Training Video
Enhancing Digital Health Literacy for Sexual and Gender Minority Communities: Using Information to Lower Barriers to Healthcare for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex People and Allies
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Links from the Video
- LGBT Poverty in the United StatesUCLA Williams School of Law
- MedlinePlusCovers all health topics, including LGBTQ health
- Trans LifelineSupport for the Trans community, by the Trans community
- HIV Risk Reduction ToolFind HIV testing and prevention resources
- HIV Risk and PreventionFrom the Centers for Disease Control, covers PeP and PreP
- Out2EnrollResources for Sexual and Gender Minorities to navigate insurance, legal rights, dealing with discrimination & more
- healthcare.govAffordable Care Act insurance marketplace
- Support Lines - LGBTQIA Resource CenterListing of support lines that are LGBTQ+ friendly
- The Trevor ProjectWorld’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth
- Safe Zone ProjectOnline training
- SAGEAdvocacy and services for LGBTQ elders
- PFLAGOrganization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies.
Reporting Health Care Discrimination
Health care discrimination is handled as a safety issue by several governmental and private agencies. The links below offer reporting to the state of Illinois, federal agencies, and private health care accrediting agencies.
Health Professional Education
Continuing medical education on LGBTQ topics for health care providers is offered at the sites below.
- GLMAHealth Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality (previously known as the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association) is the world's largest and oldest association of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) healthcare professionals
- Queer MEDucationA platform to educate medical professionals and the general population on LGBTQ and nonbinary health care
- National LGBTQIA+ Health Education CenterFrom the Fenway Institute, provides education for health care providers on LGBTQ+ issues
