
LGBT Health and Wellness Conference
Purpose
Provide culturally appropriate evidence-based practices that can be replicated and implemented by others while offering networking opportunities to connect participants.
Target Audience
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in the state of Iowa. Healthcare facilities, community-based organizations, institutions of higher education, and faith-based organizations. Healthcare providers, health educators, social workers, mental health providers, or other professionals working directly with the LGBT community within health and wellness.
Objectives
- Educate health care professionals and clinics, faith/community organizations, in cultural competency for LGBTQ people.
- Educate members of the LGBTQ community on methods to assist clinics and health professionals in becoming culturally competent to LGBTQ people.
- Offer networking opportunities for attendees.
- Increase resource availability throughout the state.
- Address specific needs of LGBTQ people who are also of a racial or ethnic group.
Agenda
9 am | Registration | ||||
9:45 am | Welcome | ||||
10 am | Overview of LGBT Health: Panel Discussion
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11 am | Break | ||||
11:15 am | Concurrent Breakout Sessions
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12 pm | Lunch and Yoga | ||||
1 pm | iO Tillett Wright: Fifty Shades of Gay (Video) “Artist iO Tillett Wright has photographed 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LBGTQ spectrum and asked many of them: Can you assign a percentage to how gay or straight you are? Most people, it turns out, consider themselves to exist in the gray areas of sexuality, not 100% gay or straight. Which presents a real problem when it comes to discrimination: Where do you draw the line?” We hope you’ll find it interesting and inspiring as we all work toward equality. | ||||
1:30 pm | Concurrent Breakout Sessions
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2:15 pm | Break | ||||
2:30 pm | Keynote Address
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3:30 pm | Networking | ||||
4 pm | Adjourn |
Social Media
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/lgbthealthia
- Twitter – twitter.com/LGBTHealthIA
- #LGBTHealthIA
Available Credit
- 3.50 CE Contact Hour(s)