Shared from parkinsonsnewstoday.com.
Two University of Michigan-Flint doctorate students received a $50,000 grant to support diversity among exercise providers offering care to people with Parkinson’s disease.
The grant, from The Michigan Health Equity Challenge, will help the pair’s Move to Represent initiative train 10 physical and occupational therapists of color to implement an exercise and physical therapy program called PWR!Moves at the university’s Health Equity, Action Research, and Teaching (HEART) health clinic.
Move to Represent, developed by physical therapy doctoral students Nia Ahart and Zoey Humes, aims to improve patients’ trust and participation in exercise programs by providing them with access to providers representative of their communities. The team will use the funding to partner with the Michigan Parkinson Foundation to send students through the foundation’s Train the Trainer program.