LGBT People of Color Health Summit (NY)
2008 LGBT POC Health Summit
Unity through Diversity: Shifting Our Focus
In Our Own Voices, Inc and The New York State Black Gay Network, Inc will be hosting the first statewide LGBT People of Color Health Summit on February 21-24, 2008. The Health Summit’s theme is: Unity through Diversity: Shifting Our Focus This inaugural event is designed to provide a forum for the articulation of issues and recommendations related to health and human service interventions for LGBT people of color. Scholars, administrators, activists and students are invited to share their knowledge and skills with the hope that this interchange will result in a compendium of future strategies designed to address the needs of LGBT people of color. A distinguishing feature of the health summit is the inclusion of planning strategy workshops to enable presenters and participants to frame the presentations and conversations into a health and human service strategy for subsequent policy and programmatic undertakings.
The summit will focus on five major conceptual tracks:
• Health and Wellness
• Substance Abuse
• Spirituality
• Political Advocacy
• A day long institute on Transgender issues
One major outcome of this undertaking will be the publication of a summit report highlighting the major observations and current strategies related to the above topics with attached recommendations for future research, political advocacy, and community based interventions.
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