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In June, there’s a health fair on Broadway
Posted by ywcakatie on June 17, 2014
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/in-june-theres-a-health-fair-on-broadway/
16th Annual Rainbow Health Fair!
We are so excited to host the 16th annual Rainbow Health Fair on Saturday, June 28,from 1-5pm at All Pilgrims Church on Broadway and Republican at the Capitol Hill Pride Festival. At the Rainbow Health Fair, our mission is to offer traditional and holistic health services and education from culturally competent providers to lesbian, bisexual, and queer women and gender queer and transgender people, especially those with limited access to care.
Our vision:
A world where people of all genders and sexualities have access to the resources they need for optimal wellness.
Here’s the thing:
To make it happen we need YOU.
We need you to come by, say hi, and maybe even…
- Get a free pap test or mammogram. Yeah, it’s nobody’s idea of a good time, but trust us, our providers love working with LBTQ patients – and did we say free?
- Free mammograms for eligible people 40+ only
- Free massages and acupuncture
- Free snacks and water
- Lots of great information for your health and wellness
- Health resources in Seattle and the Puget Sound
- Insurance info and enrollment
- Win a sweet raffle prize from Babeland, Three Dollar Bill Cinema, Rat City Roller Girls, SIFF cinema and more!
We’ll be posting more soon about the awesome providers we have lined up for you, but in the meantime, save the date to come see us at Capitol Hill Pride!
The Rainbow Health Fair: free, fun, safe and queer!!
To stay up-to-date and informed about the Rainbow Health Fair this year and every year, visit the YWCA’s LBTQ Health Blog!
Posted by ywcakatie on June 9, 2014
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/16th-annual-rainbow-health-fair/
15th Annual Rainbow Health Fair
For fifteen years, the Rainbow Women’s Health Fair has offered access to health information and health care services to Seattle’s LBTQ community. Last weekend, the health fair was held at All Pilgrims Church on Broadway in the middle of Pride Weekend – and it was a smashing success!
Many thanks to All Pilgrims Church, all our volunteers and providers, and the community for their participation. We couldn’t have done it without you! And we can’t wait until next year!
Katie Lama, LPN, providing glucose and cholesterol screenings
Doris Harris from the Breast Cancer Navigation Project
Two Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence find Rainbow Women’s Health Fair Volunteers!
Volunteers Gabi and Agnes do intakes for women getting their mammograms
Volunteers Kyle and Shan offered free hugs at the Hug Deli!
YWCA Volunteer and Rainbow Health Fair Committee Member Jen Peters and YWCA Women’s Health Outreach Program Manager Ingrid Berkhout.
Posted by ywcakatie on July 3, 2013
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/15th-annual-rainbow-health-fair/
June 29: 15th Annual Rainbow Women’s Health Fair!
Free massage? Free yoga? Free mammograms, pap tests, acupuncture, and more – all in an LBTQ-friendly setting? Yes, please!
Come by All Pilgrims Church at Republican and Broadway between noon and 4pm on Saturday, June 29, the day of the Capitol Hill Pride Festival. That’s where the Rainbow Women’s Health Fair will be taking place. The goal of the health fair is to provide holistic and traditional health services and education from culturally competent providers to lesbian, bisexual, and queer women and genderqueer and transgender people, especially those with limited access to care. “It’s about empowering the community to take care of their health,” says Ingrid Berkhout, YWCA Women’s Health Outreach Program Manager. Since 2000, she has coordinated a team of volunteers to make the health fair happen each Pride.
Research shows that lesbian and bisexual women are less likely to get the preventive screenings they need, like mammograms and pap tests, and are more likely to experience some health issues, such as depression. Trans people of all genders face even more barriers to getting the health care they need. Yet there are very few health services in Seattle geared toward LBTQ women and trans people. The Rainbow Women’s Health Fair attempts to fill this gap, at least for one day each year.
Why attend the health fair? Ingrid offers a lot of reasons: “To experience alternative healthcare you might not know about. To get your vitals checked. To have fun, meet women, maybe find a provider, and get lots of information about LBTQ community organizations. To be proud of your health! Because if you’re not healthy, nothing really works.” All providers that participate in the fair volunteer their time and resources, and the planning committee focuses on recruiting LBTQ providers (or people with a long history of serving our community) to ensure that all services are culturally competent, as well as free, for all participants.
The Rainbow Women’s Health Fair was started in 1995 by the Seattle Lesbian Cancer Project. In later years, the fair was sponsored by Verbena Health, and after their premature demise, Ingrid and the fair moved over to the YWCA. Despite the many changes in our community, the fair is still going strong. This year’s fair will be the 15th (a few years have been skipped), and will include free yoga, massage, acupuncture, HIV tests, vitals checks, mammograms, pap smears, raffle prizes, and more, as well as interactive workshops throughout the day on topics like nutrition. Check out the YWCA’s LBTQ Health Blog for updates.
If you’re interested in volunteering, contact Nina Cole at 206.461.4482 or ncole@ywcaworks.org. To schedule a mammogram appointment or for general information, contact Ingrid at iberkhou@ywcaworks.org or 206.461.4493. See you there!
Re-posted and adapted from LBTQ Health Blog.
Posted by ywcakatie on June 4, 2013
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/june-29-15th-annual-rainbow-womens-health-fair/
Another successful Rainbow Health Fair!
The 14th Annual LBTQ Rainbow Health Fair on Saturday, June 23rd was a wild success! Thank you to everyone who put their time, energy, services, and passion into this wonderful event! Just in case you missed it, here are a few snapshots from the day itself. For more information on the LBTQ Rainbow Health Fair, visit the YWCA’s LBTQ Health Blog.
Posted by ywcakatie on June 29, 2012
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/another-successful-rainbow-health-fair/
14th Annual Rainbow Health Fair at Pride
Join us for a fun, vibrant, active, and informative health fair this Saturday at Pride! It’ll be bigger and better than ever before, at Seattle Central Community College.
Saturday, June 23rd
1pm – 5pm
Seattle Central Community College
1701 Broadway
Seattle
Peer providers will share their services, including acupuncture, massage, energy healing, Zumba, stretching with Tamara the Trapeze Lady, HIV testing, cholesterol checks, naturopathic consultation, coming out services, mental health education, and a wonderful laughter session provided by our own Ingrid Berkhout.
The Swedish Breast Center Mammography Coach will join us on-site for no-cost mammograms. Grace Chapman, ARNP, will also be providing pap tests. Eligible individuals for these no-cost services must be income-eligible, and 40 or over. Insurance is also accepted. To schedule your mammogram and pap test, call YWCA Women’s Health Outreach’s Marilyn Calbert at 206.461.4489.
We are so excited to be holding this health fair again this year, bringing back many interactive and critical health services to Rainbow! Check out the YWCA’s LBTQ Health Blog to learn more about the 50-odd volunteer providers participating in this health fair and bringing free services to the community!
Posted by ywcakatie on June 21, 2012
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/14th-annual-rainbow-health-fair-at-pride/
Message from the YWCA’s CEO: Proud to highlight YWCA’s commitment to our diverse community
Gay Pride Month provides us with a timely opportunity to highlight the important commitment that the YWCA makes in providing services to a diverse community of women, men and children – regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
We believe that every person has inherent dignity and worth. This belief guides everything we do at the YWCA: how we work with clients, our policies, our relationships with colleagues, partners and donors. It’s embedded in our mission/vision statement: “We believe that working together we can create a community where all people live in dignity, free from violence, racism and discrimination.”
The LGBTQ community has experienced a history of violence and discrimination, and we believe that standing with our LGBTQ clients, staff, volunteers, board members and supporters is one concrete way we express our belief in the dignity and worth of every human being.
In celebration of Gay Pride Month, YWCA staff and volunteers are looking forward to participating in the 38th annual Pride Parade: The Many Faces of Pride, in Seattle this Sunday (June 24). We hope to see you along the parade route – we’ll be the group dressed mostly in orange!
We also hope you will join us at the 14th annual LBTQ Rainbow Health Fair on June 23 from noon to 5 p.m. at Seattle Central Community College. This fun event features complimentary health resources–from Zumba to acupuncture, massage therapy and nutrition.
These are just two of the events that our YWCA will be participating in that celebrate our rich, diverse community. Please visit us here on ywcaworks.org or like us on Facebook to learn about the events that we are joining or hosting in the upcoming months.
This blog post was originally posted on YWCA Leadership Blog: Message from our CEO, Sue Sherbrooke.
Posted by ywcakatie on June 20, 2012
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/message-from-the-ywcas-ceo-proud-to-highlight-ywcas-commitment-to-our-diverse-community/
Eat for a Cause!
You’re probably thinking, “Did I read that title correctly? ‘Eat for a cause?'” You sure did!
Between May 15th-17th, come join us at our California Pizza Kitchen – Northgate Mall FUNdraiser to “Eat for a Cause!”
20% of your proceeds, including dine-in, take-out, catering and alcoholic beverages, will go directly to the 14th Annual Rainbow Health Fair to be held on June 23rd.
So, bring your friends, family and colleagues, enjoy a delicious meal with even better drinks, and go home satisfied in both tummy and heart.
There will be YWCA staff and Rainbow Health Fair Committee members on site to provide the flyers necessary for donations.
California Pizza Kitchen – Northgate Mall is located at 401 NE Northgate Way, Seattle, WA, 98125.
We hope to see you all there!
Posted by ywcakatie on May 10, 2012
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/eat-for-a-cause/
Make a Rainbow Donation this February! (And get matched!)
Breast, ovarian and cervical cancers affects hundreds of thousands of women every year. Many of whom are our sisters, mothers, nieces, aunts, grandmothers, friends or loved ones. Unfortunately, most of you know someone who has been affected by these cancers, or who is being affected as we speak. Fortunately, there is a way you can give back to this cause, right now.
YWCA Women’s Health Outreach is a program that provides peer outreach, culturally-sensitive breast health education, no-cost mammograms, and information on additional health services for our diverse community. The program offers no-cost mammograms, pap tests and breast exams for income eligible individuals 40 and over. We serve those with limited incomes who are medically underserved, regardless of sexual orientation and/or gender identity. We also focus our outreach efforts on women from African American, Latina, and LBTQ communities.
Every year to coincide with the Pride festivities, YWCA Women’s Health Outreach organizes a Rainbow Health Fair for members of the LBTQ community. At these health fairs, we make free health resources and education available to a population and community that is all too often overlooked by our healthcare system. This year, we are hoping to make it the biggest and best health fair thus far. But, in order to do that, we need your help!
If this is a cause that interests you, please visit our YWCA Donations webpage and click the “donate” button on the right hand side of the webpage. Once on the donation page, select the designation to be the Health Access Department, and in the comments section of additional information, specify LBTQ Health: Rainbow Health Fair. Note that 100% of your money goes directly to YWCA Women’s Health Outreach.
And, in the month of February, donations will be matched dollar for dollar – up to $1,000! Consider a tax deductible gift of $10, $25, $50 or more to support the health of women in the Seattle area!
Posted by ywcakatie on February 7, 2012
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/make-a-rainbow-donation-this-february-and-get-matched/
What does Black History Month have to do with health?
This month, the University of Washington’s School of Medicine Student National Medical Association (UWSOM SNMA) presents BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2012 – Pride in our Resilience: Strength in Moving Forward! Find out what Black History Month has to do with health, health care and health disparities!
Throughout February, the UWSOM SNMA will be hosting four *free* events.
February 1st
Health Professional Social
6 – 8 pm, Lucid Jazz Lounge
5241 University Way NE, 21+
February 8th
Movie Night: “Something the Lord Made”
6pm, Health Sciences Building T-733
February 15th
Healthcare Panel
6pm, South Campus Center, Room 316
February 24th
Extravaganza!
“Unspoken Truths” Exhibit
Keynote: Max Hunter “Against All Odds”
Living Voices performance: “The Right to Dream”
12pm-8pm, Hogness Auditorium
Light appetizers will be served at 6pm.
For more information on any of these events, please contact Sharlay Butler.
Hope to see you there!
Posted by ywcakatie on January 31, 2012
https://healthaccessywca.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/what-does-black-history-month-have-to-do-with-health/
YWCA Health Access: Empowering Women in Health 