The “new normal” must include affirming healthcare. That’s why we’re now offering all of our workshops and trainings as webinars. Recently Lead Trainer Ramona Peel conducted a live webinar titled, “Combatting Bias via Cultural Humility: Making Historical Sites More Inclusive for the LGBTQ+ Community,” with AmeriCorps members at the Ohio History Connection. Here’s what one participant had to say: “I am so glad we still had the opportunity to learn how historical sites can combat bias with cultural humility, even though the in-person training had to
The Equitas Health Institute Provider Guide is a listing of Ohio medical and social service providers who offer varying degrees and types of LGBTQ+ affirming care. Now you can search the guide by geographic region on our website! Providers listed in this guide answered “yes” to at least one of the following questions. When searching the guide, you’ll use tthe corresponding symbols to determine the nature of LGBTQ+ affirming services each provider offers. PROVIDER COLOR KEY: Has had LGBTQ-specific cultural competency training. Have you received any
We are excited to announce we are accepting abstracts for the 2020 Transforming Care Conference between April 6, 2020 and May 22, 2020. Transforming Care has come to be known as the most comprehensive conference on LGBTQ+ HIV health equity in the country. Conference participants tell us that what makes TCC so transformative is the mix of people—researchers, practitioners, activists, community members all broadening each other’s perspectives. This year’s TCC theme will be The Invisibles. SUBMIT A PROPOSAL We seek proposals presented by and geared toward medical
When Nationwide Children’s Hospital developed the new app, VARIAT Sim (Virtual and Augmented Reality Implicit Association Training), they called on the expertise of the Equitas Health Institute to guide their module addressing implicit biases toward sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in a healthcare setting. The VARIAT Sim app provides healthcare workers an in-person, onsite perspective to promote empathy and decrease implicit bias. By successfully completing the SOGI module, Medicaid providers will: Increase their awareness of implicit biases. Learn how biases and social determinants of
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Another Trump Administration Attack Upon Trans Folks – And What You Can Do About It The Trump Administration is continuing its sustained attack on trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. Coming on the heels of the trans military ban, and a proposal to allow discrimination on the basis of gender identity in homeless shelters, is a new attempt to strip trans folks of rights they gained under the Affordable Care Act. Before the creation of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), many insurance plans
National Transgender HIV Testing Day By Ramona Peel, Lead Trainer With actions like the transgender troop ban, the current administration is directly targeting trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming folks and putting their health, wellness, and overall safety at risk. In addition to these sort of direct attacks, this administration’s attempts to weaken access to health care also puts additional stress on a population that already has an above-average need for health and wellness services. Thankfully, Equitas Health, along with a number of other organizations across Ohio,
2019 LGBT Health Awareness Week By Ramona Peel, Lead Trainer This is LGBT Health Awareness Week, and the staff of the Institute would like to tell you about the health and wellness challenges facing this community, and what we are doing to try to improve health outcomes for LGBTQ+ folks in Ohio and beyond. First of all, it’s important to note the growth of the LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual/Aromantic, Pansexual, and more) community. A 2018 Gallup poll showed that the percentage of the US
Marginalized on Valentine’s Day By Ramona Peel, Lead Trainer This Thursday is Valentine’s Day, and many of us who are in relationships are scrambling to buy gifts and make reservations at our favorite restaurants. It’s a holiday that traditionally has centered and celebrated monogamous straight cisgender couples. However, as gay, lesbian and bisexual folks have become more visible, and their relationships have gained more public acceptance and legal status, they’ve become more able to openly celebrate their love on Valentine’s Day as well. While that is
UPDATE: Trans Military Service in the United States By Ramona Peel On Tuesday, January 22 the US Supreme Court lifted a number of lower court injunctions that were preventing President Trump’s proposed ban on transgender military service from going into effect. In brief, here’s where things stand: The ban still has not gone into effect, because the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision yesterday did not cover all of the various injunctions that had been filed. However, it is likely that those injunctions will be lifted as
Rural Voices: Caring for Trans and Gender Diverse Communities in Rural America June 7, 2018 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Rural Voices is a day-long summit for health and social service professionals to learn how to improve care for transgender and gender diverse people living in rural America. The learning objectives for Rural Voices are: Develop a foundational knowledge about gender diversity, including health needs and disparities. Increase skills and confidence for providing medical and behavioral health services to transgender and gender diverse communities. Identify strategies to
The Atomic Girl Who Roamed the Buckeye State By Ramona Peel, Lead Trainer So… What does a lead trainer do? Actually, let me start earlier. I grew up next door to one of the largest nuclear waste sites in America. Just down the road from the birthplace of the Nagasaki bomb is Richland, Washington. I went to high school there. I was a Bomber. Yup, we’re the Richland Bombers. Google that. Crazy, right? I know – I’m totally mortified. On top of that, eastern Washington isn’t
A Note from the Director of the Institute for LGBTQ Health Equity By Julia Applegate, Director Welcome to the first issue of the blog. The Institute, as we like to call it for short, is the education, research and community engagement arm of Equitas Health. Equitas Health is a health care delivery system with 17 offices in 11 cities all across the state of Ohio serving 67,000 individuals on an annual basis. With nearly 400 employees, our parent organization employs nurses, social workers, physicians, pharmacists, HIV prevention