• Home
  • rainbow flagA Welcoming Congregation
  • Safe Congregation SealKeeping Safe
  • Capital Campaign
    • Contact: Capital Campaign
  • DONATE/REALM
  • TUCWomen
    • About TUCWomen
    • Join Us
    • Events
    • Contact
  • Contact
  • Instagram

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport

10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - Ph: (203)227-7205 Sunday Services: 10:00 AM

Unitarian Universalist Association
  • Calendar
    • Calendar
    • SOUNDINGS
    • Communications Guidelines
    • ZOOM Instructions
    • Tips For Making Videos
    • Event & Space Reservations
    • TUUCWSocial Email List Ground Rules
  • Welcome Visitors
    • UU Orientation
    • Directions & Services
    • Special Ceremonies & Dedications
    • Our Congregational History
    • Our Faith
    • What is a Unitarian Universalist?
    • We are Unitarian Universalists
    • How did you become a Unitarian Universalist?
    • History of the Flaming Chalice
    • UU History in 8 Minutes
  • About Us
    • Our Mission Statement
    • Our Vision Statement
    • About Our Ministers
    • Our Staff
    • Getting Involved
    • Board of Trustees
    • Governance
    • Healing and Resilience Task Force
    • Congregant Celebration
    • Pastoral Care Chaplains
    • Our Welcoming Congregation
    • Photo & Video Galleries
    • Links – Beyond Our Walls
    • SOUNDINGS
    • Communications Guidelines
    • Events & Space Reservations
    • Pledging
  • FAITH FORMATION
    • Faith Formation for Children and Youth 2022-23
    • Welcome to Family Faith Formation
    • This Week in Family Faith Formation
    • Faith Formation Age Groupings 2022-23
    • What to Expect on Sunday Mornings
    • OWL Information at a Glance
    • Youth Ministry
    • Adult Faith Formation
    • Soul Matters
    • Keeping Safe
    • Faith Formation Registration
  • Social Justice
    • Welcome to Social Justice
    • Advocates for Prevention of Gun Violence
    • Beardsley School Committee
    • Immigration and Refugee Committee
    • KIVA Microfinance Committee
    • Racial Justice Committee
    • Westbridge Coalition
  • Music Program
    • Music Choir Schedules
    • Evensong
    • Our Minister of Music
    • The Music Committee
    • The Bell Choir
    • The Choir (Women and Men)
    • Special Projects Choir
    • Once & Again Singers
    • Children’s Choir
    • Teen Choir
    • The Chamber Choir
    • Sight-singing Classes
    • Cabaret
    • Voice Classes
    • Love Is the Spirit
    • Tune My Heart To Sing
    • Support Our Music Program
  • Sermons & Poetry
    • Minister’s Messages
    • Sermons – Audio
    • Sermons – Video
    • Rev. John T. Morehouse’s sermons
    • From Your Senior Minister: Facing Grace
    • Facing Grace – Rev. John’s blog
    • Rev. Frank Hall, Minister Emeritus – sermons
    • Rev. Frank Hall, Minister Emeritus – Dear Friends
    • Intern Minister’s sermons
    • Guest Minister’s sermons
    • Poetry & Readings
    • Communications from Your Ministers
  • Live Stream

Racial Health Inequities, Mon., June 28 at 7:00 PM on ZOOM

Please join TUCWomen for Racial Health Inequities, a webinar on Monday, June 28 at 7:00 PM, open to all. This event is the second program in their series on Black history and its implications for today, Revealing History, How We Got Here, Why It Matters. The program will review some of the historical roots of today’s health disparities and highlight action steps that participants can take to advocate for more equitable health care, both nationally and in Connecticut. Our guest speaker will be the Rev. Robyn Anderson, Director of the Ministerial Health Fellowship. Advance registration is required by clicking HERE.

Connecticut is among the healthiest states in the country, yet a closer look at the data shows clear, tragic and costly health disparities between White people and people of color. For example, according to a 2020 report published by the Connecticut Health Foundation, Black adults are more than twice as likely as White adults to have diabetes, nearly four times as likely to have amputations, and more than twice as likely to die from the disease. Black children and teens are 5.5 times more likely to have an asthma-related ED visit and 4.5 times more likely to be hospitalized due to the condition than White children and teens. According to the Connecticut Health Foundation, socio-economic differences can contribute to these outcomes, but health disparities exist even when controlling for education and income.

In Connecticut babies born to black mothers are more than 4x as likely to die before their first birthday as babies born to white mothers From heart disease to cancer, from infant mortality to life expectancy, why do such disparities exist? How does our history of racism and discrimination impact the health of Black Americans today? And what is being done — and what can we do — to close these gaps?

We are excited to welcome guest speaker, Rev. Robyn Anderson, Director of the Ministerial Health Fellowship, an integrated, faith-based health care advocacy network that addresses systemic barriers to Black communities’ access to care. The program will also include art and musical performances by stage actor Ryan Williams French and Rev. Ed Thompson and The Quintet.

We hope you will join us for this multi-media event that will help explain racial health inequities and why the Centers for Disease Control recently declared racism as a “serious public health threat” to the well-being of millions of Americans and a “fundamental driver of racial and ethnic health inequities in the US.”

Click HERE to register for this free event!

  • Social Justice at TUCW
    • Welcome to Social Justice
    • Advocates for Prevention of Gun Violence
    • Beardsley School Committee
    • Immigration and Refugee Committee
    • KIVA Microfinance Committee
    • Racial Justice Committee
    • Westbridge Coalition

     The Unitarian Universalist
     Congregation in Westport
     is a member congregation of the
     Unitarian Universalist Association

      CLICK HERE if you have any questions      about The Unitarian Universalist
    Congregation in Westport

Congregational Hours: Tuesday - Friday
9:30 AM to 4:00 PM

Summer Hours:
July & August until after Labor Day:
Tuesday - Friday 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM

CLICK HERE to contact the web master

CLICK HERE to opt in to receive
the Weekly Congregational Email Blast

Copyright © 2023 · Visit us at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Westport - 10 Lyons Plains Rd., Westport, CT 06880 - All rights reserved.