LGBTQIA+ People

LGBTQIA+ People

Examples of community and culturally specific interventions:

  • UCLA Health’s guide to provide equitable health care to all patients of all sexual orientations, genders, races, or religions: LGBTQ+ Health Initiative.
  • Improving Care of LGBTQ People of Color: Intersectional approach to patient-centered care for BIPOC LGBTQ people in health care settings.
  • Patient-Centered Transgender Health A Toolkit for  Nurse Practitioner Faculty and Clinicians: CDC resource addressing the stigma and discrimination that many transgender people experience in their day-to-day lives and that can affect their access to and experience of health care.
  • AMA resource to guide physicians seeking to create and maintain an environment where all patients feel welcome, which includes recommended standards of practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender patients and additional resources to assist making a clinical practice LGBTQ-friendly: Creating an LGBTQ-friendly practice.
  • A guide from the perspective of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are LGBTQ+:Our Lives, Our Choice, Our Rights!
  • A guide for health care professionals seeking  to create affirming and inclusive environments for LGBTQ+ youth, addressing  evidence-based, culturally responsive care, connecting LGBTQ+ youth to essential resources, and the need for ongoing learning and professional development personally, organizationally, and institutionally: Supporting & Affirming LGBTQ+ Youth.

Examples of policy and structural change:

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View the digital resource guide, online assessment tool, or a printable version of both. If you have questions, please contact Ericka Burns, Senior Director, Program (Equity), at eburns@nfprha.org.

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