Pride Month 2024 Workshop
Create a New Tool to Promote LGBTQIA+ Health Access and Equity
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Prepare for Pride Month 2024 by creating a tool to promote LGBTQIA+ health access and equity! Join us for an engaging four-part Learning Collaborative (LC) designed as a workshop to equip health centers and their partners with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to address health disparities within the LGBTQIA+ community. Facilitated by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center, participants will first learn about the unique health needs and social barriers faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals. Subsequent sessions will focus on screening techniques, addressing health-related social needs, and collaboratively developing a new tool tailored for Pride Month. The LC concludes with a presentation and implementation plan for the developed tool, empowering participants to improve access to care for LGBTQIA+ individuals and aligning their work with objectives for enhancing health equity.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain a better understanding of the unique health disparities faced by the LGBTQIA+ community.
- Acquire knowledge of effective screening techniques for identifying health related social needs within the LGBTQIA+ population.
- Develop skills in addressing health-related social needs and barriers to care for LGBTQIA+ individuals.
- Collaboratively design and create a practical tool aimed at promoting LGBTQIA+ health access and equity for Pride Month 2024.
Week 1: Understanding LGBTQIA+ Health Disparities
7 May 2024
Delve into the unique health disparities faced by the LGBTQIA+ community. Led by experts in LGBTQIA+ health, attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of the barriers to care experienced by LGBTQIA+ individuals, including discrimination, stigma, and lack of culturally competent healthcare services.
Guest Speaker: Julian Dormitzer, Certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner, Fenway Health
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Week 2: Screening and Addressing LGBTQIA+ Health Needs
14 May 2024
Learn effective screening techniques and strategies for addressing the health needs of LGBTQIA+ individuals. Through interactive workshops and case studies, attendees will acquire the skills necessary to identify and address common health concerns within the LGBTQIA+ community, such as mental health issues, HIV/AIDS, and gender-affirming care.
Guest Speakers:
- Gabrielle Ochoa, MD, Internist, El Rio Health
- Paul Sacamano, PhD, MPH, NP-C, AAHIVS, Nurse Practitioner, El Rio Health
- Colette Oesterle, MD, Pediatrician, El Rio Health
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Week 3: Developing a Tool for Pride Month
21 May 2024
Collaborate to develop a practical tool aimed at improving health access for LGBTQIA+ individuals during Pride Month. Whether it’s designing a new screening question, crafting messaging about legal needs and services, or drafting language for an organizational proclamation, attendees will work together to create a tangible resource that addresses the specific health and social care needs of the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Part 4: Presentation and Implementation
28 May 2024
Participants will have the opportunity to present their tool to the group. Through peer feedback and discussion, attendees will refine their tool and develop a plan for implementation during Pride Month 2024. By the end of the Learning Collaborative, participants will be equipped with a concrete tool and the knowledge and skills necessary to promote health equity for LGBTQIA+ individuals, aligning with NCMLP’s objective for improving access to care for marginalized populations.
Resources
- Participant Contact List
- “Transgender Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships”
- Resources from the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center
Workshop Contacts
- National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership: [email protected]
- National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center: Breeze DeJong, [email protected]
Workshop Faculty
Bethany Hamilton JD
Hamilton has spent her career working at the intersection of health equity and social justice. She most recently served as Deputy Director, State Affairs at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), where she led projects focused on expanding Medicaid, defending the Affordable Care Act, and strengthening the ability of community health centers to carry out their mission.
She advanced health care workforce development initiatives as part of NACHC’s Community HealthCorps Program, and began her career as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow at Legal Assistance of Western NY, where she built a re-entry law clinic and co-managed a law student summer associate program. As a former member of NCMLP’s Advisory Council from 2014-2019, she served as a bridge between the two sectors and was part of the team that oversaw NCMLP’s transition to become a federally-funded technical assistance hub for health centers.
Hamilton has worked in every policy environment across the country – from local to federal, red to blue, rural to urban. She has a unique understanding of healthcare and legal services operations, and the challenges and opportunities inherent in each. She sees medical-legal partnership and NCMLP as a vehicle to help dismantle the systemic inequities that have hindered our progress as a country and threaten to further divide us. Hamilton is dedicated to leveraging her knowledge, leadership, and savvy to accelerate opportunities to improve the systems and policies that most affect health and well-being.
Private: Breeze de Jong (he/his)
Breeze de Jong (he/him/his) is the Program Manager for the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute. He graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science in Education and then went on to receive his Master of Science in Learning Experience Design and Educational Technology. Before joining the Fenway team, Breeze worked in education designing and facilitating learning experiences for a diverse array of audiences based on identified organizational and individual goals. As part of this work, he developed and implemented an e-learning program surrounding best practices for supporting transgender students in K-12 settings. Breeze is extremely passionate about transgender health and strives to make healthcare more accessible and inclusive for the LGBTQIA+ community.
Katie Hathaway
Katie is an experienced disability rights attorney and nonprofit leader at mission-focused national health organizations. She is a national expert on the rights and regulation of people with diabetes and has significant experience developing policy, building strategic litigation, and delivering brief legal services while managing a national legal advocacy program for the American Diabetes Association. During her time at ADA, Katie spearheaded multi-decade campaigns to end blanket bans that barred people with diabetes from careers as commercial drivers and pilots, and opened access to education for children with diabetes through legislative, regulatory, and policy change in 34 states.
Katie has designed and delivered national training and technical assistance programs for a variety of audiences including health care professionals, legal professionals, employers, school administrators, lay advocates, and patients and caregivers. As a consultant for the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, Katie developed and hosted the webinar series on Chronic Disease and Disability Discrimination and Long COVID, and moderated NCMLP’s Medicaid Town Hall. She is also co-author of the recent publication “Transgender Health and Medical-Legal Partnerships.”
Sarah Mitnick, MBA (she/her)
Sarah Mitnick is the Associate Director of the Division of Education and Training at The Fenway Institute. In her role she runs the day-to-day operations of the division including staff supervision, project oversight, budget management and operational support. Prior to coming to Fenway, Sarah worked in non-profit advocacy. She has over 15 years of experience supervising staff, managing projects and budgets, fundraising, grant-seeking and providing administrative support. She graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in Environmental Science from Colorado College and an MBA, with concentration in Leadership and Organizational Transformation, from Boston University.
Special Guests
Session 1
Julian Dormitzer
Julian Dormitzer, AGNP-C, is a certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner who has been a primary care provider at Fenway Health since 2019. She earned her MSN from MGH Institute of Health Professions, where she gained clinical experience in primary care, correctional care, and pain management. Prior to becoming a nurse practitioner, Julian gained extensive experience as a clinical research nurse and project director at The Fenway Institute (TFI). Julian continues to maintain an active role at TFI as Project Director of HIV prevention and treatment trials in adolescents. Her clinical interests include Primary Care, Internal Medicine, LGBTQIA+ Health, and HIV/AIDS.
Session 2
Colete Oesterle MD
Colete Oesterle, MD, is a pediatrician at El Rio Health working with patients from birth to age 21. Dr. Oesterle’s special interests include gender affirming medical care for gender diverse youth and families, teen sexual and reproductive health care, and supporting families/youth with neurodevelopmental differences and disabilities.
Gabrielle Ochoa MD
Gabrielle Ochoa, MD is an internist at El Rio Health Center providing primary care (including hormone therapy for medical transition when indicated) for adult patients since 2002. Dr. Ochoa has been a participant in the El Rio transgender provider work group since inception in 2016. Dr. Ochoa is a member of the founding team initiating culture survey at El Rio, resulting in the first HEI score acknowledgement in 2016.
Paul Sacamano PhD MPH NP-C AAHIVS
Paul Sacamano, PhD, MPH, NP-C, AAHIVS provides primary care for persons living with and at risk for HIV at El Rio Health’s Special Immunology Associates. Dr. Sacamano focuses on an integrative approach to primary care that considers the interaction of psychosocial and biomedical domains in achieving optimal health and well-being that is LGBTQIA+ affirming and sex-positive.
