Expanding Trans Futures: Care and Advocacy for Our Tomorrow

Description

The Expanding Trans Futures: Care and Advocacy for Our Tomorrow conference, scheduled for April 25-27, 2025, in Asheville, NC, will showcase genuine community partnerships, best practices, and groundbreaking research to support the health and wellbeing of transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender expansive communities. This conference will provide education and resources to increase access to care and improve the quality of the care currently available for transgender patients.

Topics will include: nutrition, transmasculine voice therapy, gender affirming care in adults, healing trauma in the trans population, tools for working with transgender clients with anxiety, challenging stigma, combatting misinformation, support groups for parents and caregivers of transgender youth, and building community networks.

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Target Audience

Healthcare providers including physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, interested allied health professionals, and student health providers. Behavioral health providers including psychiatrists, counselors, therapists, social workers and psychologists. Community members including transgender and gender expansive individuals, family members, partners, friends, and allies

Objectives

• Analyze the effectiveness of current community partnership models in improving health outcomes for transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and gender expansive communities
• Evaluate best practices in clinical care and advocacy
• Identify gaps in existing protocols that affect access and quality of care for transgender patients
• Implement actionable solutions to the gaps in care protocols
• Develop strategies to implement innovative research into practice, ensuring that care delivery is informed by the latest evidence
• Design comprehensive care frameworks that incorporate racial equity and intersectionality to reduce health disparities and promote holistic wellbeing in transgender and gender-diverse populations
• Assess policies and systemic barriers that hinder the provision of equitable care
• Advocate for policy reform at institutional and legislative levels

Faculty

• Jonah Blum
• Olivia Buckoski, PharmD, AAHIVP, HIVP
• Tori Cooper, BA, MPHc
• Alice Drozdiak, MSPH, MSW, LCSWA
• Eileen Gieger, LMHC
• Kai Herschl, MSW, LCSWA
• Ivy Hill
• Katie Jenifer, JD
• Flex Jonez
• Ben J. Kaplan, MD, MPH
• Rebby Kern
• Tora Kincaid, Ph.D., LCMHC, LCASA
• Casey Mesaeh, BSPH
• Julie Neal, MA, LPA
• Tara Nixon, MM, MS, CCC-SLP
• Sonya Parker, MSW, LCSW
• Holly B. Savoy, PhD
• Heather Schier, PhD
• Riley Smith, MD
• Irene P. Ulrich, PharmD
• Genevieve Verrastro, MD
• Audrey Walstrom, DMA, MA, CCC-SLP
• Craig White, MSW