Applying the Health Equity Lens to People With Disabilities

Thursday, February 11, 2021

12:00P.M. - 12:45P.M. MST

Zoom Webinar

People with disabilities are 10.2% of the Colorado population and people using long term services and supports are less than 5% of the Medicaid population but 24% of the spending. This is the one population that will remain on Medicaid for their entire lives so understanding how to effectively work with this population is essential to meet key performance indicators.  

Why Attend?

• Review the definition of disability and disability culture and how individuals can begin to become competent in the language around disability
• Identify multiple and shifting ways in which disability intersects with other sources of social disadvantage
• Outline the reason for disability-related health disparities and steps they can take to mitigate these

Presenter: Julie Reiskin, LCSW

Julie Reiskin, LCSW, is the executive director of the Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition (CCDC) whose mission is to advocate for social justice for people with all types of disabilities.

CCDC has taken a leadership role within Colorado on disability policy, particularly in health care and assuring that people with disabilities have a voice in shaping disability policy. CCDC is proud to be a disability-led organization. Prior to becoming the Executive Director for CCDC in 1996, Ms. Reiskin served as the organization's policy analyst.

Ms. Reiskin moved to Colorado from Connecticut in 1994. In Connecticut, she was a partner in a consulting firm, specializing in diversity issues throughout Southern New England. She also had a private psychotherapy practice and worked on grassroots organizing and positive youth development with several organizations in Connecticut. 

Ms. Reiskin teaches in the areas of Disability Rights, Disability Cultural Competency, Policy Advocacy, Nonprofit Program Development and Practice, Client/constituent Engagement and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). She consults with other organizations helping them develop and practice real and meaningful client involvement. She is an adjunct faculty with the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. She has served on the Legal Services Corporation Board since 2010 and also serves on the Boards of the Denver Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado and the National Pain Advocacy Center.