In celebration of Pride Month, June 2024, Innovations Institute's Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity has partnered with the Mid-America Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) on a Pride Month Podcast Series with four unique episodes of their Prevention Perk podcast on health disparities and gender affirming care. New episodes are released each Thursday in June. Prevention Perk is hosted by Steve Miller, CRPS, Project Director of the Mid-Atlantic PTTC.
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Episode 1
Why Focus on LGBTQ+ People? Listen Now: s.uconn.edu/pridepodcast24
In this week’s episode (Prevention Perk Episode 98), Steve Miller and his guest, Angela Weeks, PhD, Director of the Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity, talk about equity language and acronyms and the goals of the Center of Excellence. They discuss the disparities affecting LGBTQ+ youth in public systems including child welfare and juvenile justice. Angela also provides context and causality of discrimination for the negative health outcomes the population faces including homelessness, substance use, depression, and behavioral health. They discuss the coming-out process, social hardships faced by the community, and resilience.
Epidsode 2
Supporting LGBTQ+ Older Adults & Understanding Historical Trauma Listen Now: s.uconn.edu/pridepodcast24
In this week’s episode (Prevention Perk Episode 99), Steve Miller and his guest, Larry Bryant, PhD, discuss the historical trauma that LGBTQ+ older adults have endured. Larry is parttime Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State and Capella Universities with a wealth of experience and knowledge in substance use disorders, HIV/AIDS prevention and education, DEI and antiracism training and sexual orientation education. Larry shares his personal journey of loss, resilience, and triumph. He discusses the tremendous loss of young men, including young black men, due to the AIDS/HIV epidemic of the 1980s amid tremendous stigma, homophobia, and racism. Larry talks about the intersection of racism and homophobia and its impact on substance use recovery for black LGBTQ+ people. He also highlights the contributions of black LGBTQ+ contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, the Gay Civil Rights Movement, and the gains in health care equity.
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