Event Schedule
Preconferences
Monday 10 am – 12 pm We Breathe
Opportunity to discuss the intersections between tobacco-use and broader aspects of LGBTQ+ health. We will explore how the health disparities connected to tobacco-use are rooted in racial, gender, and economic inequities. Open to LGBTQ community members and allies.
Monday 1 pm – 3 pm #Out4MentalHealth
This is a closed session for #Out4MentalHealth Project Partners advocating for mental health equity across California.
Rainbow Connection
Monday 4 pm – 5 pm
Opportunity for LGBTQ Californians, policy makers, and foundation representatives to learn more about statewide LGBTQ health and human services work being done right now. LGBTQ leaders will be sharing via 5-10 minute QTalks. This session is open to everyone who supports the health and wellness of LGBTQ communities and allies are welcome.
Community Building
Tuesday 2pm – 5 pm
-Panel: Recruiting and Maintaining LGBTQ+ Volunteers
-By Us For Us Skill Sharing Discussions
Wednesday 2 pm – 5 pm
-Workshop: Comms Crash Course
-By Us For Us Skill Sharing Discussions
Thursday 2 pm – 5 pm
-Panel: Finding Funding
-By Us For Us Sharing Discussions
Collective Action
Friday 4 pm – 5 pm
-Keynote Speaker
We are honored and excited to have Shakina Nayfack as our 2021 Convening Keynote Speaker. Shakina will be sharing about her own mental health journey and offering her hopes and vision for a future where holistic mental and physical wellness is a right for every queer person. Learn more about Shakina below.
Most recently Shakina made Television history starring in NBC’s Connecting… She can also be seen in Amazon’s GLAAD Award Winning Transparent Musicale Finale, which she helped write and produce, and Hulu’s Difficult People, for which she was a writing consultant. Her play Chonburi International Hotel and Butterfly Club premiered on Audible in 2020 in collaboration with Williamstown Theatre Festival and was recognized with a 2021 Drama League Award for Best Audio Theatre Production. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Factory, where she helped to develop hundreds of new musicals including Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize winning A Strange Loop and her own autobiographical glam rock odyssey, Manifest Pussy. Shakina is also a long-time LGBT+ harm reduction and public health advocate. She holds an MFA and PhD from UC Riverside and a BA in Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz, where she focused on using theatre and film for HIV and overdose prevention, sex worker wellness, and queer youth empowerment.
The LGBTQ Health and Human Services Convening would not be possible without the following organizational sponsors:
We Breathe, the Statewide Coordinating Center to reduce LGBTQ tobacco-related disparities. We Breathe provides expertise on working with LGBTQ communities, preventing and reducing tobacco use among LGBTQ Californians, and addressing tobacco-related health disparities within LGBTQ communities, to help funded projects reach their goal to eliminate tobacco use by 2035 in California.
#Out4MentalHealth is a collaborative project of the California LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network, funded by the California Mental Health Services Act (Prop 63) and overseen by the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission (MHSOAC).
Adverse Childhood Experiences represent a largely unrecognized public health crisis. ACEs Aware, part of Governor Newsom’s California for All initiative, seeks to reduce ACEs and toxic stress by half in one generation.
The California Department of Public Health is the state department responsible for public health in California. It is a subdivision of the California Health and Human Services Agency. It enforces some of the laws in the California Health and Safety Codes, notably the licensing of some types of healthcare facilities.
