Upcoming Webinar: LGBTQIA+ Competency in Healthcare Settings (August 9, 2021)
Posted August 6, 2021This is an event in the MidAtlantic AETC’s summer virtual event series focusing on the LGBTQIA+ communities. These 90 minute zoom sessions in June, July, and August will explore provider self-care, trauma, stigma, HIV, and race in LGBTQIA+ communities and LGBTQIA+ identifying healthcare professionals. Other featured topics will include HIV prevention and LGBTQIA+ competency in healthcare settings.
Title: LGBTQIA+ Competency in Healthcare Settings
Date: August 9, 2021
Time: 3:30 pm PST
Speaker: Lee C. Westgate, MBA, MSW, LCSW-C
Objectives:
- Identify some of the structural, family systems, and psychosocial challenges as well as health disparities sexual and gender minority people may encounter
- Describe importance of providing services to LGBTQIA+ individuals with and without HIV from an intersectional, cultural humility perspective
- Discuss concrete action steps for improving care for LGBTQIA+ individuals in the fields of HIV, primary care, and others
Please click here to register for this webinar
