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Call #4 - Advocating and Referring Transgender Youth
August 16th, 2pm EST, 1PM Central, 11AM PST
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Call Materials
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Advocating and Referring Transgender Youth - Rick Feely
Down to Basics - Michelle O'Brien
Things to Remember When Working with Transgender Clients
Keeping It Real - Michelle O'Brien
SPNS Transgender Resources
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Rick Feely, Program Coordinator
Trans-health Information Project, Philadelphia
Outreach and
Programming:
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Effective outreach strategies
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Other supportive services (housing, medical, drug treatment, etc.)
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Program models that work
Sabina Neem, HIV Prevention Specialist
Attic Youth Center, Philadelphia
Working with other
service providers, making effective referrals and expanding
resources:
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Locating pre-existing resources and allies
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Effective referral mechanisms and techniques
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Expanding resources for transgender populations
Moderator
Ben Singer is a PhD Candidate in English at Rutgers University
working on an ethnographic dissertation: “On the Medical Margins: Transgender
Risk Reduction in Public Health.” Since 1993, he has worked as a consultant and
trainer in the public health sector, specializing in reducing health
disparities through improving access to culturally competent care. He
integrates academic tools, leadership building and group facilitation skills
with evidence-based research, case studies, harm reduction philosophy and
diverse experience in multiple communities. He has applied these techniques to
projects ranging from HIV/AIDS prevention to threshold reduction for access to
healthcare services in government, academic, community and private settings. He
has consulted on local, state and national levels with the CDC, HRSA,
Philadelphia Department of Health, AIDS Activities Coordinating Office, and
other health and human service organizations. Mr. Singer has applied his
knowledge to the successful design and implementation of government-funded
projects that includes founding the Trans-health Information Project (TIP), a
program of Prevention Point Philadelphia and the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS
Education Initiative, with funding by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. From 2002-2004 he served as Director of TIP, contributing to
program design, authoring curricula, managing staff, overseeing utilization of
direct services, and presenting consumer based health information workshops, as
well as technically assisting other local social service providers. In addition
to presenting on transgender issues to government and community-based
organizations across the country, Mr. Singer most recently taught Transgender
Queries in Medicine, Law, Politics and Culture at Barnard College, in New York
City. Contact: bsinger@critpath.org and 215-243-0459
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Transgender Conference Calls: Presenter Biographical Information
Rick Feely is a dual admissions student at Community College
Philadelphia and Temple University, where he is pursuing a BA in English and
Communications. Since 2005, he has served as Director of the Trans-health
Information Project (TIP), a program of Prevention Point Philadelphia and the
Gay and Lesbian AIDS Education Initiative, with funding from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. TIP is a comprehensive HIV prevention and
health education program that provides transgender individuals with accurate
information about safer sex and safer injection techniques, case management
services, and health education workshops for program participants. Mr. Feely
oversees utilization of direct services and educational programs serving
diverse transgender populations in the Philadelphia EMA. For the past five
years, Mr. Feely has frequently spoken on transgender issues to other
Philadelphia service providers, as well as to local, state and national health
and human service agencies. He has delivered presentations on “Transgender and
HIV” issues at the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference and at The Ryan White
National Youth Conference on HIV/AIDS. He is currently the program developer,
curriculum author and trainer of training staff for the Trans-homeless Access
Project (TAP), a municipally funded program in Philadelphia that conducts
transgender cultural competency trainings in city homeless shelters. He also
serves on the Philadelphia Office of HIV Planning’s Community Planning Group,
an advisory body that makes HIV policy recommendations to the City of
Philadelphia, Department of Public Health. Contact:
rick@preventionpointphilly.org and 267-549-6494.
Sabina Neem earned her BA in Anthropology from Barnard
College, and is currently pursuing a dual masters degree in Social Service and
Law and Social Policy, at the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and
Social Research. She is an HIV Prevention Specialist at the Attic Youth Center
in Philadelphia, an organization serving LGBTQ youth. As a Prevention
Specialist, Ms. Neem works with transgender youth on a variety of concerns
including HIV risk, body transformation, family, school, and harassment issues.
Ms. Neem has been an advocate for LGBT health access and social justice for
over a decade, and during that time has provided training for local and
national health and human service organizations on transgender and youth
issues. From 2004 to 2006 she was caseworker for the Trans-health Information
Project, a program of Prevention Point Philadelphia and the Gay and Lesbian
AIDS Education Initiative, with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. There she assisted transgender individuals in
navigating the social service system, changing legal identity documents,
securing housing and employment, in addition to promoting HIV and health
education. From 2004 to 2005 she served on the Philadelphia Trans Health
Conference planning committee. She is currently co-chair of the Mayor’s
Taskforce on Homeless Services, Sexual and Gender Minorities Committee, and in
this capacity advocates for transgender inclusion policies in the Philadelphia
shelter system. She also provides trainer training through the Trans-homeless
Access Project (TAP), a municipally funded program that conducts transgender
cultural competency training in city homeless shelters. Contact:
sabina_transhealth@yahoo.com and 215-545-4331.
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YES Center
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Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Health Policy’s Center for
Health Services Research and Policy (CHSRP) at GWU. He holds an MA in
Humanities from the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his
undergraduate degree in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma and
is currently working on his dissertation “The Effects of Funder Mandated
Organizational Activities on Minority AIDS Community Based-Programs” in the
doctoral program in the School of Business at Capella University. His HIV work
over the last 15 years includes academic research, direct client services,
administration, and project planning, coordination, management, and evaluation
on local, state and Federal levels. Parrish served as executive director of
AIDS Resources of Rural Texas for seven years, project officer for the Program
Development Branch in the HIV/AIDS Bureau at HRSA, and as a project director
for GWU’s Forum for Collaborative HIV Research before coming to CHSRP. During
his tenure as executive director of AIDS Resources of Rural Texas (ARRT), he
developed prevention and HIV counseling/testing programs for at-risk youth. The
programs were designed to provide local community colleges and universities an
opportunity to partner with ARRT to bring these services to their campus
medical clinics. Prevention-to-care programs were then developed by Mr. Parrish
as individuals were identified for services. As the organization grew, Mr.
Parrish designed youth support groups, activities, and outreach programs
specifically designed for hard-to-reach rural youth, especially Hispanic and
African-American adolescents. Mr. Parrish completed his work at ARRT by opening
a Title III medical clinic to provide care to underserved rural and minority
individuals living over 37 counties and 54,000 square miles. During Mr.
Parrish’s service in the HAB, he provided support to grantees preparing to
begin primary medical services to rural and underserved populations, including
60 organizations funded through the Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI). Mr. Parrish
has extensive project manager experience having directed several projects for
the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, including the CDC/OAR-funded “Sex and
Gender in HIV” project and the HRSA/CDC-funded “Quality of HIV Care” project.
Mr. Parrish is co-author of “Quality of HIV Care – Closing the Gap,” a report
on the status of HIV primary care in the US, including for hard-to-reach and
underserved communities. He currently manages projects for the CHSRP including
“Routine HIV Testing in the Clinical Setting” and “External Quality Review of
Medicaid Managed Care Organizations in the District of Columbia.” Contact:
blainep@gwu.edu or 202-530-0286. |
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