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Please note that this information will be updated again Tues 29th Nov.
HEALTH STRAND
Join us for a morning devoted to existing strategic partnerships between the Health Services Executive and LGBT community organisations. Representatives from LGBT organisations and the HSE will offer their experiences and first-hand accounts of creative, innovative approaches to forming strong alliances with the HSE. Filled with practical advice on building productive, successful partnerships.
KEY NOTES: HEALTH
Dr. Philip Crowley: National Director of Quality and Patient Safety, HSE
PANEL OVERVIEW
“The National HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Awareness Programme for men who have sex with men (MSM)”
Speaker: Susan Donlon (Gay Health Network)
“Transgender Health Programme”
Speakers: Broden Giambrone (TENI) & Caoimhe Gleeson (HSE)
“BeLonG To”
Speaker: David Carroll
SPEAKERS & PROJECTS
The National HIV Prevention and Sexual Health Awareness Programme for men who have sex with men (MSM) represents a unique partnership with the HSE in the promotion of HIV prevention among MSM, and will be the only systematic programme addressing these issues for MSM in Ireland. TA dynamic, youthful and peer-led programme, messages and designs have been driven by a younger MSM peer group facilitated by BeLonG To Youth Services and will incorporate messages of building self-esteem, empowering and equipping men to make safer sex choices. The programme is in line with the Action Plan of the NASC HIV and AIDS Education and Prevention Plan 2008-2012, which seeks to contribute to a reduction in new infections of HIV through education and prevention measures.
Susan Donlon (Gay Health Network)
Susan works with Dublin AIDS Alliance as manager of Prevention Education and Training Services, and has been a member of the Gay Health Network (GHN) for over five years. Susan is part of the GHN strategic planning committee and co-ordinates sector-wide communications through the publication of a quarterly newsletter (On the One Road). Susan is part of the committee that developed the partnership and secured the financial support from the HSE for a National HIV Prevention Programme for men who have sex with men (MSM).
Bernardine Quinn Bernardine Quinn is the project co-ordinator of Dundalk Outcomers a Lesbian Gay Bisexual support group in Dundalk town, As a co-founder of the organisation Bernardine has been involved in the development of the service since 1995. Dundalk Outcomers have been delivering training to community voluntary and statutory agencies in the north east Region since 2000. Some the agencies who have taken up lgbt equality awareness training are An Garda Siochana and Hse, front line staff, / North East. With a BA Degree in Community Development Bernardine is passionate about empowering people to be instrumental in their own development and ability to participate as full and active citizens.----
TENI has entered into a partnership with the HSE to progress the treatment pathways for transgender people. This new initiative will begin to address the issues trans people face in accessing health services. Through the creation of a Transgender Health Working Group the actions of the project will be: conducting a baseline survey of health service clinicians and service providers who have experience and knowledge working with the trans community, delivery of targeted training to health service clinicians and service providers and development of a list of service providers who are ‘trans-sensitive” and able to work with trans clients. This partnership represents a significant step forward in the area of trans health in Ireland.
Broden Giambrone (Transgender Equality Network Ireland)
Broden is the Director of Transgender Equality network Ireland. Previous to coming to Ireland, Broden worked extensively within trans communities in Canada, and has co-founded and served on Steering Committees of voluntary organisations (including Trans PULSE and the Gay/Bi/Queer Trans Men HIV Prevention Working Group). His areas of focus include education/training, resource development, knowledge exchange and research.
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BeLonG To has had a successful partnership with NOSP (National Office For Suicide Prevention) for a number of years now. As well as funding the National Network role, including annual Youth Leadership training, the office has also partnered with BeLonG To on a number of 'co-branding initiatives' such as a booklet for young people and their parents. They have also supported research on the lives of LGBT people and produced a mental health guide targeting the LGBT community (both in conjunction with GLEN).
David Carroll (BeLonG To Youth Services)
David is Director of Services at BeLonG To Youth Service. Previous to this David has worked with the LGBT community in a variety of roles, as Outreach Worker and Trainer with Gay Men's Health Service (HSE), co-founder of Johnny - Gay Peer Action Group, and as Education Coordinator with AIDS WEST in Galway. In his previous role as National Network Manager with BeLonG To, David was responsible for the developmental and support of new LGBT youth services around the country. David also sits on the steering committee of LGBT Diversity.
POLICING & COMMUNITY SAFETY
Theme: To identify issues of community safety which are a priority for LGBT communities in Ireland. This strand will look at ways that community groups, gardai and other agencies can work together to provide safety and reduce incidents of homophobic and transphobic hate crimes.
Keynote Speaker
* Nacie Rice, Asst Commissioner Strategy and Change Management
Will discuss Garda policing service to LGBT community, Garda Diversity Strategy, new diversity liaison officer role.
Nacie Rice is the Deputy Commissioner in charge of Strategy & Change Management since October 2008. He joined the Garda Síochána in 1972. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Commissioner he was the Assistant Commissioner with responsibility for Crime & Security. He also served as the Assistant Commissioner in the Eastern Region (Mullingar) and in Human Resource Management in Garda Headquarters. He has also served in Donegal, Louth, Store Street and the Special Detective Unit. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, Virginia, USA. He is the holder of a BA (Police Management) and was conferred in 2007 with an MSc in Strategic Management in the Public Sector from Trinity College, Dublin. Panel discussion - 5 minutes presentations, Q&A & comments from the floor and panel discussion
Maeve Ryan, Co-ordinator National Crime Victims Helpline
Matthew McDermott, Rainbow Project Northern Ireland will speak on Northern Ireland’s approach to reducing hate crimes, and advocating for LGBT people who experience hate crimes. Matthew is the Equality Officer at The Rainbow Project. He worked as a political advisor and researcher for three years before taking up this post. He is responsible for policy development in Equality, Human Rights and Criminal Justice, representing the project on various forums and interfacing with key stakeholders on a daily basis.
Brian Sheehan, GLEN. Brian joined GLEN from Boardmatch Ireland - an innovative new model of volunteering - where he was founding Director. From a background in Banking and Information Technology, Brian worked previously with the GLEN initiative Gay HIV Strategies as Director from 1999 to 2000. He has had a significant involvment in lesbian and gay organisations over the last 15 years, including with Gay Switchboard Dublin; as Director of the Dublin Lesbian and Gay Film Festival for five years, as co-chair of the National Lesbian and Gay Federation which oversees the publication of GCN and the Irish Queer Archives; and for five years as a Board member of GLEN.
Garda Karl Griffin (LGBT liaison officer, Cork)
Panel chaired by Davin Roche, GLEN. Davin works to support the sustainable development of LGB communities nationally and regionally. This has included launching the national LGBT Community Development Code of Practice, the continued inclusion of LGBT communities in national community development programmes and supporting the development of the national LGBT community development programme, LGBT Diversity. Prior to joining GLEN, Davin worked on the development of the national disability advocacy programme in the Citizen's Information Board. He was also Community Development Co-ordinator with Bray Partnership, and a Social Worker with Travellers with Fingal County Council. He is also a former vice chairperson of the Community Workers Co-operative.
Workshop PM
Suggested objectives (one or more)
* Build contacts, awareness and relationships between new liaison officers and LGBT community
* Build awareness of LGBT Helpline recording system.
* Identify proactive actions that could be taken regionally: communication actions, increased reporting and recording actions; consultation
* Use as a consultation exercise on the needs of the community regionally, Gardaí ID possible actions based on their existing community policing experiences
Facilitators:
Dave Roche, Cork Gay Project. Dave will present on Good Practice in co-operative work carried out in Cork city. Dave has been the manager of The Cork gay Project for the past ten years and has worked extensively in the area of community development around the issues faced by gay and bisexual men.
Dave is a graduate of UCC where he received an honours degree in social science in 1999.
Dave works in the Munster region and represents the project on a number of National bodies and networks.
Garda Karl Griffin (LGBT liaison officer Cork)
ARTS AND CULTURE STRAND
Cultural and arts based practice can support many of the key objectives of LGBT community organisations and there is increasing interest in the LGBT sector of the value of “artivism”.
This strand will look at how LGBT groups might work together with arts and cultural organisations to, for example, promote self-esteem and a positive self-image amongst LGBT people; challenge transphobia and homophobia and reduce discriminatory attitudes and beliefs; promoting diversity and celebrate the contribution that LGBT people make to Irish society; or reduce the invisibility and marginalisation of LGBT lives, particularly in rural Ireland.
PANEL SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Ins A Kromminga (Also Keynote speaker)
Ins A Kromminga is an internationally acclaimed intersexed artist and activist, currently based in Berlin. His_Her work has been recently exhibited at Catalyst Arts Belfast, Galerie Wolfstädter in Frankfurt, the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, the Cobra Museum of Amsterdam, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, among others.
Ins will speak about his_her own practice as a visual artist and activist, how both activities influence his_her work in both areas and what his_her thoughts are on the importance to create a "culture of our own" while demanding our human rights.
Phillip McMahon: Thisispopbaby
THISISPOPBABY is a theatre and events production company that rips up the space between popular culture, counter culture, queer culture and high art – providing both a vehicle for our associate artists’ dreams and an electrifying access point to the arts.
Four years young, the company - led by Jennifer Jennings and Phillip McMahon - has had 10 sold out shows, won three major awards, has produced tours for other artists, runs a performance, art and electropop space at the Electric Picnic Music Festival, stages Queer Notions, a mini-festival of queer ideas and performance, at Project Arts Centre and made history in 2010 with performance art club WERK in the Abbey Theatre.
Fergus McMillan and Amy Murphy LGBT Youth Scotland
"Challenging Prejudice: Changing Attitudes Towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Scotland" is a national strategy, supported and funded by the Scottish Government and developed in partnership with the three national LGBT organisations; LGBT Youth Scotland, the Equality Network and Stonewall Scotland. Central to the strategy is the support for an LGBT affirmative cultural calendar; including LGBT History Month, IDAHO, Transgender Day of Remembrance and Pride.
Fergus MacMillan is Chief Executive of LGBT Youth Scotland. He will talk about the development of this national strategy, their experience of working within a national strategy to reduce prejudice, and why cultural activism is central to that strategy. Amy Murphy is the LGBT History Month Officer and will talk about the impact of History Month, and also about their funding to promote LGBT History Month in other European countries.
Liz Meaney Cork City Council
Eibhear Walshe is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern English at University College Cork. He will be talking about Irish lesbian and gay writers and in particular, his biography of the Irish lesbian novelist, Kate O’Brien, published by Irish Academic Press in 2006 and his gay autobiographical memoir, Cissie’s Abattoir, published by Collins Press in 2009.
Una Feely is the Festival Programmer with the Corona Cork Film Festival since 2003. Her job entails working with a programming team on all aspects of the festival programme: selection of features, short films, documentaries and special retrospectives. Her involvement with Cork Film Festival began in 1990 as a member of the selection team; and she has also programmed for Kino Arthouse Cinema 1996 - 2008. Prior to this, she worked as Manager with Cork Community Art Link; a community arts organisation based in Cork City. Outlook LGBT programme has just celebrated it's 21st birthday at Cork Film Festival. Úna works with the Outlook team on the organisation every year; which is programmed chiefly by David Mullane, in association with Dave Roche of Cork Gay Project.
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23
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You are cordially invited to “Working Together” the National Conference of LGBT Diversity & TENI!
Date: Friday 2nd December 2011
Time: 9.00am to 3.30 pm
Venue: The River Lee Hotel, Western Road, Cork
Conference Focus: The focus of this year’s conference is on how the LGBT sector and mainstream agencies can work together to make the principles of diversity, rights and inclusion and effective service delivery a reality at a national and regional level. This conference as an opportunity to explore good-practice in Ireland and beyond and will be a remarkable opportunity to bring key service providers, LGBT organisations and individual together.
The conference will take place in the morning with opportunities to participate in discussions and workshops throughout the afternoon.
Light refreshments and lunch will be served.
9.00-10.00 REGISTRATION
10.00 Opening Welcome: Deputy Mayor of Cork
10.10 KEY NOTES: HEALTH
Dr Philip Crowley: National Director of Quality and Patient Safety
10.25 KEY NOTES: POLICING & COMMUNITY ISSUES
Deputy Commissioner Nacie Rice: Deputy Commissioner for Strategy and Change Management, An Garda Síochána
10.40 KEY NOTES: ARTS & CULTURE
Ins A. Kromminga: internationally acclaimed intersexed artist and activist
10.55 Coffee
11.10 PANEL SESSIONS
HEALTH: Susan Donlon (Gay Health Network), Broden Giambrone (TENI) Caoimhe Gleeson (HSE), Bernardine Quinn (Dundalk Outcomers), David Carroll (BeLongTo). Chaired by: Vanessa Lacey (TENI)
POLICING AND COMMUNITY SAFETY: Karl Griffin (Garda Liaison Officer, Cork City), Toddy Hogan (LinC), Matthew McDermott (Rainbow Project Northern Ireland), Jim O’Donovan (Cork City Council), Brian Sheehan (GLEN), Chaired by Davin Roche (GLEN)
ARTS: Ins A. Kromminga, Phillip McMahon (THISISPOPBABY), Fergus McMillan and Amy Murphy (LGBT Youth Scotland), Liz Meaney (Cork City Council) Eibhear Walshe(University College Cork), Una Feely (Cork Film Festival), Chaired by Patrick Stoakes (LGBT Diversity)
12.40 Lunch
1.30 Launch of first National HIV Prevention Programme for MSM
2.00 Workshops
HEALTH: Broden Giambrone (TENI), Caoimhe Gleeson (HSE)
POLICING: Dave Roche (Cork Gay Project), Karl Griffen (Garda)
ARTS: Patrick Stoakes (LGBT Diversity)
3.00 Plenary.
3.30 Finish
For Bookings contact Sarah on 021 4305000 or email info@lgbtdiversity.com. There is no charge to attend but places are limited.
For more information see www.lgbtdiversity.com or www.teni.ie
The LGBT Diversity programme is a coordinated response, by local and national organisations which aims to build the capacity of existing services, groups, organisations, and centres that work with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) people, so that they may offer a wide range of high quality supports and services to LGBT people at a local level, in order that they can live more active and healthy lives and are empowered to advocate on their own behalf. TENI’s aim is to build the capacity of voluntary and statutory organisations, including the LGBT sector, so that they have the capacity to provide transgender supports and services.
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The LGBT Diversity & TENI Joint conference will take place Dec 2nd at the River Lee Hotel in Cork. There will be a pre-conference social evening at the River Lee on Dec 1st at 8pm. Registration forms avaialble below or from info@lgbtdiversity.com, this conference is free but places are limited. Workshops taking place include:
Art & Culture
Health
Policing & Community Issues
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TENI AND LGBT DIVERSITY NATIONAL CONFERENCE:
RIVER LEE HOTEL CORK DECEMBER 2nd 2011
ARTS AND CULTURE STRAND
Cultural and arts based practice can support many of the key objectives of LGBT community organisations and there is increasing interest in the LGBT sector of the value of “artivism”.
This strand will look at how LGBT groups might work together with arts and cultural organisations to, for example, promote self-esteem and a positive self-image amongst LGBT people; challenge transphobia and homophobia and reduce discriminatory attitudes and beliefs; promoting diversity and celebrate the contribution that LGBT people make to Irish society; or reduce the invisibility and marginalisation of LGBT lives, particularly in rural Ireland.
PANEL SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Ins A Kromminga
Ins A Kromminga is an internationally acclaimed intersexed artist and activist, currently based in Berlin. His_Her work has been recently exhibited at Catalyst Arts Belfast, Galerie Wolfstädter in Frankfurt, the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, the Cobra Museum of Amsterdam, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, among others.
Ins will speak about his_her own practice as a visual artist and activist, how both activities influence his_her work in both areas and what his_her thoughts are on the importance to create a "culture of our own" while demanding our human rights.
Phillip McMahon: Thisispopbaby
THISISPOPBABY is a theatre and events production company that rips up the space between popular culture, counter culture, queer culture and high art – providing both a vehicle for our associate artists’ dreams and an electrifying access point to the arts.
Four years young, the company - led by Jennifer Jennings and Phillip McMahon - has had 10 sold out shows, won three major awards, has produced tours for other artists, runs a performance, art and electropop space at the Electric Picnic Music Festival, stages Queer Notions, a mini-festival of queer ideas and performance, at Project Arts Centre and made history in 2010 with performance art club WERK in the Abbey Theatre.
Fergus McMillan and Amy Murphy LGBT Youth Scotland
"Challenging Prejudice: Changing Attitudes Towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People in Scotland" is a national strategy, supported and funded by the Scottish Government and developed in partnership with the three national LGBT organisations; LGBT Youth Scotland, the Equality Network and Stonewall Scotland. Central to the strategy is the support for an LGBT affirmative cultural calendar; including LGBT History Month, IDAHO, Transgender Day of Remembrance and Pride.
Fergus MacMillan is Chief Executive of LGBT Youth Scotland. He will talk about the development of this national strategy, their experience of working within a national strategy to reduce prejudice, and why cultural activism is central to that strategy. Amy Murphy is the LGBT History Month Officer and will talk about the impact of History Month, and also about their funding to promote LGBT History Month in other European countries.
To register contact info@lgbtdiversity.com
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