Suicide remains a major public health concern in the United States. In 2023, 49,316 people died by suicide - about one death every 11 minutes. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also reports that 12.8 million adults seriously thought about suicide, 3.7 million made a suicide plan, and 1.5 million attempted suicide. Rates are equally concerning among adolescents, with 10% of high school students reporting a suicide attempt in the past year. Routine health care settings are, therefore, an important point of contact for suicide prevention. Many people who later die by suicide have seen a health professional in the year before death, and primary care contact is especially common. At the same time, risk is often invisible unless patients feel safe enough to talk about it. In routine care, one of the most important tasks is not simply identifying who may be at risk, but creating conditions in which disclosure becomes more likely.
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Workforce Well-being: Multilevel Strategies to Mitigate Burnout and Promote Retention – Session 2
In this 2-part webinar series, we will discuss promising strategies that support both the well-being and retention of the healthcare workforce. Attendees will learn how to build an organization that prioritizes well-being at individual, interpersonal, and organizational levels. Hosted in partnership between The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved.
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- Behavioral Health
Workforce Well-being: Multilevel Strategies to Mitigate Burnout and Promote Retention – Session 1
In this 2-part webinar series, we will discuss promising strategies that support both the well-being and retention of the healthcare workforce. Attendees will learn how to build an organization that prioritizes well-being at individual, interpersonal, and organizational levels. Hosted in partnership between The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved.
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- Behavioral Health
A Guide to Helping Someone Navigate Disordered Eating
After completing this module, you will be able to…
- Recognize disordered eating patterns.
- Offer non-confrontational support to someone struggling with disordered eating using motivational interviewing techniques.
- Collaboratively plan harm reduction strategies with someone struggling with disordered eating.
- Understand how sexual orientation and gender identity can affect body image and disordered eating.
- Affirm people who identify as LGBTQIA+.
Disclaimer: This content is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. In case of a medical emergency, please contact 911.
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- Behavioral Health
Care for Gender Diverse Patients with Eating Disorders and Mental Illnesses
The purpose of this learning module is to provide you with an understanding of key considerations when engaging with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) patients with eating disorders (EDs). TGD patients experience elevated rates of disordered eating. This module will explain unique experiences and obstacles to recovery among TGD patients and outline actionable strategies to provide culturally humble care. This module will also discuss serious mental illnesses that may co-occur among TGD patients with EDs. At the end of each module chapter, you will be presented with review questions to refresh your learning.
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- Behavioral Health
- Transgender Health
Reducing Suicide Risk for Patients at Health Centers
This webinar will focus on strategies and best practices for health centers to reduce suicide risk among patients. We will discuss risk factors and warning signs of suicidality and explore the critical role of health center staff in identifying and intervening with at-risk patients. Additionally, we will provide evidence-based suicide prevention practices, including strategies for collaborating with community resources.
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- Behavioral Health
Emerging Depression Treatments for LGBTQIA+ People
Presented by Dr. Cristina Cusin and Dr. Alex Keuroghlian, this webinar will review the current evidence on the safety and efficacy of ketamine therapy for patients with treatment resistant major depressive disorder. We will present different methods for delivering ketamine and referring patients to treatment and explore other emerging depression treatments. These treatments will be discussed through the lens of providing high-quality, culturally responsive care for LGTBQIA+ patients.
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- Behavioral Health
Creating Welcoming and Affirming Clinical Studies for LGBTQIA+ Participants Toolkit
Purpose: This toolkit provides strategies, tools, and learning resources to advance LGBTQIA+ inclusion in clinical research studies across the world.
Creating Welcoming and Affirming Clinical Studies for LGBTQIA+ Participants Toolkit
This toolkit focuses on the implementation stage of training sites to successfully engage and retain LGBTQIA+ participants. Within the toolkit, you will find information on foundational LGBTQIA+ concepts and terminology, best practices for affirming transgender and gender diverse participants, and recommendations for collecting SOGI data as part of participant demographics. By learning these competencies, all study staff can become skilled and confident in supporting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ participants, and ultimately, can contribute to improving health equity for LGBTQIA+ communities.
Cultural Adaptation of Measures and Tools for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data Collection
This publication was designed as a companion resource to Ready, Set, Go! Guidelines and Tips for Collecting Patient Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) to explain the importance of SOGI data collection to identify and address the unique needs of sexual and gender minority patient populations, with special consideration for culturally and linguistically diverse patients who are part of LGBTQIA+ communities. This guide will help healthcare staff to identify procedures to translate and adapt SOGI data collection questions and patient education materials for multilingual patient populations accurately and affirmatively, with considerations for Spanish-speaking LGBTQIA+ patients as an example. The recommendations in this publication will assist health teams in planning next actions to implement culturally and linguistically affirming practices that are community informed and integrated throughout the health experiences of multilingual, multiethnic, and racially diverse patients.
