{"id":6604,"date":"2016-04-06T11:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2016-04-20T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:27:59","slug":"geisel-schweitzer-fellows-working-to-ease-the-stigma-faced-by-lgbtq-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2016\/geisel-schweitzer-fellows-working-to-ease-the-stigma-faced-by-lgbtq-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel Schweitzer Fellows Working to Ease the Stigma Faced by LGBTQ Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Hampshire\/Vermont Schweitzer Fellows Ana Rodriguez-Villa '18 and Brendin Beaulieu-Jones '18, both second-year students at the Geisel School of Medicine, are working to address stigma and prejudice against LGBTQ youth in Vermont\u2019s Upper Valley with a weekly youth support group at The Junction, LISTEN Community Services\u2019 teen center, and by developing a curriculum aimed at preparing medical students to provide informed and supportive care to the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n

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Brendin Beaulieu-Jones '18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ana
Ana Rodriquez-Villa '18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe importance of this work is unmistakable,\u201d says Brendin. \u201cLGBTQ youth are at greater risk for depression and suicide, among other health complications. They are a group that requires attention and support both medical and personal.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, I hope our work to develop a curriculum focused on LGTBQ health for first and second year medical students serves as a building block for more formal integration of these topics into medical education,\u201d he adds. \u201cAna and I believe physicians must be prepared to care for this population in a competent and compassionate manner; they must be provided with opportunities to engage with LGBTQ people to practice the skills and competency needed to advance their specific health needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story at the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship's Beyond the Boulders blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Hampshire\/Vermont Schweitzer Fellows Ana Rodriguez-Villa ’18 and Brendin Beaulieu-Jones ’18 are working to address stigma and prejudice against LGBTQ youth in Vermont\u2019s Upper Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[489,57,700,536,213,353],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improving-lives","category-news","tag-community-health","tag-community-service","tag-lgbtq","tag-medical-students","tag-schweitzer-fellowship","tag-teens","post_format-post-format-aside","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/teen-hands-shutterstock_311327783.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-1Iw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6609,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}