Beyond the Boxes: Emerging Trends in LGBTQ Mental Health Conference

* Registration & workshop
information now available! *

The Minnesota LGBT Therapists Network, the Queer Student Cultural Center and the GLBTA Programs Office at the University of Minnesota present a regional conference on mental health topics as they relate to LGBTQ communities:

Beyond the Boxes:
Emerging Trends in LGBTQ Mental Health
Friday, March 26, 2010
Coffman Union 3rd Floor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
300 Washington Ave SE, Mpls

About the Conference
A comprehensive, culturally diverse, and practical one-day conference aimed at informing & engaging mental health providers, health care professionals, educators, and the general public about mental health issues as they relate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities. This cutting-edge conference will explore changing paradigms in research, clinical practice and our understandings of diverse sexual and gender identities.

This conference is open to all interested people, including those who are allies to LGBTQ communities. This conference will be of particular interest to mental health practitioners, researchers in
health-related fields, professional educators, and undergraduate & graduate students. CEUs will be available: see below for more information.

Thursday Evening Reception
Please join us for a Thursday Evening Opening Reception, sponsored by the LGBT Therapists Network, with remarks by Beth Zemsky, founding member of the Network, and Loretta Worthington, Executive Director of the Rainbow Health Initiative. Entertainment provided by comic Donna DiMenna and musician Chastity Brown.

Thurs, March 25, 2010
6:30-7:30 PM: Social
7:30-9:00 PM: Program
Coffman Union 3rd Floor
Mississippi Room

Friday Conference Schedule

7:30 - 11:00 AM	Registration
8:00 AM	Resource Fair Opens
8:30 - 9:45 AM	Workshop Session I
10:00 - 11:15 AM	Workshop Session II
12:00 - 1:15 PM	Keynote & Lunch at the Radisson Hotel
1:30 - 2:45 PM	Workshop Session III
3:00 - 4:15 PM	Workshop Session IV
4:45 - 5:15 PM	Closing Celebration
5:30 PM	Resource Fair Ends

Registration - Now Open!

Please click here to register for the Beyond the Boxes Conference and/or Thursday Opening Reception.

We expect this conference to reach capacity, so we encourage you to register as soon as possible! All questions regarding registration should be directed to Anne Phibbs, conference co-chair, at phib0001@umn.edu or 612-599-8335.

Important registration information:

All registration is online with payment via credit or debit card. Please note you will need to use either Firefox or Internet Explorer as your browser to complete your registration. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The Thursday evening Opening Reception includes speakers and refreshments and begins at 6:30 PM in the Mississippi Room on the 3rd floor of Coffman Union. Participants can register for Reception and Conference or as Reception Only.
Friday lunch is included in the conference fee. Meat, vegetarian and vegan options are available.
Please include all accessibility requests on the online form. The conference organizers are committed to meeting the needs of everyone who may require accommodations for this conference.
The online form states that a "legal full" and/or "legal first" name is required. This is NOT actually required; please fill in the name fields as you prefer. The conference organizers attempted to remove this language from the registration system, but were unable to do so. Please note there is also a field for preferred name for your nametag.

Continuing Education Units
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available through several licensure boards, including the Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy (LADC, LP, LPCC), the Board of Social Work, and the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy. Certificates of completion will be distributed at the conference closing. If you have questions, or would like additional information regarding CEUs, please contact Christy Rushfeldt, MSW Intern, at cmrushfeldt@hotmail.com.

Keynote Presentation
Katherine "Kit" Rachlin, Ph.D. Kit Rachlin, Keynote

Katherine Rachlin, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and gender specialist in private practice in New York City. In addition to her work as a therapist, she also conducts trainings on transgender issues, provides supervision for psychotherapists, and provides expert testimony for transgender civil rights cases.

Dr. Rachlin's research and papers include: Flexible Use of the Standards of Care; Access to Health Care; Transgender Individuals' Experiences of Psychotherapy; and Factors which influence FTM surgical decisions. She is a past board member of FTM International, was a member of the American Psychological Association Taskforce on Gender Identity, Gender Variance, and Intersex Conditions, and is a current board member of The World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Visit Dr. Rachlin's website here.

Workshop Tracks
Click here to download an Excel document of the conference workshop schedule!

Click here to download a Word document of the full workshop descriptions!

This cutting edge conference will offer over 50 workshops that will explore changing paradigms in research and clinical practice as they relate to our understandings of diverse sexual and gender identities, as well as to issues of race, class, ability and sexual practices.

Clinical Track: Workshops in the Clinical Track will be presentations on emerging trends in mental health as they relate specifically to the LGBTQ communities, and geared towards an audience of mental health practitioners, people with clinical or professional training, and graduate students pursuing clinical training.

Research Track: Workshops in the Research Track will be presentations that highlight current clinical and psychological research that relates directly to the LGBTQ communities. These workshops will explain and explore what we are learning from this research and how it can actually be applied in the mental health fields.

Community Track: Workshops in the Community Track will include presentations on mental health topics as they relate to LGBTQ people and geared towards a general audience, which may include undergraduate and graduate students, laypersons from the larger community, and mental health professionals.

Resource Fair and Program Guide Advertising
We are now accepting requests to participate in the all-day Resource Fair and to purchase ads in the Beyond the Boxes Conference Program Guide. Please click here (Word doc) for complete information about the conference and either of these opportunities, or email Owen at 2010conf.marketing@gmail.com for more information.

Lodging
A special Beyond the Boxes rate has been established for conference attendees at the Radisson University Hotel-Mpls, across the street from the conference site on the University of Minnesota campus at 615 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis.

Conference attendees must make their reservations by February 23 to access the special rate. Contact Reservations at 1-800-395-7046 and ask for the Beyond the Boxes LGTBQ Conference rate.

In order to access the conference rate online:
- Go to www.radisson.com/univ_minneapolis
- Click on "More Search Options" in the Room Reservation Section
- Enter Dates of Stay
- Under "Promotional Code" enter: LGTBQ
- Choose a room under the block

Contact Information

General questions:
mnlgbtqconference2010@gmail.com

Conference Co-Chairs:
Irene Greene, MN LGBT Therapists Network
612-874-6442

Anne Phibbs, GLBTA Programs Office
612-625-8519

Registration

Click here to register for the Beyond the Boxes Conference.

Please read important registration info on the left!

Workshops

Click here to download
an Excel document of the conference workshop schedule.

Click here to download
a Word document of the full workshop descriptions.

(docs updated 3/4/10)

Conference Flyer

Download the new conference flyer to help promote Beyond the Boxes!

Resource Fair & Program Guide Advertising

Click here for information about reserving a table at the conference Resource Fair or advertising in the conference program guide.