Track Description: Examine multiple obstacles to receiving healthcare in the LGBTQ+ community. Identify successful programs that have overcome obstacles to providing healthcare. Discuss the higher rates of smoking in the LGBTQ+ community and smoking cessation options. Determine peer based programs that lead to improving health outcomes. Session #1: Session Title: A bumpy ride: Navigating healthcare in the LGBTQ+ community. Session Description: Session Learning Objectives: Define barriers to care specific to the LGBTQ+ Community. Discuss the need for LGBTQ+ cultural competence in healthcare settings. Analyze the harmful effects of conversion therapy laws and other policies that harmfully affect healthcare in the LGBT community. Identify policies that will have an affirming effect on access to healthcare in the LGBTQ+ community. Session #2: Session Title: Following the Map: Working together to make change Session Description: Session Learning Objectives: Define methods to increase access to care in the LGBTQ+ community. Discuss successful campaigns to build healthcare capacity for LGBTQ+ healthcare providers. Learn how to collect and use data to enhance LGBTQ+ health equity. Become familiar with a case series of individuals who were denied necessary medical and mental health care while in ICE and/or CBP detention. Session #3: Session Title: Rolling down the window: Smoking Cessation in the LGBTQ+ community Session Description: This session will examine the higher rates of smoking in the LGBTQ+ communities and discuss cessation methods. Session Learning Objectives: Learn trauma-informed perspectives on nicotine and smoking cessation. Utilize tools for improving consumer health decisions. Session #4: Session Title: Enjoying the Ride: The importance of peer support and community in healthcare Session Description: This session will identify sex positive, gender affirming, peer led practices in LGBTQ+ healthcare and prevention. Session Learning Objectives: Examine best practices of community-based programs. Identify pregnancy options for transgender and gender nonconforming/non binary persons. Develop strategies to create peer support opportunities. Explain how heteronormative assumptions contribute to health disparities.
The LGBTQ+ Health track features four sessions that discuss barriers, policies, law, cultural competency, and successful campaigns regarding the LGBTQ+ community. This track will provide viewers with best practices and lessons learned from successful programs from across the country.
Track Learning Objectives:
This session will discuss barriers to healthcare in the LGBTQ+ community and ways of overcoming those barriers.
This session will give examples of successful statewide capacity building collaborations and the importance of data collection in the LGBTQ+ community