The Foundations of Culturally Appropriate Integrated Services for LGBT Individuals

Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2:00-3:30pm Eastern/11:00am-12:30pm Pacific

Integrated primary care and behavioral health providers can create culturally appropriate, highly accessible integrated care to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community with behavioral health conditions. Join CIHS and the CDC National Behavioral Health Network for Tobacco & Cancer Control to discuss ways to evaluate current organizational barriers to accessing care, strategies for reducing these barriers, and actionable steps for implementing culturally appropriate services. Review how to internally evaluate your agency’s services, and leave with an understanding of best practices and resources to increase engagement efforts with the LGBT community.

Presenters: Andrea Washington, LCSW-S, SUD and Integrated Care Coordinator, Montrose Center; Dr. Scout, Director, Network for LGBT Health Equity at CenterLink; and National LGBT Health Education Center, The Fenway Institute

Register Today at www.integration.samhsa.gov/about-us/webinars

NIH Listen Session on LGBT Health

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Director, The Fenway Institute's Network for LGBT Health Equity

Sometimes you have throwaway days, then sometimes you have really high impact ones, right? Well, today was about as high impact as it gets. I've been nudging NIH to open communications with LGBT researchers for years and today I had the distinct pleasure of being in the room as they launched their first ever LGBT research listening session. Considering that agency has about $40 Billion dollars in research funds, and considering they are easily the leading health research institution in the world, I'd say anytime we get to talk LGBTI health with the top mgmt for an hour and a half is pretty useful. Understand, many LGBTI researchers never even get to speak to these folk once. We got to sit there and yak and yak about what we think they should do on LGBTI health. And we heard there were over a hundred more watching and sending in comments on the videocast.

The day held a couple of surprises too. First, they hired a new guy who's in charge of getting more LGBTI staff on board, Albert Smith. Literally his business card reads "LGBTI Program Manager" at NIH. Pretty sweet eh? Since we know how internal champions really move issues, now's the time for us to recruit great new folk to NIH. Second, NIH really showed their true commitment to keeping the information flowing by announcing that they had just released an RFI, or Request For Information. This literally declares it open season for all of us to give our input on LGBTI health research from now til October. See the RFI here.

 

And of course we all brought up excellent suggestions: invest in career development, data collection, create an office of LGBTI health, do more tobacco research, make sure the program managers are as welcoming as the mgmt wants them to be, do more on Two Spirit, intersex, transgender people. Look at intersectionality more. Put out anal cancer guidelines. If you weren't one of the hundred plus watching online... they'll put the webcast up in a few days, and we'll update with the link.

Summer Institute in LGBT Population Health

On July 16-August 10, 2012, The Center for Population Research in LGBT Health at The Fenway Institute and the Department of Community Health Sciences at Boston University School of Public Health are hosting a Summer Institute in LGBT Population Health in Boston, Massachusetts.

The Institute will provide participants with foundational training in interdisciplinary theory, knowledge and methods for conducting population research in sexual and gender minority health. Current doctoral or Masters’ students and recent doctoral program graduates are eligible to apply for one of 18 spots in the program.

To be held over four weeks at Boston University and Fenway Health, the Summer Institute will include several components:

1. A dynamic Cornerstone Seminar in LGBT Health and Social Life that will overview key topics, methods, and perspectives in the interdisciplinary study of LGBT Health
2. Short-course instruction in statistics and quantitative data analysis at the intermediate and advanced-intermediate levels
3. Hands-on training in analysis of LGBT population health data in the Interactive Data Lab.

There is no cost for tuition and participants may apply for free housing* in Boston University dormitories during the Institute. The Summer Institute is funded by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (grant number R25HD064426).
Please visit www.lgbtpopcenter.org/training to download the Call for Applications. Applications will be accepted until April 16, 2012. For more information, please call 617-927-6348 or email summerinstitute@lgbtpopcenter.org.

*There are a limited number of slots for free housing available. Per grant funding guidelines, free housing is only available to U.S. citizens, non-citizen nationals of the U.S., or those with legal permanent resident status. No temporary or student visas allowable. Non-citizens may apply for the program, but must cover their own housing and transportation costs.

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