino Americans live,

Unknown Speaker

03:10

work and play.

Dr. Melissa Palma

03:12

However, throughout the pandemic, it's become very apparent that there have been health disparities suffered by the Filipino community. And this can be hidden by data aggregation making Asian American groups as a whole look healthier than normal, whereas other groups such as Filipinos can have worsening health equity in mental health, cardiovascular health and other types of health outcomes. This is really highlighted by a paper published by Carlos Barone say at all, in the Jama health for showing how the US healthcare relies on Philippine X Americans while ignoring their needs in the COVID pandemic. Although Filipinos comprised only 42% of COVID deaths among Asian American adults in California, despite making up just 20% of the state's non elderly Asian American adult population in the state of California in the study, no other Asian subgroup accounted more than 50% of deaths. Oftentimes, this is attributed to the higher rates of multigenerational households in Asian American communities make it difficult to socially distanced from COVID-19 high rates of comorbidities such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes within Filipino Americans when data are disaggregated as well as occupational hazards. Although Filipinos make up just 4% of the nursing population in the United States, they accounted for over 25% of nurse deaths due to COVID-19 According to National Nurses

Mark Calaguas

04:33

United. Hi, and so now mentors still Pro Tool pro stands for the Filipino Young Leaders program. Before the pandemic, the organization was censored on a yearly immersion trip. We're A cohort of young Filipino Americans representing a broad range of industries were selected to travel to the Philippines to connect with decision makers in government, business and the nonprofit sector. This program aimed to foster citizen diplomacy, and develop legacy projects that make a positive impact on people in the Philippines are here in the diaspora. All of the presenters on this talk are alumni of the program when the pandemic hit, so procreated COVID task force to provide a rapid response. Initially, this consisted of fundraising efforts to boost the capacity of those working on the ground. And so we were able to get things like PPE, food and other supplies to local communities on both sides of the Pacific. But as Dr. Palma just referenced, all of us were feeling the personal toll of the pandemic, many of our family members, our health care workers, and sadly, we didn't need to look very far for examples of loved ones dying or falling seriously ill. Filipinos also tend to have close knit families, and the urge to come together socially, through large gatherings has been a traditional source of comfort. But for this crisis, these activities posed a huge threat to our health. We were all struggling with how to keep our families safe under these conditions. During one meeting, a board member lamented how hard it was for him to convince his parents to shelter in place. He said he wished there was a playbook to help fil AMS talk to their elders about taking seriously the public health guidance about COVID. This was the initial spark. In summer 2020, we successfully pitched the Booz Allen foundations COVID Innovation Fund, and secured our first major grant ever and Phil pro history. This was the seed money for the title help desk, which launched in October 2020, with a pilot geared towards Filipinos in the LA region tayo, which translates to us and Filipino consists of a virtual platform located at title help.com, where we have since published more than 500 articles in a q&a format, covering a wide range of topics. Our main goals are to combat misinformation, and to connect seniors, the unemployed, and essential workers with government resources and social services. before it's published, the content is vetted by a panel of subject matter experts, including physicians, public health experts, attorneys, social workers, and more. The articles are written in an accessible and culturally relevant style, which are available in both English and Filipino. This content is also posted to social media, which is a major source of news for Filipinos. For any questions not covered by existing article, users may submit their queries through our ticketing system, which we'll pass along to our experts in order to craft an individual response or even a new article. So far, title help.com has received over 4600 visitors and processed more than 25,000 self service interactions. Titles offerings have only grown since. After receiving a second round of funding for Booz Allen. We launched a dedicated hotline earlier this month, which replicates the website services via a live call center agent. This brings us closer to fulfilling our original vision for the help desk. It makes our content more accessible to a major part of our intended audience, which is seniors and other folks who may not be comfortable navigating online platforms. And now to talk about the many partners we've collaborated with during tiles ongoing growth and expansion. I'll turn it over to title project director and Filipino President Lise Eltech. Lau

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