{"id":227,"date":"2007-12-22T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T14:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2007-12-22T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T14:04:54","slug":"lgbt-people-of-color-health-summit-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"LGBT People of Color Health Summit (NY)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.2008nyslgbtpocsummit.com\/\">2008 LGBT POC Health Summit<\/a><br \/>\nUnity through Diversity: Shifting Our Focus<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inourownvoices.org\">In Our Own Voices, Inc<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nysbgn.org\/\">The New York State Black Gay Network, Inc<\/a> will be hosting the first statewide LGBT People of Color Health Summit on February 21-24, 2008. The Health Summit\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The summit will focus on five major conceptual tracks:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Health and Wellness<br \/>\n\u2022 Substance Abuse<br \/>\n\u2022 Spirituality<br \/>\n\u2022 Political Advocacy<br \/>\n\u2022 A day long institute on Transgender issues<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">For more info, click the image:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.2008nyslgbtpocsummit.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/lgbthealthsummit.jpg?w=214\" alt=\"lgbthealthsummit.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s theme is: Unity through Diversity: Shifting Our Focus This inaugural event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMmJz-3F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=106","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":0},"title":"Book Reading: Their Own Receive Them Not (NY)","author":"","date":"April 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Riverside Church\u2019s Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns Sponsors Book Reading About Black Gay Christians Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns, a ministry of The Riverside Church, will sponsor a book reading, panel discussion, signing and reception for a provocative new book, Their Own Receive Them Not, African American Lesbians and\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48,"url":"http:\/\/www.kuma2.net\/blog\/?p=48","url_meta":{"origin":227,"position":1},"title":"Check It Out &#8211; JengoTV","author":"","date":"December 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"JengoTV emerged from the overwhelming response and popularity of Inside Blast, an LGBT of color news and entertainment show created in February 2006. 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