Health Education Training & Outreach

Callen-Lorde strives to promote health and wellness by providing LGBT-affirmative health education to all of our patients. Our mission is to supply the LGBT community with health care information that can empower them to make their own health care decisions. Additionally, we provide health information, training, and education to both communities and institutions outside of Callen-Lorde to ensure that LGBT people receive safe and supportive health care services.

Callen-Lorde's Health Education Training and Outreach Program is designed to disseminate LGBT health information to the LGBT community and those organizations that serve the LGBT community.

The Health Education Training and Outreach Program consists of:

• Providing LGBT sensitivity training to medical, health care, and other social service professionals;
• Conducting health education workshops throughout the five boroughs on LGBT health priorities;
• Recruiting new audiences and new patients through outreach activities such as tabling at health fairs.
• Providing forums for patients and community members to make an impact the services and programs at Callen-Lorde. Click here to learn more about the Transgender Community Advisory Board.

Training topics include:

Callen-Lorde Services LGBT Health Priorities Barriers to LGBT health care Breast and Chest Health (cancer prevention) Lesbian Health Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in Health Care STD/HIV education/prevention

General health and wellness Sexual Health Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Transgender Health and Sensitivity Protocols for Transgender Care HIV Counseling & Testing Certification

 

If you are interested in trainings or outreach activities for your school, health fair, community based organization, health center, or institution, please contact the Community Education Coordinator at 212-271-7291 or healthed@callen-lorde.org.