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Tackling Loneliness: A Comprehensive Approach Loneliness is often viewed as an individual problem, but it's closely linked to discrimination, social exclusion, and structural factors. Addressing loneliness requires a broader approach beyond individual solutions. 1. Identity Safe Spaces: Providing safe and accepting spaces, such as LGBTQ+ venues. 2. Anti-Discrimination Legislation: Implementing strong legal protections against discrimination. 3. Positive Diversity Climates: Encouraging diversity in schools, workplaces, and community facilities. 4. Accessible Transport: Ensuring transportation is accessible and affordable. 5. Effective Community Planning: Designing communities with co-housing, green spaces, and social facilities. We all have a role in creating inclusive societies. How can you contribute to reducing loneliness in your community? #Loneliness #Inclusion #Community #Diversity #MentalHealth

Are you a provider committed to the provision of culturally relevant and affirming care? Do you want to serve the diverse needs of your LGBTQ+ clients, but aren’t sure where to start? We have just the training opportunity for you! Thanks to a grant awarded by Caring for Denver Foundation, the Envision:You LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Provider Training Program has released four population specific modules. These one hour on-demand, online modules focus on the disparities - and strengths - unique to individuals who hold multiple marginalized identities. Last week, we highlighted what you will learn by completing our module, Working with LGBTQ+ Youth. Now we’d like to highlight what you will learn with the population specific module: Working with LGBTQ+ Older Adults. A big thank you to Caring for Denver, who provided the funding to create these modules, OMNI Institute, for their expertise in training development, and all community advisory group members, for their invaluable support in developing each of the modules. To learn more, please go to: https://lnkd.in/edzAU7J9. #LGBTQ #LGBTQCommunity #LGBTQIA #QueerAdvocacy #Trans #Wellness #MentalHealth #Colorado #Nonprofit #Envision:You #Providers #Therapists #BehavioralHealth #SocialWork #PLC #LCSW #LMFT #LAC #DEI #Training #C4D #CaringForDenver #ContinuingEducation [Image description: [The background of image is a photo of four people with their backs turned, arms linked around each other’s backs. The photo is washed in gradient rainbow. White text overtop reads “What you will learn from our population-specific module: Working with LGBTQ+ Older Adults” followed by a purple text box listing learning objectives: “The history that LGBTQ+ older adults have navigated, including COVID-19 impacts / How to identify tools to support the behavioral health of LGBTQ+ older adults / Ways to recognize social supports and other protective factors for LGBTQ+ older adults.” The Envision:You LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Provider Training Program logo is the program name in white text framed by fanned rainbow tags on either side. The link for the training website is at the bottom, envision-you-training.org.] End description.]

National LGBTQ+ Health Awareness Week is intended to help the healthcare community advocate for reducing barriers to LGBTQ persons by creating and maintaining safe, inclusive and welcoming environments—and ensuring quality, accessible and non-discriminatory health care. National Coalition for LGBTQ Health So, what influences our health? Just about everything! You:Flourish recognizes that our physical and mental health are impacted by various things in our everyday life. These can also be called the social determinants of health: conditions in the environments where we are born, live, work, age, play, worship, and learn that impact our health and quality of life. In other words, our health is directly related to policy decisions, the conditions of our workplaces and schools, our access to social supports, and much more. To support LGBTQ+ health and well-being, our platform will provide users with a centralized resource hub, connecting users with support in the following key areas of life: 🤝Community 🏳️🌈Culture 💼Employment 🌍Environment 💰Finances 💪Physical & Mental Health #YouFlourish #LGBTQ #Wellness #StartUp #HealthEquity #SocialDeterminants #SDOH

Since June is #PrideMonth, I wanted to use this as an opportunity to discuss the importance of creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ individuals and dive into some steps allies can take to normalize practices to foster supportive environments through the Young Minds Initiative. LGBTQ+ individuals — especially transgender and non-binary people — experience higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation than non-LGBTQ+ individuals.                           There are many different facets that contribute to mental health — from the common factors that affect all people, like school, work, news, socioeconomics, background, family, etc. to more specific elements, such as increased anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, not respecting a person’s pronouns, experiencing targeted bullying from peers at school, not having access to gender-affirming healthcare, and much more. All people are deserving of a safe space where they can be their authentic selves and talk about their #mentalhealth. I invite you to read my most recent blog post, “Celebrating Pride: Fostering Safe Spaces for LGBTQ+ Folx” below! https://lnkd.in/gYnPhG-5

LGBTQ+ youth often struggle to access quality treatment due to factors such as discrimination, lack of familial and school support, and inadequate care from providers lacking cultural competency. In this article, James Polo, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Carelon Behavioral Health, emphasizes that the way forward is to educate the LGTBQ+ youth community about treatment options, train providers to use LGBTQ+-inclusive guidelines in treatment, and leverage Telebehavioral Health (TBH) where experienced therapists aren’t available. Read more about how our healthcare professionals can be the first to adapt to their patients’ changing societal needs. https://ow.ly/iT1v30sF27P hashtag#PrideMonth hashtag#MentalHealthAwareness hashtag#HealthcareEquity

LGBTQ+ youth often struggle to access quality treatment due to factors such as discrimination, lack of familial and school support, and inadequate care from providers lacking cultural competency. In this article, James Polo, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Carelon Behavioral Health, emphasizes that the way forward is to educate the LGTBQ+ youth community about treatment options, train providers to use LGBTQ+-inclusive guidelines in treatment, and leverage Telebehavioral Health (TBH) where experienced therapists aren’t available. Read more about how our healthcare professionals can be the first to adapt to their patients’ changing societal needs. https://ow.ly/iAMc30sFyfA hashtag#PrideMonth hashtag#MentalHealthAwareness hashtag#HealthcareEquity

LGBTQ+ youth often struggle to access quality treatment due to factors such as discrimination, lack of familial and school support, and inadequate care from providers lacking cultural competency. In this article, James Polo, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Carelon Behavioral Health, emphasizes that the way forward is to educate the LGTBQ+ youth community about treatment options, train providers to use LGBTQ+-inclusive guidelines in treatment, and leverage Telebehavioral Health (TBH) where experienced therapists aren’t available. Read more about how our healthcare professionals can be the first to adapt to their patients’ changing societal needs. https://ow.ly/ag0230sF1F7 hashtag#PrideMonth hashtag#MentalHealthAwareness hashtag#HealthcareEquity

When thinking about the environment as a social determinant of health, this can look like many things: gender-affirming bathroom options, political climates, the accessibility/availability of food and housing resources, proximity to parks, how safe someone feels getting home alone at night or attending school, and much more. Recognizing the influence of environmental factors on our mental health and well-being, You:Flourish provides resources to help users find and navigate LGBTQ+-friendly spaces, including LGBTQ+ community centers, support groups, and other safe spaces. #YouFlourish #LGBTQ #Wellness #StartUp #HealthEquity #SocialDeterminants #SDOH

LGBTQ+ youth often struggle to access quality treatment due to factors such as discrimination, lack of familial and school support, and inadequate care from providers lacking cultural competency. In this article, James Polo, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Carelon Behavioral Health, emphasizes that the way forward is to educate the LGTBQ+ youth community about treatment options, train providers to use LGBTQ+-inclusive guidelines in treatment, and leverage Telebehavioral Health (TBH) where experienced therapists aren’t available. Read more about how our healthcare professionals can be the first to adapt to their patients’ changing societal needs. https://ow.ly/Hhsl30sF1Az hashtag#PrideMonth hashtag#MentalHealthAwareness hashtag#HealthcareEquity