Learn
how to bring the Staff of the Rainbow Heights Club can come to your agency
to provide LGBT Cultural Competency Trainings for your
staff, consumers and students through the Promoting
Respect for Individual Differences
through Education (PRIDE) Training Program.
PRIDE Training Handouts for distribution
(Acrobat Reader is necessary to view pdf):
Enhancing LGBT Cultural Competency: Welcoming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clients in Mental Health Services.
This document is a joint project by: Planned Parenthood Mid-Hudson Valley, Inc., Mental Health Association in Ulster County, Inc., and the University of Maryland Center for Mental Health Services Research with thanks for generous funding from the Gil Foundation.
*This is a pdf file and can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat.
Download
the latest LGBT Directory of Services and Resources, courtesy of New York
City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr.
Check out Rainbow Heights Club's Code
of Conduct, which was developed collaboratively by consumers and staff
Here are some documents relating
to the New York City Federation for Mental Health, Mental Retardation and
Alcoholism Services' Citywide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Committee,
which Dr. Christian Huygen, Executive Director of Rainbow Heights Club,
co-chairs. Meetings happen on a monthly basis, every second Tuesday,
at the LGBT Center in Manhattan. Here are the minutes from the September
and October 2006
meetings, and an agenda
and flyer for the
November meeting, which will take place Thursday, November 9, 2006.
You're invited to attend!
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Local
Government Plan for Mental Health Services for Fiscal Year 2006
Dr. Christian Huygen's Testimony and Feedback
on the 2006 DOHMH Local Plan for Mental Health Services
New York State Office of Mental Health Statewide
Comprehensive Plan for Mental Health Services, 2006-2010
Dr. Christian Huygen's Testimony and Feedback
on the 2006-2010 Statewide Comprehensive Plan for Mental Health Services
Raising Issues: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People Receiving
Services in the Public Mental Health System. Alicia Lucksted, PhD
(2004). Center for Mental Health Services Research, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Maryland.
Guidelines
for mental health care providers : How to provide effective and culturally
competent treatment to LGBT people living with mental illness
Now
available: Handbook of LGBT Issues
in Community Mental Health , edited by Ronald E. Hellman, MD, Director,
LGBT Affirmative Program, Heights-Hill Mental Health Service, South Beach
Psychiatric Center, a nd Jack Drescher, MD.
New York City Voices is a newspaper by and for mental health consumers. It's an outstanding resource for the entire mental health community, consumers as well as providers.
More resources to come soon.
