Trans and Gender Diverse Community Track

Knowledge and Skills Building Workshops

CO09 - Building a Trans Centered Vision for Healthcare Access

Presenter(s)

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  Karter Booher

  Executive Director
  Ingersoll Gender Center

  Nothing to disclose

Co-Presenter(s)

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  Mattie Mooney, Healthcare Access Manager

  Healthcare Access Manager
  Ingersoll Gender Center

  Nothing to disclose

In this workshop we will share our process to build a bold vision for the future of our healthcare access work and help workshop attendees build their own plans to create visions for their communities. So often our policy, advocacy and direct service work is reactive to a broken system or potentially devastating policies. Our work to create a vision for healthcare access for transgender and diverse communities acts to counteract that and centers on a proactive vision for healthcare access that is driven by those most impacted.

We will share top level results from our survey, our organizing process and framework we used while supporting workshop participants to build their own frameworks for driving their healthcare access work. Workshop participants can take this model to their communities to build a healthcare system that helps transgender and gender diverse people feel at home in their bodies.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Workshop participants will learn how to identify structural and community specific barriers to care.
• Workshop participants will build their understandings of the power and process of community driven participatory research.
• Workshop participants will begin outlining what a similar organizing project in their communities could look like.

1. Workshop participants will learn how to identify structural and community specific barriers to care.
2. Workshop participants will build their understandings of the power and process of community driven participatory research.
3. Workshop participants will begin outlining what a similar organizing project in their communities could look like.