STAR Center Webinar: “Recovery, Wellness and Transgender Equality: Issues, Discussion and Resources for Increasing Multicultural Competence and Effective Practices for Real Lives”

Date:         June 14, 2012

Time:        3 p.m. Eastern Time

                  2 p.m. Central Time

                  1 p.m. Mountain Time

                   Noon Pacific Time 

 Join the STAR Center for this 90-minute webinar as we:

·         Discover and discuss recovery, wellness, and equality issues with, for, and about Transgender Persons

·         Deepen the understanding of some of the personal, social, societal and other complex and significant factors involved in empowerment by, with, and for Transgender Individuals

·         Expand knowledge of and access to resources, activities, tools and networks for increasing multicultural competence, sensitivity and effective services and program outcomes in healthcare, mental health services, and other arenas

·         Clarify that while a transgender identity can lead to mental health challenges because of societal structures, it is not a mental illness in itself. Furthermore, many transgender individuals are required to be diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder in order to begin the transition process – taking hormones and undergoing sexual reassignment surgery.

Register online here for the June 14 webinar.  Immediately after you complete the registration you will receive an email confirmation from annies@nami.org. The email will include a link entitled “Join the Meeting”. On the day of the webinar you will need to click on that link to bring you to the visual portion of the webinar. The confirmation email will also include the call-in information you will need to hear and participate in the webinar. One day in advance of the webinar, you will receive an automatic reminder from LiveMeeting about the webinar with the log-in information.

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