2024 Northeast Alliance for LGBTQ+ Health Conference
Details
Description
The Northeast Alliance for LGBTQ+ Health Conference is an annual gathering of healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and wellness of the LGBTQ+ community as it pertains to HIV, STIs and sexual health, mental health, substance use, and other social determinants of health.
This year's two-day conference will be taking place at The Provincetown Commons, located in Provincetown, Massachusetts on October 10th and 11th, 2024.
This year's agenda will feature interactive and didactic presentations on an array of topics like: LGBTQ+ youth services, DoxyPEP, incarcerated transfolx, HIV and aging, substance use among the LGBTQ+ community, and an LGBTQ & HIV advocacy workshop.
All meals will be provided for during the course of the conference. Attendees are expected to cover the costs of their transportation and lodging. Upon registration, participants will receive an email with detailed information where they can book their stay at one of the two reserved lodging locations.
Please Note: Due to the limited training space, we politely ask agencies to limit the number of staff representing their agency to 1 or 2 attendees. Attendees registering with an agency that already has 2 participants will be placed on a waitlist and removed from the event's registration to allow space for other attendees.
For more information, please reach out to the Program Director of the Connecticut Regional Partner of the NEAETC, Dante Gennaro, at Dante.Gennaro@yale.edu.
Intended Audience
Frontline healthcare workers who provide direct healthcare services to the LGBTQ+ community.
Targeted Populations
A variety of the listed populations will be discussed at this event.
- Adolescents (ages 13 to 17)
- Young Adults (ages 18 to 24)
- Older Adults (ages 50 and over)
- Asian
- Black or African American
- Hispanic or LatinX
- Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
- Women
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual
- Transgender, Non-Binary, Other Gender
- People Experiencing Homlessness
- People with Incarceration Experience
- People Who Inject Drugs (PWID)
Materials
Topics
A variety of the listed topics will be discussed at this event.
- Behavioral Prevention
- Harm Reduction/Safe Injection
- HIV Transmission Risk Assessment
- Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP, occupational and non-occupational)
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
- Treatment as Prevention (e.g., U=U)
- Sexual Health History Taking
- Aging and HIV
- Antiretroviral treatment adherence, including viral load suppression
- HIV diagnosis (i.e. HIV testing)
- HIV Epidemiology
- Linkage to Care
- Retention and/or re-engagement in care
- Cervical cancer screening, including HPV
- Hepatitis C
- Medication-assisted therapy for substance use disorders (i.e. buprenorphine, methadone, and/or naltrexone)
- Mental health disorders
- Primary care screenings
- Reproductive health, including preconception planning
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Substance use disorders
- Opioid use disorder
- Health or Wellness Maintenance
- Stigma or discrimination
- Cultural Competency/Cultural Humility
- Community linkages
- Care coordination
- Organizational infrastructure
- Organizational needs assessment
- Gender-affirming care