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Trans Safe Zone Training for Health Care Workers

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 6:00pm ET - 8:00pm ET
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Topic

Gender Inclusive Practices in Healthcare.

Speaker(s)

Ellen Rodrigues (She/They) is a Service Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. She serves as the Director of the LGBTQ+ Center and teaches a Women’s and Gender course focused on LGBTQ+ Perspectives.


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Julie Huron, (she,her) WVNA CEO is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Trans Safe Zone Training for Health Care Workers  
Time: Mar 28, 2023 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Health Safe Zone

This training is for professionals interested in gender-inclusive practices in healthcare. You will learn how to provide better care and services to transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people. The training covers information on health disparities, demographic information, brief history of health-related activism, overview of gender-affirming practices, overall experiences with healthcare system and respective intersectional complications. As a gender-inclusive professional, you will learn ways to assess your current work and organization, practice inclusive language and solutions to positively impact your organizational climate.

Ellen Rodrigues, Ph.D.

DIRECTOR, LGBTQ+ CENTER

Ellen Rodrigues (She/They) is a Service Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. She serves as the Director of the LGBTQ+ Center and teaches a Women’s and Gender course focused on LGBTQ+ Perspectives.

She is responsible for advancing the Center’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity. Through strategic partnerships, outreach initiatives and student engagement, Rodrigues implements advocacy efforts while overseeing programs and training that address the inclusion of queer, trans, gender nonbinary and all sexual orientations at WVU.

For two years as assistant director of the LGBTQ+ Center, Rodrigues was responsible for implementing gender-inclusive practices, including providing nearly 35 safe zone trainings to more than 1,000 individuals each academic year. She also served as the faculty advisor for the minor in LGBTQ+ studies and as the supervisor of the Center’s student ambassadors.

Before serving in this capacity, Ellen served the WVU community as a Diversity & AA/EO Specialist, and previously as a Sociology instructor at WVUP.

Rodrigues is a WVU alumna and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science.

About Us

The LGBTQ+ Center provides programming and academic resources for WVU students, faculty, staff, and community members. Situated in Academic Affairs and reporting to the Office of the Provost, we help enact the academic mission of the modern land grant university.  We support the university’s educational social justice efforts through trainings, classes, and advocacy on WVU campuses and across the state. Attention to LGBTQ-related inequities also requires addressing all aspects of inequality, including homophobia, transphobia, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, ableism, and more.

The LGBTQ+ Center also provides a warm, comfortable atmosphere for organizing, socializing, teaching, and learning. We welcome all students, staff, faculty, and community members to come up and join us.

Our Mission

The LGBTQ Center offers inclusive programming and outreach initiatives for WVU students, faculty, staff, and broader community members. We collaborate with and support the university’s larger social justice efforts by providing inclusive, academic, and curricular development training on all WVU campuses, by advocating for members of our community, and by building coalitions. We also work throughout the state to improve understanding of LGBTQIA+ issues.

Students are encouraged to use the LGBTQ+ Center lounge for studying, meeting friends, working on class projects, watching documentaries, and more. We also offer additional meeting spaces and snacks.