LGBT Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. The YMSM+LGBT COE would like to encourage you to visit our archived webinars where you can learn more about the LGBT community. We have webinars available on many topics including Creating an LGBT Affirming Organization, Supporting Change for LGBTQ Young Adults, and Working with and for Two-Spirit Individuals. To learn more please visit LGBT Webinar Recordings.
Please join us on Friday, April 20, 2018 for our first webinar of 2018! The webinar “Meeting the Unique Needs of LGBT Seniors” will explore poverty within the LGBT community, the unique legal needs of the LGBT senior community and best practices for providers working with LGBT older adults.
This interactive webinar will be facilitated by Denny Chan, Staff Attorney from Justice in Aging.
The YMSM + LGBT COE would like to wish you all a very Happy Holiday Season!
Information on our upcoming quarterly webinar series will be sent out in early 2018.
Thank you for your support of the YMSM+LGBT COE!
LGBT Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan. As part of CSAT’s recognition of LGBT Pride Month the YMSM+LGBT COE would like to encourage you to visit our archived webinars where you can learn more about the LGBT community. We have webinars available on many topics including Creating an LGBT Affirming Organization, Supporting Change for LGBTQ Young Adults, and Working with and for Two-Spirit Individuals. To learn more please visit LGBT Webinar Recordings.
We are also proud to present a 2-part webinar series featuring four model programs serving YMSM of color. The programs are SAMHSA Targeted Capacity Expansion (TCE) HIV grantee award winners who will share their successes and lessons learned providing substance use disorder treatment and HIV prevention services. The first webinar will be held on June 23, 2017 and we will hear from Jorge Diaz from the Nuevo Amanecer/New Dawn program at Bienestar Human Services and Wendell Glenn from the ADAM Project at Behavioral Health Services. The second webinar will be held on July 28, 2017 and will feature Donald Powell and Sean Underwood from Project Aspire at Exponents and Anthony Contreras from Getting OFF! at Tarzana Treatment Center. Click here for more information!
On June 6, 2017 Dr. Freese presented at Coping with Hope: HIV in Uncertain Times. This conference was sponsored by the Los Angeles County HIV Mental Health Task Force. His presentation focused on addressing substance abuse risk in LGBT populations. Please visit our Facebook page to watch the hour long presentation and learn more our about out the trainings we provide.
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The YMSM+LGBT Center of Excellence hosted a Training of Trainers (ToT) event for Spanish speakers on March 30-31, 2017 in New York. The Center of Excellence is excited to have more trainers available to conduct our new training “A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals (2nd Edition)”.
Last week our National Advisory Board gathered in Rockville, Maryland at the SAMHSA headquarters. We spent a day and a half discussing plans for the future – including upcoming webinar topics in 2017. We look forward to more great things in 2017!
The Center of Excellence held it’s third Training of Trainer (TOT) events last week in Mystic Lake, Minnesota. Trainers from all over the country met over a 2-day period and learned about the curriculum “A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Individuals (2nd Edition)”. We now have over 60 trainers available who are able to deliver this curriculum to agencies and providers across the nation.
Thank you to everyone who applied to attend a TOT event – and to all who helped spread the word!
The National American Indian and Alaska Native ATTC is excited to share its most recent newsletter, a special issue focusing on the Native LGBTQ/Two Spirit population. In this newsletter we celebrate the strength and resilience of the Native LGBTQ community. Special guest writers include: Rick Haverkate, MPH Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians; Apacuar/Tutmalria Larry Kairaiuak, Yup’ik; and Michaela Grey, MPH, Dine´. Each bring their own expertise and experiences to this newsletter.
In this issue, the National AI/AN ATTC also introduces its upcoming curriculum titled “Honoring Our Relations: Increasing Knowledge on Native LGBTQ/Two Spirit Wellness”. This curriculum is designed to help increase provider’ knowledge and ability to respond to the challenges of Native LGBTQ/Two Spirit individuals.
We hope that you enjoy this special edition newsletter which can accessed at this link:
AI/AN ATTC Special Issue Newsletter
On June 24, 2016 President Obama designated Stonewall a National Monument. This is America’s first LGBT national park site.
The Stonewall uprising in 1969 is considered one of the most pivotal events in the LGBT rights movement.
To read more please visit: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/06/24/presidential-proclamation-establishment-stonewall-national-monument and https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
