Pride is Good for Your Health: Creating Organizational Change in Hospitals
Moderator:
Marilyn Kanee, Diversity and Human Rights Advisor, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Presenters:
Anthony Mohamed, Diversity and Special Projects Coordinator, Inner City Health Program, St. Michael’s
Hospital, Toronto
Margo Kennedy, Social Worker, PsychoSocial & Palliative Care, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto
Janet Mawhinney, Senior Diversity Consultant, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto
Joanne Davies, Ecumenical Chaplain, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
Robert Windrum, Principal Gift Manager, Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation, University Health
Network, Toronto
Four large, urban hospitals have been working toward creating inclusive, accessible and equitable environments for LGBT patients, staff and visitors. This presentation will focus on their differing strategies for organizational change to address homophobia and create inclusive and equitable policies and practices. This workshop will explore the struggles that are unique to healthcare; the particular nature of homophobia in hospital environments; useful materials and resources; what has created LGBT positive change and what hasn’t. Examples of the different approaches taken by the different hospitals will be described to provide a wide range of strategies for change that participants can adapt to their own settings. The workshop will include a panel presentation as well as discussion and group interaction.
