Tillman a Black Woman Head of New Multicultural Health Oregon Dept. of Human Services With Spanish Only Memo : More Discrimination against Native Oregonians

Fall of the West: illegal aliens from Mexico etc are already getting every kind of entitlement our government offers, Let us all Worship the Cult of Diversity, Mexicans use food stamps and welfare in US, multiculturism reaches Oregon from United Kingdom, Oregon Dept. of Human Services With Spanish Only Memo : More Discrimination against Native Oregonians, They get free spanish interpreters up at OHSU. Now we have a new department.

Oregon Dept. of Human Services – 06/10/09

10 de junio de 2009

Este mes el Departamento de Servicios Humanos de Oregon tomó un paso importante para reducir las disparidades a largo plazo registradas en el cuidado de salud, servicios humanos y empleo expandiendo el alcance de la Oficina de Servicios Multiculturales de Salud trayendo nuevo liderazgo y enfoque a la misión.

Tricia Tillman, anteriormente en el Condado de Multnomah, se ha sumado a DHS como la administradora de la Oficina de Servicios Multiculturales de Salud. Bajo el comando de Tillman la oficina proveerá liderazgo y apoyo y trabajo a nivel estatal para mejorar la condición de salud y acceso a los servicios humanos y de salud de poblaciones insuficientemente representadas en Oregon. La oficina también será responsable the acciones afirmativas, iniciativas y la diversidad cultural en DHS.

“Estamos comprometidos en ayudar a las personas a romper las barreras que impiden a muchas personas a obtener la igualdad de la atención de la salud, la igualdad de acceso, y la igualdad de empleo en Oregon,” dijo el Dr. Bruce Goldberg, director del Departamento de Servicios Humanos.

Además, la oficina de Servicios Multiculturales de Salud será elevada en la oficina del Director de DHS y Tillman reportará directamente al Dr. Goldberg.

Tillman viene a DHS del Departamento de Salud del Condado de Multnomah en Portland. Ella estaba encargada de la Iniciativa de Igualdad del Condado y del Programa de Iniciativa Africo-Americana de Justicia de Salud Sexual. También co-presidió el Equipo de Diversidad y Calidad.

Ella ha dedicado su carrera a promover un trabajo altamente cualificado, con una fuerza de trabajo diversa, para comprometer a la comunidad en la salud pública, y en identificar y reducir las diferencias en el servicio de salud.

“Estoy muy emocionada en contar con la oportunidad de centrarme en temas multiculturales del estado,” dijo Tillman. “Y soy realmente una apasionada en abordar los temas de desigualdad y en cómo construir un canal para conseguir que más personas diversas se unan a las carreras de servicios públicos.”

Tillman ha trabajado en varias capacidades en salud maternal, infantil y de la comunidad, por los últimos 16 años, coordinando esfuerzos para mejorar la salud en las poblaciones desfavorecidas en Arizona, Massachussets y Oregon. Centrándose en las mujeres, niños y comunidades de color, utiliza estrategias que incluyen organizar la comunidad, investigación participativa, educación popular y apoyo político.

Obtuvo una prestigiosa beca de Martin Luther King de la Universidad de Boston, así como de salud pública a través de la Fundación del Comité del Congreso Negro. Recibió su maestría en salud pública de la Universidad de Boston y su título de Licenciatura en Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad Católica de America en Washington, DC.

Tillman comenzará su nueva posición el 18 de mayo

Office of Multicultural Health Services gets new leader, new focus, expanded mission
Oregon Dept. of Human Services – 06/10/09

June 10, 2009

This month the Oregon Department of Human Services took an important step to reduce long-time disparities in health care, human services and employment by expanding the scope of the Office of Multicultural Health and bringing new leadership and focus to the mission.

Tricia Tillman, formerly of Multnomah County, has joined DHS as the administrator of the Office Multicultural Health. Under Tillman the office will provide statewide leadership and advocacy and work to improve the health status and access to health and human services of underrepresented populations in Oregon. The office will also be responsible for affirmative action, diversity intiatives and cultural competency in DHS.

“We are committed to helping people break down the barriers that keep too many people from getting equal health care, equal access, and equal employment in Oregon,” said Dr. Bruce Goldberg, director of the Department of Human Services.

Additionally, the office of Multicultural Health will be elevated into the office of the Director of DHS and Tillman will report directly to Dr. Goldberg.

Tillman comes to DHS from the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland. She managed the county’s Health Equity Initiative and the African American Sexual Health Equity Program. She also co-chaired the department’s Diversity and Quality Team.

She has spent her career working to promote a highly qualified, diverse workforce, to engage community in public health, and to identify and reduce health disparities.

“I am excited about having the opportunity to focus on multicultural issues statewide,” said Tillman. “And I’m really passionate about addressing health disparities and how to build a pipeline to get more diverse folks coming into public service fields.”

Tillman has worked in various capacities in maternal, child and community health over the past 16 years, coordinating efforts to improve the health of disadvantaged populations in Arizona, Massachusetts and Oregon. Focusing on women, children and communities of color, she uses strategies that include community organizing, participatory research, popular education and political advocacy.

She earned a prestigious Martin Luther King Fellowship from Boston University as well as a public health fellowship through the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She received her master’s degree in public health from Boston University and her bachelor’s degree in political science from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Tillman began her new position on May 18.

The Immigrant and the Fairy

—–A beautiful fairy appeared one day to a destitute refugee claimant outside a Maryland immigration office.’My good man,’ the fairy said, ‘I’ve been sent here by President Obama and told to grant you three wishes, since you just arrived in the United States with your wife and three children.’

The man told the fairy, ‘Well, where I come from we don’t have good teeth, so I want new teeth, maybe a lot of gold in them.’

The fairy looked at the man’s almost toothless grin and – PING! — He had a brand new shining set of gold teeth in his mouth!

What else?’ asked the fairy, ‘two more to go.’

The refugee claimant now got bolder.

‘I need a big house with a three car garage in Annapolis on the water with eight bedrooms for my family and the rest of my relatives who still live in my country. I want to bring them all over here – PING! – In the distance there could be seen a beautiful mansion with a three car garage, a long driveway, a walkout patio with a BBQ in an upscale neighborhood overlooking the bay.

‘One more wish’, said the fairy, waving her wand. ‘Yes, one more wish.

I want to be like an American with American clothes instead of these tore cloths, and a baseball cap instead of this turban. And I want to have white skin like Americans.

PING! – The man was transformed, wearing worn out jeans, a Baltimore OriolesT-shirt and a baseball cap. He had his bad teeth back and the mansion had disappeared from the horizon.

‘What happened to my new teeth?’ he wailed. ‘Where is my new house?’

THIS IS GOOD ……… .. . . . . . . .

The fairy said ‘Tough shit, Mac, Now that you are a White American, you have to fend for yourself.’

And she disappeared.