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2STLGBQIA+ Health Conference
May 3, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Sat May 3, 2025 Health Conference for 2STLGBQIA+ People and our accomplices/allys. Register to attend here : https://givebutter.com/Qxjacm
Tentative schedule and content lineup:
9am Registration
9:45 am Welcome
10:15am-11:15 Workshops :
Facilitating Community for Trans Clients in Rural Areas: The Role of Therapists in Building Support Networks with Kallum Yaroshenko, LCMHC (he/him) and Micah O’Connor (he/him)
Goodbye Burnout: Growing our Resilient Selves with Auburn Watersong (she/her)
Explore & Express Values with Conversation and Collage with Willow Stein (they/she)
Harm Reduction with Martina Anderson (she/they)
11:30-12:30 Workshops : Gender Affirming Care Panel and Q&A- with Drs Anja Jokela, Rachel Inker, Eli Goldberg (he/him) , & Erica Gibson (she/her) Beginner’s Guide to Surviving Technodystopia with Mica (they/he) The Story of Our Numbers with Madison Murphy Barney (she/they) Reimagining Queer Mental Health Care: Unpacking Pathologized Identities and Systemic Oppression with Neilah Rovinsky (she/her)
12:30-1:30 LUNCH
1:50-2:50pm Workshops :
Alternatives to Suicide with Natan Cohen (they/them) and Claudia Wilson (they/them)
Somatic First Aid Practices for Unstable Times with chris siegriest (they/them)
Trans Femme Surgery Show and Tell with Megan Roberts (she/her)
What every clinician needs to know about polyamory and ethical non-monogamy with Dr. Ami Lynch, LCSW (she/her)
3-4pm Workshops :
Overdose Prevention & Response with VT CARES staff
Healthcare For Everyone with Teal Church (she/her) and Ishtar Collective 30 min session 3-3:30
2STLGBQIA+ Vermont Health & Wellness Report with kell arbor (fae/faer) 30 min session 3:30-4
Co-Working Digital Cleanse Space with Mica (they/he)
Care Worker Care with Kheya Ganguly (she/her)
10am-3pm Everyone’s Books selling and resource non profit tablers in Judd Hall
10-3pm community care space in library with herbal tea, tinctures with rose core collective
10-2 cranio sacral in Library with Chrys Tsang (they/them)
11-3 acupuncture in Library with Caiius Clark (they/them)
12-3pm free STI testing and vaccines with UVM Medical Center in Judd Hall
5pm after party hang out at Babes Bar Bethel
This Conference, organized by Out In The Open, Outright Vermont and Pride Center of Vermont, will create a collaborative space to host the many intersections of health and wellness work within the 2STLGBQIA+ people-centered care models. There will be healthcare provider specific content, community learning/practice spaces, lived-experience storytelling, and social convergence spaces that help strengthen all our relationships. An additional aim of the Conference is to increase capacity and ensure access to quality, culturally-affirming medical and mental health care for traditionally underserved communities, including 2STLGBQIA+ people who hold intersecting identities.
COVID-19 precautions:
-all attendees will be asked to COVID-19 test 3 days prior to event
-day of masking in indoor spaces
-COVID-19 testing day of to unmask
-outdoor session/eating spaces
-KN95 masks and covid tests provided onsite.
Got a session proposal? Email kell to connect via kell@pridecentervt.org