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NLGBT

The Network for LGBT Health Equity

PRIMARY POPULATIONS SERVED: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender population
SECONDARY: Other Priority Populations

DESCRIPTION:
The Network for LGBT Health Equity is a community-driven network of advocates and professionals looking to enhance LGBT health by eliminating tobacco use, and other health disparities within our communities. We are one of six CDC-funded tobacco disparity networks and a project of The Fenway Institute in Boston. We advance these issues primarily by linking people and information to advocate for policy change. We maintain a virtual forum of LGBT tobacco and wellness professionals, encouraging them to share lessons and jointly monitor gaps in the arena. We gather departments or other policymakers in LGBT cultural competency and forge bridges bewteen them and local LGBT health specialists. We actively monitor national and state health policy makers and urge community action when there is an opportunity to enhance LGBT wellness.

MISSION:
A grassroots Network: Igniting and channeling passion through facilitating effective collaboration, communication, mobilization and advocacy, and public policy to create more socially just and healthier communities for LGBTQ people.

PRIORITY INITIATIVES:

LGBT Youth
Goal: Preventing tobacco uptake in LGBT youth.  The youth initiative will involve gathering and disseminating lessons learned from existing youth tobacco groups and training new LGBT youth tobacco leaders.

LGBT Cessation
Goal: Promoting LGBT tobacco cessation which includes collaborations with the American Lung Association, quit lines, and LGBT medical providers to disseminate the latest cessation resources.

LGBT Clean Indoor Air
Goal: Engage for LGBTs in the CIA work being done locally.  This initiative will focus on connecting people to local resources, providing training and lessos learned from other localities.

LGBT State
Goal: Help more states incorporate LGBT health disparity work in to their current tobacco activities.  This initiative will involve assessing needs of the state tobacco directors, providing customized TA, and building the library of LGBT resources for states to access.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

The Network for LGBT Health Equity
1340 Boylston Street, 8th Floor
Boston, MA 02115
Ph: 617-927-6451
Fx: 617-267-0764
Email: lgbthealthequity@gmail.com
Website: www.lgbttobacco.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lgbt.tobaccocontrol; www.facebook.com/LGBTHealthEquity
Twitter: @lgbttobacco; @lgbthlthequity
Blog: www.lgbthealthequity.wordpress.com

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