Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health was developed in response to the high volume of queries from clinicians and health care staff seeking to learn about providing high-quality care for adults, adolescents, and children who are questioning their gender identity or who identify as transgender or gender-diverse.
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Upcoming Webinars in March
The National LGBT Health Education Center is excited to announce the following upcoming live webinars in March.
Details and registration information are provided by clicking "Read More." CMEs are available.
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- LGBTQIA+ Older Adults
- Transgender Health
Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health 2024
Advancing Excellence in Transgender Health was developed in response to the high volume of queries from clinicians and health care staff seeking to learn about providing high-quality care for adults, adolescents, and children who are questioning their gender identity or who identify as transgender or gender-diverse (TGD).
Collaborators
In 2011, the Bureau of Primary Health Care Health Resources and Services Administration awarded us a National Cooperative Agreement (NCA) to develop and deliver free training and technical assistance to health centers (FQHCs, FQHC look-alikes, and other health centers), Primary Care Associations (PCA), and Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCN) across the country. We work in partnership with BPHC to develop and deliver programs and publications under the NCA.
Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Considerations, Suggestions, and Resources
According to a recent national survey, LGBT people experience domestic violence at least as commonly as heterosexual women, contradicting common misperceptions that men cannot be victims of abuse, and women cannot perpetrate abuse. In this webinar, Cara Presley of Fenway Health’s Violence Recovery Program, will explain the unique characteristics of same-sex domestic violence as well as the benefits of screening LGBT patients. Participants will learn to identify barriers that LGBT victims and survivors of domestic violence face when accessing health care, legal protection, and safe shelters.
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- Behavioral Health
- Sexual Minority Women
LGBT Families: Improving Access to Better Health Care
Increasing numbers of LGBT people are forming unions and building families in an ever-changing legal landscape. In order to increase access to quality care for LGBT couples and families, health care providers may need to familiarize themselves with the current local and federal policies that affect LGBT health care. In this webinar, Michael Porcello, Legislative Counsel for the Family Equality Council, will focus on health care access issues for LGBT couples and families, including implications from the Affordable Care Act, and will offer suggestions for improving health care access for LGBT families. This webinar is the first of a two-part series on LGBT families being offered by the Family Equality Council and the National LGBT Health Education Center.
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- Reproductive Health
Issues in Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Considerations, Suggestions, and Resources
According to a recent national survey, LGBT people experience domestic violence at least as commonly as heterosexual women, contradicting common misperceptions that men cannot be victims of abuse, and women cannot perpetrate abuse. This webinar, led by Jessica Newman and Cara Presley-Kimball of Fenway Health’s Violence Recovery Program, explains the unique features of same-sex domestic violence as well as the benefits of screening LGBT patients. Participants will also learn to identify barriers that LGBT victims and survivors of domestic violence face when accessing health care, legal protection, and safe shelters. There is also a brief overview of the Violence Recovery Program at Fenway Health, a unique model program that is integrated into the behavioral health department of a community health center.
Rural Latino LGBT HIV Prevention: Community Building and Access to Care
Farmworker Justice and the National LGBT Health Education Center are jointly presenting a new webinar on rural Latino LGBT health, with a focus on interventions that promote HIV prevention in LGBT communities. Scott Rhodes, PhD, MPH, of Wake Forest School of Medicine, will discuss a promising new community-based participatory research project that aims to prevent new HIV and STI infections through building and supporting positive social networks and increasing community capacity among Latino gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), and transgender people. Next, Anna Rick of California Legal Rural Assistance will describe access to care issues for rural Latino MSM in California, and will discuss ways in which her organization works with parents of Latino LGBTQ youth (a population at higher risk for HIV) to engage them in supporting behaviors. Free CME/CEU credit will be offered.
Providing Care and Support for Transgender Rural Latino/as and Migrant Farmworkers
This webinar represents a unique opportunity to learn about the health and support needs of transgender Latino/a migrant farmworkers and other rural Latino/a transgender persons. Dr. Jennifer Hastings of Planned Parenthood Mar Monte and Anna Rick of California Rural Legal Assistance, who both have extensive first-hand experience in caring for and assisting these populations, lead participants in understanding aspects of the life and health care experiences of their transgender patients and clients. Webinar participants will also learn methods for asking appropriate, sensitive questions about gender identity concerns, and strategies for providing sensitive, inclusive care based on cultural humility. Dr. Hastings and Ms. Rick will also explain their model of inter-agency collaboration that works to help clients find legal and community supports to enhance their health and well-being. This webinar is a collaboration of Farmworker Justice and the National LGBT Health Education Center, both National Cooperative Agreements with the Health Resources and Services Administration of the Bureau of Primary Health Care.
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- LGBTQIA+ People of Color
- Transgender Health
The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, 2nd Edition
American College of Physicians (ACP), 2015. Editors: Harvey Makadon, MD, Jennifer Potter, MD, Kenneth Mayer, MD and Hilary Goldhammer, MS of the Fenway Institute, Fenway Health
This new 2nd edition of The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health reflects clinical and social changes since the publication of the first edition.
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- Introduction to LGBTQIA+ Health
