WEBVTT 00:00:01.186 --> 00:00:08.347 - Good evening. This is Susan with the Monroe County Women's Commission. It is Thursday, August 20th. 00:00:08.347 --> 00:00:15.867 - It is 5-34, and we'll go ahead and get started. The commission shall serve in an advisory role to assist 00:00:15.867 --> 00:00:23.171 - residents, businesses, and the government of Monroe County in addressing issues of gender equity. The 00:00:23.171 --> 00:00:30.046 - mission is to advance the status of women and marginalized genders in all areas of county life. 00:00:31.618 --> 00:00:42.954 - first order of business is to send out. Are you sent out the minutes? Did we have any? Commission or 00:00:42.954 --> 00:00:54.290 - maybe I fixed that so and. I still owe us may though. Or the one that we got is just for June, July. 00:00:54.290 --> 00:00:59.902 - July. Do we have a motion to pass July's minutes? 00:01:00.546 --> 00:01:13.795 - I will move to approve July minutes. I second. Five minutes. Commissioner updates will start with Jennifer. 00:01:13.795 --> 00:01:27.166 - Do you have any general updates we won't cover later? No, I don't think so. I do not. Commissioner Hardesty. 00:01:28.322 --> 00:01:34.481 - I have a freedom school steering committee update, which is just something that I am working on in the 00:01:34.481 --> 00:01:40.521 - community. So we have a plan now to begin engaging with the community via some community events this 00:01:40.521 --> 00:01:46.560 - fall. And we have a mission, and it's to educate students about black history and culture, deepening 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:52.719 - their understanding of the past, its impact on the present, and their role in shaping a better future. 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:56.606 - So we're very excited about this. So we're beginning things off. 00:01:56.738 --> 00:02:03.614 - kicking things off with a meeting for any interested parents and their kids to learn about what this 00:02:03.614 --> 00:02:10.966 - program is going to be and the activities that we have planned for this fall. And that meeting is happening 00:02:10.966 --> 00:02:17.910 - at the Monroe County Public Library downtown branch on Sunday, September 13th from three to four p.m. 00:02:17.910 --> 00:02:21.790 - in combo room meeting room one B slash C. So I do have a 00:02:22.466 --> 00:02:31.723 - community. Um our habitat for humanity. We build on September 26th. If anybody would like to donate 00:02:31.723 --> 00:02:40.980 - or join, you can go to habitat for humanity. Join my team. My name is Jennifer Bell. Thanks. Julie. 00:02:40.980 --> 00:02:51.070 - Did you have anything else now? Um my only updates. Update is I did talk to Commissioner Yarrow earlier this 00:02:51.458 --> 00:03:00.564 - I did have a proxy for them, but I don't know what happened to them. So I did want to announce that 00:03:00.564 --> 00:03:09.944 - I know Saturday's pride. I guess we should say that. But additionally, because everybody I think knows 00:03:09.944 --> 00:03:17.502 - that I am on the Monroe County Fire Protection District Board as well, and we have 00:03:17.762 --> 00:03:25.772 - of our community cookout, which they scheduled for this Saturday, August 22nd at 2026 from 11 to three. 00:03:25.772 --> 00:03:33.706 - It is out at Monroe Fire Station 21, which is at 9094 South Strain Ridge Road. It's open everybody and 00:03:33.706 --> 00:03:41.947 - they usually are have a lot of fun and they are doing the food paid the donation collection for Smithville 00:03:41.947 --> 00:03:45.182 - Food Pantry and Grace Center Food Pantry. 00:03:46.370 --> 00:03:56.311 - usually are a lot of fun, especially very family oriented and. Great, highly recommend ever. If you 00:03:56.311 --> 00:04:06.750 - ever have a chance to go meet those people there, the firefighters and staff and board were all amazing. 00:04:10.370 --> 00:04:16.744 - We should make a little bit more about Bloomington Pride Fest because it's happening all afternoon and 00:04:16.744 --> 00:04:23.181 - into the evening on Saturday. I don't know what I was like. I don't even know what time it starts. What 00:04:23.181 --> 00:04:29.555 - time does it start? It's like one ish to you. Yeah, two to what? Just go to Kirkwood. Yeah, that close 00:04:29.555 --> 00:04:35.806 - in the street, right? And I think the weather is going to be nice. Hopefully it's going to be great. 00:04:45.154 --> 00:04:53.793 - will come up in old business. Let's, I know we didn't introduce ourselves when we started. Why don't 00:04:53.793 --> 00:05:02.603 - you just, so this is. Yes, just introduce yourselves and then we'll introduce ourselves. Okay, my name 00:05:02.603 --> 00:05:10.814 - is Suki. I'm a third year medical student here at the IU School of Medicine Bloomington campus. 00:05:11.650 --> 00:05:19.419 - My name is Sage. I'm a second year medical student here at the IU Bloomington Medical School campus. 00:05:19.419 --> 00:05:27.343 - My name is Julie Hardesty. I'm a member of the Women's Commission, but I'm also a librarian at Indiana 00:05:27.343 --> 00:05:35.497 - University. My name is Jennifer Belton, Women's Commission. I work at the VA, the Veterans Administration 00:05:35.497 --> 00:05:40.574 - here in Bloomington. Molly with the Women's Commission. I work in 00:05:43.938 --> 00:05:50.900 - know who I am. I'm Susan slash Gus. Well, I'm the chair and most of us have been on the commission for 00:05:50.900 --> 00:05:57.794 - many, many years, it feels like. And a lot of time we have in the past, we, like I asked you, I mean, 00:05:57.794 --> 00:06:04.688 - this has been like a year in the making. I feel like, you know, had people come and present. And like 00:06:04.688 --> 00:06:11.582 - I've said, it's like, it always seems unimpressive because no one ever comes or watches. But if like, 00:06:12.354 --> 00:06:19.305 - We do get like a lot of people view us on because they're all recorded on cats and they go up online. 00:06:19.305 --> 00:06:26.189 - So it's always nice, you know, to one of our big things is to try to amplify voices of programs that 00:06:26.189 --> 00:06:33.072 - are going on in the community just so to get the more of the word out. And obviously the clinic fits 00:06:33.072 --> 00:06:35.934 - the bill perfectly and it is such a great 00:06:36.194 --> 00:06:45.621 - program and project that, that's why I was hoping you guys could come share with us and that actually 00:06:45.621 --> 00:06:55.140 - I'm going to have an ask as well that I realized. So you guys, so they're going to, TSD, sorry. So can 00:06:55.140 --> 00:07:04.382 - you promote Sage Sweeney? Cause she's going to, they're going to present, do a presentation for us. 00:07:35.010 --> 00:07:42.065 - Thank you. All right. Ready? I'm ready. Awesome. We're ready. So I already introduced myself. 00:07:42.065 --> 00:07:50.021 - My name is Sage. I am second year medical student and one of the medical student chairs for IUSM's Gender 00:07:50.021 --> 00:07:57.751 - Diverse and Queer Clinic. And Suki is our third year chair. So we're going to share a little bit about 00:07:57.751 --> 00:07:59.102 - our clinic today. 00:08:00.962 --> 00:08:08.499 - So first, some general information about what the Gender Diverse and Queer Clinic is, or the GDQC. So 00:08:08.499 --> 00:08:16.331 - we are a IU Health student-run clinic that provides free health care services to those that are uninsured 00:08:16.331 --> 00:08:23.794 - or underinsured, both in Bloomington and in Indiana at large. We focus on safe and affirming primary 00:08:23.794 --> 00:08:30.814 - care for LGBTQ patients. Some of our services include preventative care and health screenings. 00:08:30.946 --> 00:08:37.899 - labs including cervical cancer screening blood panels urine panels mental and sexual health care resources 00:08:37.899 --> 00:08:44.462 - medication management gender affirming care and we'll get into some of our other offerings as well a 00:08:44.462 --> 00:08:47.646 - little bit later. But first I want to talk about 00:08:47.746 --> 00:08:54.682 - So some health and equity challenges facing our LGBTQ population nationwide. So LGBTQ individuals face 00:08:54.682 --> 00:09:01.753 - a lot of barriers to care. They're two times as likely to rely on Medicaid as primary insurance compared 00:09:01.753 --> 00:09:07.880 - to non-LGBTQ adults and more likely to cite cost as a reason for delaying healthcare. They 00:09:07.880 --> 00:09:15.018 - face discrimination or fear of discrimination, which can discourage individuals from pursuing healthcare. 00:09:15.018 --> 00:09:17.712 - And we have a historic last year report 00:09:17.712 --> 00:09:25.529 - of LGBTQ competent health care providers in our country. So a little bit on health care disparities. 00:09:25.529 --> 00:09:32.030 - In terms of physical health, LGBTQ adults face greater cardiovascular disease risk. 00:09:32.450 --> 00:09:39.904 - incidence of eating disorders and disorder eating habits and higher risk of sleep health issues, to 00:09:39.904 --> 00:09:47.433 - name a few. In addition to sexual health disparities with homosexual men, men who have sex with men, 00:09:47.433 --> 00:09:54.962 - being at increased risk for certain STIs. Interestingly, receptive anal partners are at greater risk 00:09:54.962 --> 00:10:02.416 - than contracting HIV in comparison to receptive vaginal partners, and this is due to thinner lining 00:10:02.416 --> 00:10:09.296 - of the anal canal. So just anatomically how we're built can put us at higher risk for certain diseases. 00:10:09.296 --> 00:10:16.110 - And then in terms of mental health disparities, LGBTQ individuals are more likely to experience mental 00:10:16.110 --> 00:10:22.726 - health conditions, anxiety, depression, suicide, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse compared to 00:10:22.726 --> 00:10:29.341 - cisgender heterosexual peers. 41% of LGBTQ youth report seriously considering suicide in comparison 00:10:29.341 --> 00:10:31.326 - to 13% of their cishet peers. 00:10:31.682 --> 00:10:38.721 - And a lot of these health disparities are often attributed to the minority stress model. So LGBTQ individuals 00:10:38.721 --> 00:10:45.440 - experience unique stressors related to discrimination and victimization, such as bullying and harassment 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:51.903 - that can compound some of these disparities over time. So in terms of Bloomington in specific, there 00:10:51.903 --> 00:10:56.702 - were a few founding research publications put out that demonstrated a lack 00:10:57.058 --> 00:11:04.165 - acute competent care in southern Indiana in particular. So less than half of transgender and gender 00:11:04.165 --> 00:11:10.206 - non-binary survey respondents reported having a LGBTQ welcoming healthcare provider. 00:11:10.338 --> 00:11:16.405 - Those who had an LGBTQ welcoming health care provider and a competent provider were more likely to report 00:11:16.405 --> 00:11:22.186 - their health as excellent or good and to report quality of health as excellent or very good compared 00:11:22.186 --> 00:11:28.024 - to individuals without an LGBTQ welcoming provider. Some common themes arose in some of these surveys 00:11:28.024 --> 00:11:33.118 - regarding health care experiences, including discrimination and validation and distrust. 00:11:34.082 --> 00:11:39.624 - And then this is a clip of the paper that I'm describing, which was published by IU medical students 00:11:39.624 --> 00:11:45.220 - regarding the research in this area. So the survey included 85 participants and was created by one of 00:11:45.220 --> 00:11:50.707 - the founding members of the GDQC. Her name is Keely Newsome. She's a physician now. And this survey 00:11:50.707 --> 00:11:56.687 - demonstrated the need for gender inclusive LGBTQ competent care in order to bridge the health care disparity 00:11:56.687 --> 00:12:01.790 - gaps that we're seeing in southern and central Indiana. So Suki is going to share some more. 00:12:04.098 --> 00:12:13.446 - So as Sage said, one of our founding clinic members conducted a survey on not only the rate or really 00:12:13.446 --> 00:12:22.611 - the self-described health of LGBTQ folks in southern Indiana, but they also conducted a study on IU 00:12:22.611 --> 00:12:25.086 - medical students perceived 00:12:26.082 --> 00:12:32.427 - competency in this area. So they did a study on the frequency of IU medical students asking about their 00:12:32.427 --> 00:12:38.649 - partners, about their patients, sexual orientation and gender identity during the course of a patient 00:12:38.649 --> 00:12:45.177 - interview or a patient interaction. They found that the number of students asking about sexual orientation 00:12:45.177 --> 00:12:49.630 - and gender identity significantly decreased with every year of training. 00:12:49.762 --> 00:12:56.212 - Reasons that these students cited included believing that this is irrelevant to the encounter, limiting 00:12:56.212 --> 00:13:02.662 - inquiries to patients with sexual health complaints only, and negative influence from their attendings. 00:13:02.662 --> 00:13:08.926 - However, it's been pretty demonstrated that discussing the sexual orientation and gender identity of 00:13:08.926 --> 00:13:15.252 - patients can allow for more patient-centered care, even in contexts where it may not seem necessarily 00:13:15.252 --> 00:13:16.926 - relevant. This can improve 00:13:17.410 --> 00:13:37.054 - patient physician trust and sexual and gender minority health as a whole. Okay yeah so. 00:13:37.826 --> 00:13:44.703 - That was, those were studies that were conducted by medical students. We sort of cite those as our founding 00:13:44.703 --> 00:13:51.263 - studies and kind of like as a reason for existing. There's other studies that exist that show that the 00:13:51.263 --> 00:13:57.758 - self-assessed LGBTQ care competency of healthcare professionals tend to, they tend to rate themselves 00:13:57.758 --> 00:14:04.126 - lower in this field rather than in fields, or rather than in discussing cisgender patient concerns. 00:14:05.250 --> 00:14:11.906 - The knowledge gap permeates all facets of healthcare, so not only is it about sexual health as we've 00:14:11.906 --> 00:14:18.958 - discussed, but the trust relationship that can come along with having these discussions with your provider 00:14:18.958 --> 00:14:25.746 - can really improve healthcare and improve the patient relationship in all facets of healthcare and all 00:14:25.746 --> 00:14:27.262 - aspects of healthcare. 00:14:27.554 --> 00:14:34.533 - aspects of the patient relationship. So the point of the GDQC is not only to provide gender affirming 00:14:34.533 --> 00:14:41.512 - care, but it is to cultivate skills in future physicians and to cultivate affirming skills as well as 00:14:41.512 --> 00:14:46.302 - patient relationship skills and communication skills in our students. 00:14:49.986 --> 00:14:55.593 - research has consistently shown that additional education about sexual orientation and gender identity 00:14:55.593 --> 00:15:01.037 - is needed at all levels of medical training, not just in the medical school curriculum, but beyond. 00:15:01.037 --> 00:15:06.808 - And our findings show that the hidden curriculum of, well, hidden curriculum, quote unquote, about health 00:15:06.808 --> 00:15:12.252 - care for minority populations can be really powerful and can really improve students' understanding 00:15:12.252 --> 00:15:17.805 - of their patients and really improve that patient-physician relationship. We hope to model acceptance 00:15:17.805 --> 00:15:19.710 - of and respect for LGBTQ patients. 00:15:20.354 --> 00:15:27.857 - through our clinic, and we believe this could go a long way for countering bias and distrust in health 00:15:27.857 --> 00:15:34.558 - care and ultimately help address health care disparities in the LGBTQ community in Indiana. 00:15:34.690 --> 00:15:40.427 - A little bit of basic info about our clinic. We meet once a month, second Sunday of every month, at 00:15:40.427 --> 00:15:46.336 - the IU Health Clinic on South Roger Street. So when we say underinsured, we mean folks whose insurance 00:15:46.336 --> 00:15:52.131 - is not accepted by IU Health because we are related to IU Health. We cannot accept patients who have 00:15:52.131 --> 00:15:58.098 - insurance that would be accepted by IU Health. We tend to make exceptions for urgent cases or for folks 00:15:58.098 --> 00:16:03.835 - that have been consistently seeing us but recently obtained insurance but still have an appointment 00:16:03.835 --> 00:16:04.638 - on the books. 00:16:04.770 --> 00:16:08.510 - These are kind of in the weeds, but we really do try to be flexible. 00:16:09.122 --> 00:16:14.885 - For those who are insured and get in contact with us, we have three physicians that we can sort of vouch 00:16:14.885 --> 00:16:20.647 - for in their gender-affirming care competency. So Dr. Cassandra Dishman-Kessler is the primary physician 00:16:20.647 --> 00:16:26.465 - that works with us. She was the physician that helped us found the clinic, and we work out of her clinic, 00:16:26.465 --> 00:16:32.173 - and we really could not do this without her. But her, Dr. Rebecca Cohen and Dr. Laura Knudsen are three 00:16:32.173 --> 00:16:37.716 - physicians that work with us in the clinic, and they're also physicians that we refer patients to if 00:16:37.716 --> 00:16:39.088 - they are insured because 00:16:39.088 --> 00:16:44.212 - We know that we can count on them to provide Compton LGBTQ care. In the clinic, medical students do 00:16:44.212 --> 00:16:49.592 - the majority of the work. The patient comes in, we take the vitals, we discuss, you know, whatever might 00:16:49.592 --> 00:16:54.717 - be bringing them in, and then we present the issues to the staffing physician, and then the student 00:16:54.717 --> 00:16:59.841 - and physician will go back in together. So every patient will see a physician, of course, but it is 00:16:59.841 --> 00:17:04.350 - kind of the medical students that do the kind of the upfront patient interaction first. 00:17:06.914 --> 00:17:14.127 - So we do everything a primary kidney can do, prescriptions, screenings, long-term medication management. 00:17:14.127 --> 00:17:21.341 - A new development for us that has been really huge and exciting is that we now can do on-site lab draws. 00:17:21.341 --> 00:17:28.210 - So we can do blood draws. We can do urine samples. We can do swabs for STI screens. So we can check 00:17:28.210 --> 00:17:34.462 - on hormone therapy levels, general health maintenance, like cholesterol, you know, lipids. 00:17:34.530 --> 00:17:40.535 - STI testing and pap smears. So we could do a lot and it is really, really exciting that we can offer 00:17:40.535 --> 00:17:46.540 - a more whole and kind of like holistic healthcare model. Then for things that we can't do, referrals 00:17:46.540 --> 00:17:52.664 - to specialists, we have connections to gender affirming care in Indianapolis for surgery and such that 00:17:52.664 --> 00:17:58.729 - we can't provide here. We are trying to build our list of mental health counselors that we also have, 00:17:58.729 --> 00:18:04.496 - that we also know are LGBTQ affirming and safe to send our patients to. And then we also provide 00:18:04.496 --> 00:18:11.314 - on safe sex practices, trans rights, and community resources. We give out a lot of stuff, a lot of safe 00:18:11.314 --> 00:18:14.526 - sex supplies, naloxone, masks, things like this. 00:18:16.226 --> 00:18:21.853 - So we have really tried to become integrated into our community. It's really important to us that we 00:18:21.853 --> 00:18:27.703 - are like integrated in Bloomington and that we know what already exists here so that we're not providing 00:18:27.703 --> 00:18:33.330 - something that's redundant and that we can point people towards resources that we can provide. So we 00:18:33.330 --> 00:18:35.614 - have met with and spoken to all of these 00:18:36.322 --> 00:18:42.517 - Different organizations here and we really feel that it's important to educate our patients on what 00:18:42.517 --> 00:18:48.899 - there is out there. So HIV testing and prep. There's positive link path for you provides birth control 00:18:48.899 --> 00:18:50.014 - all over Indiana. 00:18:50.498 --> 00:18:56.710 - We have connections with the Hoosier Health Food Bank, Indiana Legal Services, as well as the Maurer 00:18:56.710 --> 00:19:02.922 - Law School, County Health Department. We also partner with the Indiana Rural Health Association, and 00:19:02.922 --> 00:19:09.319 - they are able to assist people with insurance navigation. We've been in contact with the Mobility Aided 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:12.702 - Lending Library. Overall, we just want to show that we 00:19:12.898 --> 00:19:18.395 - really believe in a holistic health care model where health is not just about your physical health, 00:19:18.395 --> 00:19:23.892 - but also your food security, housing security, mental health, all of these things that kind of come 00:19:23.892 --> 00:19:29.608 - together that are necessary for someone to live through health and wellness. So we really tried to make 00:19:29.608 --> 00:19:35.270 - sure that we were aware of the community resources that we have and that we are giving out these, that 00:19:35.270 --> 00:19:40.382 - we're giving out information so that people can utilize everything that's available to them. 00:19:41.314 --> 00:19:47.075 - In terms of funding, we get a majority of our funding through the IU Foundation Women's Philanthropy 00:19:47.075 --> 00:19:52.894 - and Queer Philanthropy Circle. We actually just got another grant about a month ago for about $14,000 00:19:52.894 --> 00:19:58.655 - from them, which we are really, really excited about and grateful for because it allows us to expand 00:19:58.655 --> 00:20:04.360 - our lab practices and expand the amount of supplies that we can stock and give out. We also started 00:20:04.360 --> 00:20:07.326 - focusing on raising community donations in the last 00:20:07.970 --> 00:20:12.094 - year or so, year and a half, I think in 2020. 00:20:13.474 --> 00:20:19.656 - I would say the second half of 2025 and the first half of 2026, we raised about $5,000, which was really 00:20:19.656 --> 00:20:25.602 - huge for us. This is primarily from local donors. We have a drag show fundraiser at the back door at 00:20:25.602 --> 00:20:31.548 - the end of every sort of school semester. So every May and December, we've had two so far, and we're 00:20:31.548 --> 00:20:37.553 - going on our third, which is really huge for us. Shout out Keller for organizing. So this is a really 00:20:37.553 --> 00:20:43.440 - fun way to, again, engage with the community, raise some money, and spread some awareness about our 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:50.396 - So we're really excited about the way that things are going. We're really expanding our services, and 00:20:50.396 --> 00:20:57.284 - we're expanding our funding sources as well. So future goals, something that we're currently working 00:20:57.284 --> 00:21:04.376 - on is partnering with the IU pharmacies to get discounted prescription costs and cover medication costs 00:21:04.376 --> 00:21:10.718 - for our patients. So we can work out a deal with these pharmacies and pay a discounted cost. 00:21:10.850 --> 00:21:16.570 - on behalf of our patients if they're not able to afford their medications. Some kind of long-term goals 00:21:16.570 --> 00:21:22.236 - as well is providing its print transportation assistance to patients. We've actually had patients come 00:21:22.236 --> 00:21:27.901 - from South Bend to come to our clinic and several patients coming from South Bend. And so we're trying 00:21:27.901 --> 00:21:33.622 - to figure out how to fund gas cards or Uber vouchers for people so that they can make it so that that's 00:21:33.622 --> 00:21:34.942 - not a barrier for them. 00:21:35.138 --> 00:21:41.061 - Of course, we're always looking to increase funding. We're hoping to increase clinic days. Our capacity 00:21:41.061 --> 00:21:47.098 - is not huge. You know, we're able to see about five or six new patients a month and five or six follow-up 00:21:47.098 --> 00:21:52.965 - patients a month. And so for the last few months, we've been fully booked and we're pretty much booked 00:21:52.965 --> 00:21:56.382 - for September and pretty close to being booked for October. 00:21:56.834 --> 00:22:03.585 - So we're trying to increase our capacity however we can because we know that with the cuts to Medicaid 00:22:03.585 --> 00:22:10.598 - that are happening that we may we are seeing an increase in demand and we're seeing an increase in patient 00:22:10.598 --> 00:22:15.710 - increase. So we really want to be a consistent source of quality health care. 00:22:18.114 --> 00:22:25.396 - a little plug for our drag sale fundraiser on December 11th at the back door. It's sponsored by Stonewall 00:22:25.396 --> 00:22:32.266 - Sports in Indianapolis, as well as some local business sponsors that we have every year. So we do a 00:22:32.266 --> 00:22:39.342 - raffle. We charge, I think, $10 for admission. And it's really huge for our community engagement. It's 00:22:39.342 --> 00:22:45.182 - a really fun event. We have a ton of fun, of course, every time. So spread the word. 00:22:46.754 --> 00:22:53.603 - Yeah. Oh, they're so good. Oh, they're so good. Yeah. So we get like a bunch of local drag queens to 00:22:53.603 --> 00:23:00.792 - come in and do shows. And then we also host our own little raffle. We crocheted little boobs and penises. 00:23:00.792 --> 00:23:07.641 - And they give them out as like little key chains. And those were really fun. But we also have family 00:23:07.641 --> 00:23:14.558 - friendly. Well, it's not true. It's at a bar. So it's not it's not family friendly. I won't say that. 00:23:15.138 --> 00:23:21.395 - it's a really fun event and we really like to engage their community and yeah we're just hoping to keep 00:23:21.395 --> 00:23:27.472 - expanding and one more note that I want to say before we end is that even though that we are focused 00:23:27.472 --> 00:23:33.548 - on LGBTQ health care because that is a huge disparity in our country right now we see anybody we see 00:23:33.548 --> 00:23:34.270 - any patient 00:23:34.530 --> 00:23:41.662 - any problem as long as they meet our insurance requirements. We're absolutely very happy to provide 00:23:41.662 --> 00:23:49.008 - primary care to any Cishet patient in our community or in Indiana because we just believe that primary 00:23:49.008 --> 00:23:56.211 - health care is a right for everyone and everyone and anyone. So you certainly don't have to be LGBTQ 00:23:56.211 --> 00:24:02.558 - to come and we'd be very happy to help you out no matter what. So yeah. I would say that 00:24:04.130 --> 00:24:10.046 - 75% of our patient population is LGBTQ, but there is a solid quarter of people that are just seeking 00:24:10.046 --> 00:24:16.021 - primary care and come into clinic. You are not a part of the community. Yeah, we're very happy to run 00:24:16.021 --> 00:24:22.112 - lipid panels or check your cholesterol or your blood pressure or help you with your diabetes medication 00:24:22.112 --> 00:24:27.970 - or whatever it may be. So yeah, we just want to emphasize that point as well. I think that's pretty 00:24:27.970 --> 00:24:33.886 - much all we've got. Thank you. Yeah, please, any questions? Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. 00:24:34.050 --> 00:24:41.067 - You probably know the answers already. And I say that because Jennifer and I met while working at Planned 00:24:41.067 --> 00:24:47.754 - Parenthood many years ago. But I'm trying, I mean, like, so what, and I was trying to figure out the 00:24:47.754 --> 00:24:54.573 - difference between, you know, the services the clinic offers versus, you know, Planned Parenthood. But 00:24:54.573 --> 00:25:01.326 - you're like saying it's primary care, so it's more than just services that Planned Parenthood or even 00:25:01.326 --> 00:25:02.782 - the health department 00:25:03.330 --> 00:25:08.999 - Yeah, right and then what about I don't know what health nut does anymore. So what is But they do it 00:25:08.999 --> 00:25:14.611 - all they have psych services dental. They do it all they have a pharmacy there also Yeah, we sent a 00:25:14.611 --> 00:25:20.280 - few patients We've given patients health nuts information because we don't have an OBGYN GYN on site 00:25:20.280 --> 00:25:25.892 - and things like that So health that's able to provide more specialty services than we are for sure. 00:25:25.892 --> 00:25:30.270 - Would you say scale also? Would you say that are they LGBTQ plus friend like? 00:25:30.882 --> 00:25:36.258 - I would assume, but I mean, I don't actually I don't want to assume, but I would say so. Yeah, we've 00:25:36.258 --> 00:25:41.794 - talked to them and they are. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. We provide similar services, 00:25:41.794 --> 00:25:47.117 - definitely. And you know, we met with them in the kind of beginning to kind of discuss how we could 00:25:47.117 --> 00:25:52.546 - kind of complement each other's services. I would say that we provide maybe more specialized service, 00:25:52.546 --> 00:25:58.082 - but we absolutely, you know, endorse their clinic as well. And we just, you know, hope that we can kind 00:25:58.082 --> 00:26:00.318 - of work together to cover the population. 00:26:00.418 --> 00:26:09.501 - Do people, is it a good response to Sunday services? Because in a way, I'd be like, how many people 00:26:09.501 --> 00:26:18.494 - are open on a Sunday? Does it work for you or against you? Because I don't know. I'm just curious. 00:26:18.562 --> 00:26:24.018 - I mean, I would say that most of the time Sunday can be convenient for people because they don't work. 00:26:24.018 --> 00:26:29.368 - But on the other hand, we have a significant amount of patients who do work on Sundays. They do work 00:26:29.368 --> 00:26:34.823 - weekends. So it's not ideal, of course, to be open just one day a month. And so we're hoping to expand 00:26:34.823 --> 00:26:40.279 - that because it can be inconvenient. But because we're only open one day a month and because now we're 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:45.788 - booked out, if someone does need a more urgent visit or something like that, Health Net may be a better 00:26:45.788 --> 00:26:48.542 - option in terms of just accessing services quicker. 00:26:48.578 --> 00:26:59.538 - But yeah, we're hoping to be a little bit more flexible in the future. So how long, I may miss this, 00:26:59.538 --> 00:27:10.498 - how long has the clinic existed? When did it start? October of 24. So we are on our second year now, 00:27:10.498 --> 00:27:14.622 - operational. Is that in, when you're, 00:27:15.010 --> 00:27:21.930 - When you're looking at other places to connect up with is that like a constant like what what services 00:27:21.930 --> 00:27:29.052 - are are showing up in the community and and that's a constant conversation that's kind of. Yeah we around 00:27:29.052 --> 00:27:35.838 - yeah so we have a lot of help from our fellow medical students so we have a few committees set up so 00:27:35.838 --> 00:27:37.182 - that it's not just. 00:27:37.762 --> 00:27:46.395 - Suki and our and our co-chairs are running everything so we have a partnership committee and they're 00:27:46.395 --> 00:27:55.198 - really the ones in charge of Making those connections and maintaining them so that we like have a yeah 00:27:55.394 --> 00:28:00.992 - I'm just, are you all still having to go out and look for things, or are other services coming to you 00:28:00.992 --> 00:28:06.865 - and being like, hey, we're here to? They're starting to come to us, which is really great. That's awesome. 00:28:06.865 --> 00:28:12.463 - Yeah, we recently, several months ago, we had SCAP come to a clinic and just leave some resources and 00:28:12.463 --> 00:28:18.115 - business cards and discuss what they offer, what we offer. So it's been great to get a little bit more 00:28:18.115 --> 00:28:23.714 - established in the community over time and have people kind of know about us sometimes before we know 00:28:23.714 --> 00:28:25.360 - about them, which is amazing. 00:28:25.360 --> 00:28:32.336 - that we're using. But yeah, our Partners Committee, as Sage said, is dedicated to building community 00:28:32.336 --> 00:28:39.657 - partnerships. One thing that's really cool, too, one of my favorite recent examples, Stone Belt contacted 00:28:39.657 --> 00:28:46.839 - us and was interested in figuring out how can we help each other. And in addition to talking about what 00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:54.782 - services we could provide for each other's populations, we have educational talks that we do for medical students. 00:28:54.946 --> 00:29:01.072 - Researchers clinicians professionals in the field come chat with medical students about topics that 00:29:01.072 --> 00:29:07.198 - might be underrepresented in our curriculum. So through that connection we made with stone belt. We 00:29:07.198 --> 00:29:11.486 - actually had one of their sexuality educators come talk with us about 00:29:11.874 --> 00:29:18.218 - the topic of sexuality and intellectual and developmental disabilities and how to open those conversations 00:29:18.218 --> 00:29:24.146 - up with patients that might be interested in talking about sex but haven't been presented with that 00:29:24.146 --> 00:29:30.134 - opportunity before. And that was just one of my personal favorite connections that we've made so far 00:29:30.134 --> 00:29:36.181 - because that's not a conversation at all that we're having in school. So it was really cool. You guys 00:29:36.181 --> 00:29:40.094 - have a navigator on site if people want to sign up for insurance? 00:29:40.578 --> 00:29:46.999 - who are not currently insured? So we have them, we on our like sort of intake form, we have them indicate 00:29:46.999 --> 00:29:53.239 - whether or not they would like to be connected with the Indiana Rural Health Network. And then we send 00:29:53.239 --> 00:29:59.479 - our patient's phone number to the Indiana Rural Health Network and they take over from there and reach 00:29:59.479 --> 00:30:04.446 - out. So AHEC is the one who's setting them up for insurance, correct? Yeah, yeah. 00:30:04.738 --> 00:30:09.350 - What about the med student participation? Is it picking up or is it kind of like like you have a wait 00:30:09.350 --> 00:30:12.606 - list for appointments? Is there a wait list for students interested in? 00:30:13.058 --> 00:30:19.089 - serving and being there. Med students are busy so sometimes it is a little bit it's a little bit pulling 00:30:19.089 --> 00:30:25.062 - teeth to get people not know like people are pretty enthusiastic and every med student class that comes 00:30:25.062 --> 00:30:31.093 - in we have more and more people say that like the clinic it was a big reason that they chose Bloomington 00:30:31.093 --> 00:30:36.894 - because yes it's really a lot most recent year and it was really cool yeah we're having like the Inc 00:30:36.962 --> 00:30:42.872 - we're doing first years right now. They people have to apply to be part of our clinic to be part of 00:30:42.872 --> 00:30:48.842 - the committees and stuff. And a few of them have indicated that this is a big reason why they choose 00:30:48.842 --> 00:30:54.871 - Bloomington, which just makes us really, really happy. This design, you know this. Yes, yes, yes. Our 00:30:54.871 --> 00:31:00.840 - Dean Dean Hitler is pretty supportive of the clinic and I think that you know having the clinic here 00:31:00.840 --> 00:31:05.214 - is a big boon for Bloomington. It gives students of really big really in. 00:31:05.506 --> 00:31:12.142 - like important exposure to patients and really really useful clinical experience. Not only the fact 00:31:12.142 --> 00:31:18.978 - that it's. Underrepresented like portion of health care but it's just you know an experience it's it's 00:31:18.978 --> 00:31:21.566 - a chance to interact with patients so. 00:31:21.666 --> 00:31:27.507 - Yeah, I think we have, we staff our clinics pretty well. I would say we have a significant amount of 00:31:27.507 --> 00:31:33.290 - medical students from all four classes that are coming to help out. And yeah, as we expand, we need 00:31:33.290 --> 00:31:39.362 - more and more of them. So getting fully staffed can be a little difficult sometimes, but we have a bunch 00:31:39.362 --> 00:31:45.376 - of students that are interested and dedicated and really good at helping out. One thing that was really 00:31:45.376 --> 00:31:49.598 - cool, our last clinic, we had, I think there were 12 students and we had 00:31:50.050 --> 00:31:56.489 - 11 patients on the books. So for every patient, there was at least one medical student in attendance 00:31:56.489 --> 00:31:59.294 - at clinic, which I thought was really cool. 00:32:00.098 --> 00:32:05.678 - And you said this is giving med students experience. Is it counting towards getting the degree? I'm 00:32:05.678 --> 00:32:11.761 - not quite sure how the medical degree works. Not exactly. There's not a requirement that they're fulfilling. 00:32:11.761 --> 00:32:17.453 - But as an extracurricular activity, as a volunteer activity, we do count our volunteer hours. So this 00:32:17.453 --> 00:32:23.144 - counts towards that. And it's definitely an experience that is significant to a lot of people to talk 00:32:23.144 --> 00:32:28.892 - about later when they're applying to residency and stuff. So we do definitely think there's a material 00:32:28.892 --> 00:32:30.064 - benefit to students. 00:32:30.064 --> 00:32:35.659 - One other thing that I'll just bring up briefly is that we're hoping to start some academic research 00:32:35.659 --> 00:32:41.253 - with our patient population. So getting, you know, our names on some papers is always a big boon for 00:32:41.253 --> 00:32:46.793 - medical students as well, having some academic work. And then, of course, it's really beneficial to 00:32:46.793 --> 00:32:49.950 - the clinic to understand who is our patient demographic, 00:32:50.018 --> 00:32:57.304 - Why do they come to our clinic? What barriers exist to them for health care? What reasons do they cite 00:32:57.304 --> 00:33:04.589 - as either barriers to health care or barriers to other things in their lives, such as issues with food 00:33:04.589 --> 00:33:11.875 - and housing insecurity? So getting to know the patient population a little bit better is also a really 00:33:11.875 --> 00:33:17.534 - big goal of ours, because it helps inform us how we can support them. One more. 00:33:17.634 --> 00:33:23.855 - I can ask about. I'm wondering about for you because you were talking about patients needing transportation 00:33:23.855 --> 00:33:29.731 - help and you're looking around trying to figure out ways to get that help for them. Is there is there 00:33:29.731 --> 00:33:35.780 - kind of like a grant writing committee that's part of this that's looking at trying to get grant funding 00:33:35.780 --> 00:33:41.943 - for things like that? We have our finance committee and they're in charge of one thing that I also there's 00:33:41.943 --> 00:33:44.478 - everything about this clinic is so awesome. 00:33:44.578 --> 00:33:51.836 - But all of our grants are student procured, which I think is really special. There's no there's 00:33:51.836 --> 00:33:59.548 - no professional like helping us raise these grants. And so I think it's a really awesome achievement. 00:33:59.548 --> 00:34:03.102 - All of our funding is student procured. And so 00:34:03.266 --> 00:34:10.392 - That's one of the goals for the committee this year is trying to diversify where some of our funding 00:34:10.392 --> 00:34:17.729 - comes from. As Suki mentioned, so far a lot of it is through IU Affinity Giving, the Women's Leadership 00:34:17.729 --> 00:34:25.278 - Council, and Queer Philanthropy Circle, and then community funding from our fundraiser. And we always have 00:34:25.378 --> 00:34:31.797 - a philanthropy link on our website that people can donate to at any time, but that's a big goal of our 00:34:31.797 --> 00:34:38.216 - finance committee this year is trying to diversify some of our funding sources. It occurred to me that 00:34:38.216 --> 00:34:44.635 - the Indiana State Chapter of the National Organization for Women might be, I know in the past that now 00:34:44.635 --> 00:34:51.117 - has specifically funded transportation to go vote, so that's kind of a thing at the national level that 00:34:51.117 --> 00:34:52.862 - they've been interested in. 00:34:53.058 --> 00:34:59.265 - transportation needs for voting. So transportation needs for health care. I could see that. I was thinking 00:34:59.265 --> 00:35:05.182 - the same thing, funny enough. So and there's no there's no there's no county chapter here anymore. We 00:35:05.182 --> 00:35:10.983 - did have a county chapter for now, but the state still has Indiana State. What was it called again? 00:35:10.983 --> 00:35:15.102 - National Organization for Women. And there's an Indiana State chapter. 00:35:15.810 --> 00:35:21.669 - Thank you for sharing. That definitely sounds like our values might align. It would be good to get in 00:35:21.669 --> 00:35:27.413 - touch. They would want to know about you. Yes. Thank you. That would be great. It was huge. I mean, 00:35:27.413 --> 00:35:33.272 - we're always looking for connections because some of us come from out of state. We're all pretty busy 00:35:33.272 --> 00:35:39.303 - with our schoolwork, obviously. So we're always looking for a connection or a recommendation for funding 00:35:39.303 --> 00:35:44.990 - or community resource or whatever. So we're super open to hearing any suggestions that anyone has. 00:35:45.218 --> 00:35:55.160 - tell sorry did you guys have well so tell us how like where can we find information about i know you 00:35:55.160 --> 00:36:05.201 - so you have a website social media yeah um we have our instagram gdqc underscore b town is that right 00:36:05.201 --> 00:36:12.190 - b town now um our website is gdqc bloomington dot square space dot com 00:36:12.546 --> 00:36:19.023 - So yeah, I mean we also have Facebook under the same name you can get in touch with us through any of 00:36:19.023 --> 00:36:25.436 - those avenues our appointment Booking link is on our website as well as other contact information if 00:36:25.436 --> 00:36:31.913 - anyone Wants to get in touch. We're always available. We will also be tabling at Bloomington pride if 00:36:31.913 --> 00:36:37.374 - anyone wants to come chat We're always at Bloomington pride Indie pride Spencer pride 00:36:37.730 --> 00:36:44.165 - We're happy to talk if anyone wants to come chat about the clinic. We'll have lots of stickers. 00:36:44.165 --> 00:36:51.203 - Thank you. Lots of stickers. Thank you, Susan. Lots of business cards and pamphlets and all of the above 00:36:51.203 --> 00:36:58.106 - and a big old poster about all of our offerings. So even if you don't want to come talk to us, you can 00:36:58.106 --> 00:37:05.077 - come read about what we do. Can you drive by? Mm-hmm. Jennifer's probably already there going, I wonder 00:37:05.077 --> 00:37:06.686 - how I can get involved. 00:37:06.818 --> 00:37:13.850 - I was just gonna extend. I'm speaking for myself, but I'm speaking probably for even the ones who aren't 00:37:13.850 --> 00:37:20.749 - here, but I would lend my time, resource, anything that I can do, outreach, and come hang out with you 00:37:20.749 --> 00:37:26.174 - guys with whatever you need. He's a nurse, too. I mean, with lots of experience. 00:37:26.530 --> 00:37:32.108 - Lots of experience. That's amazing. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that. When this is a finance 00:37:32.108 --> 00:37:37.525 - meeting, I want to come to the finance meeting, because I have a lot, like, I mean, there's a lot of 00:37:37.525 --> 00:37:43.049 - us, I think, that would, I would certainly, as you know, I've been, and I know it's hard to figure out 00:37:43.049 --> 00:37:48.734 - how to handle donors that aren't student, or not donors, but volunteers, that aren't students that aren't 00:37:48.734 --> 00:37:52.542 - affiliated with IU Health that can help, but I know they're, you know, 00:37:52.866 --> 00:37:59.286 - I mean, I certainly would, Marty, like, how can I get involved with finance? Because, you know, great 00:37:59.286 --> 00:38:05.768 - writing experience is just the resources. And I know it's it's difficult to add that time into it, but 00:38:05.768 --> 00:38:12.566 - I know I would certainly be happy to help in any way. Yeah, definitely. I was going to say we so appreciate 00:38:12.566 --> 00:38:18.923 - that. And I guess two things. One, currently working on trying to partner with the nursing school so 00:38:18.923 --> 00:38:19.678 - that we can 00:38:19.874 --> 00:38:26.837 - I mean, benefit to the nursing students and to our patients as well to see a more complete care team. 00:38:26.837 --> 00:38:33.868 - And so that's something that we're currently at social work. We have reached out to social work. Yeah, 00:38:33.868 --> 00:38:40.831 - I don't think that the we haven't been able to like under what it was because there's something about 00:38:40.831 --> 00:38:47.657 - because I remember there was Emily's sibling and there was something weird when we tried to connect 00:38:47.657 --> 00:38:49.022 - with them regarding 00:38:52.226 --> 00:38:57.972 - I think it was because our patient population isn't students, and they're like, I don't know exactly 00:38:57.972 --> 00:39:03.719 - what it was. I remember there was some barrier that partnerships encountered. It can be like a legal 00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:09.408 - thing where, so at our clinic, the only people that are allowed to be at the clinic are people that 00:39:09.408 --> 00:39:15.155 - are covered by malpractice insurance through IU School of Medicine. So we have tried to partner with 00:39:15.155 --> 00:39:21.470 - social work. So it's something that we're working on still. It's sometimes hard to get in touch with everyone. 00:39:21.666 --> 00:39:31.116 - I was talking about this with actually Finley a couple days ago, and just in this way, and just in this 00:39:31.116 --> 00:39:40.476 - sense of, I want to support, I want to amplify, but also sometimes I'm like, in the political climates 00:39:40.476 --> 00:39:51.198 - that we're in, it's like, how do you get out there, but also kind of fly under the radar? Is it frustrating, that is? 00:39:51.362 --> 00:40:01.119 - A part of that question for me is how committed, and I know Dr. DK is a big advocate and supporter, 00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:11.170 - is that how much support has IU Health committed to? Or is it something you worry about? We don't have 00:40:11.170 --> 00:40:12.926 - to talk about it. 00:40:13.698 --> 00:40:22.263 - I can't speak too much to the internal workings of IU Health. There are sometimes some moments where 00:40:22.263 --> 00:40:31.422 - we are a little concerned, you know, for the future. I will say the Bloomington campus has been supportive. 00:40:31.586 --> 00:40:37.975 - for, you know, for the vast majority of what we're trying to do. But it's really just, you know, at 00:40:37.975 --> 00:40:44.428 - a state and national level when we start seeing things like the government trying to get involved in 00:40:44.428 --> 00:40:51.009 - curriculum and funding is just when we start to get worried because the school has certain things that 00:40:51.009 --> 00:40:52.670 - they have to comply with. 00:40:53.090 --> 00:41:00.281 - I don't feel like our existence has been threatened at all and we work on one of our priorities for 00:41:00.281 --> 00:41:07.832 - that reason is independent funding so that we can make sure that we secure funding outside of the school 00:41:07.832 --> 00:41:09.918 - were something to happen to. 00:41:10.370 --> 00:41:17.884 - the amount of support that the school and IU Health is able to provide. And I also will say, we are 00:41:17.884 --> 00:41:25.698 - medical students through the School of Medicine, obviously, but the clinic is associated with IU Health 00:41:25.698 --> 00:41:33.738 - because it is a clinical service. So we sort of exist in both worlds, and that can be kind of an advantage 00:41:33.738 --> 00:41:36.894 - because we can provide a clinical service 00:41:37.058 --> 00:41:41.310 - and an educational service. And so we have a pretty good 00:41:41.922 --> 00:41:48.820 - sort of like a reason to exist in both spheres that is pretty well demonstrated. So, you know, I do 00:41:48.820 --> 00:41:55.718 - feel like we have a pretty decent amount of support from our institutions right now. And especially 00:41:55.718 --> 00:42:02.891 - the most important part is really support from the students because that's kind of what we need to keep 00:42:02.891 --> 00:42:10.686 - going is staff and engaged folks. And so as long as the community and the students are engaged and enthusiastic, 00:42:11.362 --> 00:42:18.548 - I think we're going to be good. You know, I mean, we're the women's commission for the county, and we 00:42:18.548 --> 00:42:25.734 - advise the county commissioners and the county council. So it occurred to me, like, is there anything 00:42:25.734 --> 00:42:32.638 - that the county could do to support? I'm contemplating things like space or storage or, you know, 00:42:32.866 --> 00:42:38.995 - I don't know, sharing that you exist as part of Monroe County information. Sharing that we exist is 00:42:38.995 --> 00:42:45.736 - probably the number one thing. We really just want to make sure that people know that we're there, especially 00:42:45.736 --> 00:42:48.126 - as I said before, our name can perhaps 00:42:48.226 --> 00:42:54.714 - seem to kind of put us into a narrow area. But again, we want to emphasize that anyone that is without 00:42:54.714 --> 00:43:01.266 - health care right now, which is a growing number of people, is very, very welcome to come to our clinic 00:43:01.266 --> 00:43:07.817 - and receive services. So we are always looking to just amplify the word and make sure that people know. 00:43:07.817 --> 00:43:14.431 - That would seem like something that Monroe County would be interested in trying to let people know about 00:43:14.431 --> 00:43:16.510 - that are in need of health care. 00:43:17.378 --> 00:43:25.188 - Okay so let me bridge the gap now and you guys don't have to stay but I want to talk about the data 00:43:25.188 --> 00:43:33.232 - and policies committee that we have and the reason why here's my ask will be so we have two committees 00:43:33.232 --> 00:43:41.120 - that are a part of the Women's Commission it's just the way we divide up our workflow we have policy 00:43:41.120 --> 00:43:47.134 - and data which we just combined recently and then outreach which we have and 00:43:49.282 --> 00:43:59.361 - And so a part of, one of the things that we just accomplished over the summer was that we had, we worked 00:43:59.361 --> 00:44:08.959 - with a graduate class at the O'Neill School and they did a cohort project for us because one of the 00:44:08.959 --> 00:44:17.022 - big things that I'm a big fan of is data. And so we recognize easily that there is, 00:44:17.250 --> 00:44:24.166 - no data on women and amazing, I mean hugely marginalized gender. So we, you know, trying to figure out 00:44:24.166 --> 00:44:31.082 - who we serve through collection of data. So the project was with this cohort was, you know, collecting 00:44:31.082 --> 00:44:38.132 - a survey and collecting data for us. Well, it was, they had a 12 weeks, it was very small. We have their 00:44:38.132 --> 00:44:44.981 - report. It was pretty great. But one of the things that we're doing is it's called it's phase two. So 00:44:44.981 --> 00:44:45.854 - we have left 00:44:45.954 --> 00:44:53.924 - The survey open, it's run through Qualtrics, et cetera, et cetera. We're working on data collection. 00:44:53.924 --> 00:45:01.973 - Our campaign theme is Every Voice Matters, help shape the future of women and marginalized genders in 00:45:01.973 --> 00:45:08.286 - Monroe County. Obviously, a big part of that is access to health care for that. 00:45:09.090 --> 00:45:18.297 - I was like this week, I was like, oh, well, of course, I need to work with them to get help, to have 00:45:18.297 --> 00:45:27.870 - the QR code up at the clinic or to wherever, to the survey, because this is the people that we're trying 00:45:27.870 --> 00:45:37.259 - to access. And I know, I mean, I've had a couple of the conversations with people that I would, in the 00:45:37.259 --> 00:45:38.718 - community that, 00:45:38.978 --> 00:45:46.574 - you know, are hesitant about surveys. You know, hesitant about doing, you know, I mean it is anonymous. 00:45:46.574 --> 00:45:54.171 - It is, you know, there is no, really I think the most specific data that I'm interested in is zip code, 00:45:54.171 --> 00:46:01.621 - where they live just because, you know, in a GIS map I want to know where people live so you know how 00:46:01.621 --> 00:46:05.054 - far they are from services, XYZ kind of thing. 00:46:06.338 --> 00:46:13.371 - Yeah, so that was probably one of my things is, you know, I was either going to try to come down and 00:46:13.371 --> 00:46:20.543 - maybe, hopefully, if I can, during PrideFest and just bring a QR code. Please do. Like, and, you know, 00:46:20.543 --> 00:46:27.854 - just try to get, again, just, because it does. I mean, this is very, you know, they go together. I mean, 00:46:27.854 --> 00:46:32.798 - we'll eventually have our report. Is this the report through the MCEC? 00:46:33.282 --> 00:46:40.938 - Monroe County Health Equity Council. No, OK. Yeah, this is our the data doesn't exist. Yeah, yeah. And 00:46:40.938 --> 00:46:48.742 - so I just ask because I knew they also had like grad students working on something or other. So. I mean, 00:46:48.742 --> 00:46:56.249 - it just it was like, oh, of course. And I actually did present it today at the commissioners meeting 00:46:56.249 --> 00:47:02.046 - where I came and gave them. So we're an advisory body, so we don't get to act 00:47:02.146 --> 00:47:09.590 - necessarily on our own, but we get to amplify and be mindful of anything that's happening out there 00:47:09.590 --> 00:47:17.183 - to make sure all the voices are heard. One of the big projects that we have been focusing on for many 00:47:17.183 --> 00:47:24.627 - years is the jail, to make sure, I don't know if you are even aware of what's happening. I know you 00:47:24.627 --> 00:47:31.550 - guys are very busy in your school, but the jail has been sued multiple times by the ACLU for 00:47:31.810 --> 00:47:37.970 - you know, unlivable conditions, XYZ. And so they are working on either repairing or building or, 00:47:37.970 --> 00:47:44.511 - you know, all these things that they need to do. And so just one of the things that we've been focused 00:47:44.511 --> 00:47:51.306 - on is really just in the policy development, is this gender, you know, are women and marginalized genders, 00:47:51.306 --> 00:47:57.973 - how are they addressed currently? How are those, you know, when you build, are you considering all these 00:47:57.973 --> 00:48:00.958 - factors in this kind of thing? So, I mean, we, 00:48:01.378 --> 00:48:10.166 - of the gender equity rubric. Yeah, that's it's separate from that that work, but it is it could be related 00:48:10.166 --> 00:48:18.626 - depending on what they're trying to figure out. So there's a gender equity rubric that's mostly mostly 00:48:18.626 --> 00:48:26.922 - focused on policy development. So considering considering women and marginalized genders in creating 00:48:26.922 --> 00:48:30.782 - creating policy creating new, I guess new law. 00:48:30.914 --> 00:48:36.375 - or is this something that you guys developed or something that exists? Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, we 00:48:36.375 --> 00:48:41.890 - put it together and shared it and it's out there. So I don't know that it's been used to this point, 00:48:41.890 --> 00:48:47.405 - but yes, it's there. So that's really cool. I actually, Susan, I just sent you when you were talking 00:48:47.405 --> 00:48:52.866 - about data and numbers, totally agree. I sent you, we put together a 2026 so far report essentially 00:48:52.866 --> 00:48:53.630 - on what we've 00:48:53.794 --> 00:48:59.950 - accomplished, how many patients we've seen, how much funding we've raised, things like this. So if that 00:48:59.950 --> 00:49:06.224 - interests you, I just emailed it to you. And in terms of the academic work, we are working on now setting 00:49:06.224 --> 00:49:12.202 - up a database of our patients to know who they are, where they're coming from, all these numbers and 00:49:12.202 --> 00:49:18.298 - things so that we can also, as you said, understand where they're coming from, who they are, what they 00:49:18.298 --> 00:49:22.974 - need, and why they're here type of thing. So yeah, it sounds like our interest 00:49:24.098 --> 00:49:31.670 - are definitely similar and that our data is probably overlapping. Yeah. Yeah. And there is none. Yeah. 00:49:31.670 --> 00:49:39.096 - There, I mean, there is, I mean, nothing at this level. You know, there's nothing, you know, because 00:49:39.096 --> 00:49:46.374 - this feels very micro. There really isn't anything at the macro level either. And it is, you know, 00:49:46.374 --> 00:49:53.726 - I mean, it's just important to know who is here, how we can serve them. And we would love to share. 00:49:53.826 --> 00:50:02.278 - if that QR code have it at our table. No, I haven't. That's why I was like, oh, I'm going to go make 00:50:02.278 --> 00:50:11.064 - stickers. You said it as an email, though, too. You could email it to them. Yeah. I do a lot of printing 00:50:11.064 --> 00:50:19.767 - maybe for them. I would like to get you guys hooked up with Dr. Gloria Howe at the Black Culture Center 00:50:19.767 --> 00:50:22.110 - because I think that the LG 00:50:23.234 --> 00:50:31.789 - plus could help our community and knowing that you were there. Yeah, please. Yeah, we would love that. 00:50:31.789 --> 00:50:40.926 - Yeah, what is your presence like within the cultural centers on campus? I mean, the Black Culture Center, the 00:50:41.026 --> 00:50:48.357 - at the beginning we kind of we made the rounds and we put out just like some materials on the on the 00:50:48.357 --> 00:50:53.438 - campus but the thing is most of the students are insured I think many 00:50:54.050 --> 00:50:59.631 - I'm not certain about this anymore. I think they have to be insured too. I think we do. I think it's 00:50:59.631 --> 00:51:05.212 - just grad students. OK, so that might not be correct. Generally, they have the student health clinic 00:51:05.212 --> 00:51:10.738 - that a lot of them use. Yeah, the students have the student. And many are insured by their parents. 00:51:10.738 --> 00:51:16.374 - So we kind of realized. For Medicaid, Medicaid is their primary insurance. Some, when they come here, 00:51:16.374 --> 00:51:18.142 - if they're coming from like us, 00:51:18.274 --> 00:51:25.723 - century 21 scholars, they already qualify for Medicaid. So that would be their primary insurance. Yeah. 00:51:25.723 --> 00:51:33.243 - So we kind of realized over time that the students aren't necessarily our target demographic. Regardless 00:51:33.243 --> 00:51:40.478 - of that, though, we do try to extend information whenever we can. And so do you consider the Student 00:51:40.478 --> 00:51:46.494 - Health Center to be LGBTQ plus friendly? They have a specific gender affirming care 00:51:46.786 --> 00:51:53.930 - Center that one of our volunteer physicians actually helped to get started. So they actually do have 00:51:53.930 --> 00:52:01.215 - really comprehensive Services and provide a lot of affirming care Yeah, yeah, it is really cool in the 00:52:01.215 --> 00:52:08.288 - IU affinity grant day that Keller one of our co-chairs and I presented at this year in Indianapolis 00:52:08.288 --> 00:52:10.622 - there actually was a physician I 00:52:10.850 --> 00:52:17.928 - I cannot remember his name off the top of my head, but from the Student Health Center. And he had a 00:52:17.928 --> 00:52:25.359 - very similar poster to ours about procuring funds for gender affirming care services for students. Yeah, 00:52:25.359 --> 00:52:32.791 - I mean, it's just crazy. I know this because I work at the med school too. I just you know this is such. 00:52:32.791 --> 00:52:38.878 - I mean it is a great and it has so much room to grow, but I also know how crazy busy. 00:52:39.394 --> 00:52:46.855 - Everybody is already limited by our own time. Just just like such a shame. But just the biggest bummer. 00:52:46.855 --> 00:52:54.100 - Yeah, it's really frustrating. Yeah. And that's why I do think that I mean, it was a medical student 00:52:54.100 --> 00:53:02.206 - conceptualized and founded, which I think is really special. But as we're talking about ways to collaborate with 00:53:02.306 --> 00:53:09.205 - other members of our community there are people who in theory would be able to dedicate more time than 00:53:09.205 --> 00:53:16.170 - we have. Immediately I'm like because I started a non-profit myself last year you know I'm like so what 00:53:16.170 --> 00:53:23.002 - needs to happen is it needs you to go out to you know you know I mean technically if you're like okay 00:53:23.002 --> 00:53:29.566 - so someone out there in the community starts a non-profit you know that is engaged so that way it 00:53:29.858 --> 00:53:35.780 - some of the work comes out of you and it is becoming like, you know, so it comes out of just in the 00:53:35.780 --> 00:53:41.466 - med school and now it's like, can be, yeah, that way, you know, we can, you know, people could, 00:53:41.466 --> 00:53:47.506 - you know, work on the finance team, still work with the school, but there are other partners that can 00:53:47.506 --> 00:53:53.547 - lighten the load. Yeah, no, I mean, it's a really wonderful idea. To be completely honest, it's never 00:53:53.547 --> 00:53:57.278 - fully occurred to me that we could have outside partners that, 00:53:57.506 --> 00:54:07.454 - I feel like it has been just such an exercise like hybrid independence. You have your blinders on in school. 00:54:08.002 --> 00:54:14.364 - This is our whole world is this little bubble right now from a fire hose and multiple fire hoses yeah 00:54:14.364 --> 00:54:20.726 - I love that idea because I have I I've thought about it before when I'm thinking about like oh I just 00:54:20.726 --> 00:54:26.963 - like wish that we had more time to do. Yeah like I don't even we don't even don't even have time to 00:54:26.963 --> 00:54:27.774 - think about. 00:54:27.842 --> 00:54:34.161 - I feel like we're in a really awesome spot right now because we've we've expanded our patient base like 00:54:34.161 --> 00:54:40.238 - our clinics are fully booked we're offering our lab services we've secured the funding that we need 00:54:40.238 --> 00:54:46.314 - to continue existing over the next couple years and so I feel like I mean if there were ever a time 00:54:46.314 --> 00:54:52.512 - to explore something like that it's probably now it's at the it's this isn't county but with the city 00:54:52.512 --> 00:54:56.158 - they've got the volunteer network so that's where they post 00:54:56.290 --> 00:55:02.548 - volunteer opportunities that are available in the community. So if that is something that you have, 00:55:02.548 --> 00:55:08.931 - you know, the capacity to have committees that are, you know, filled with folks in the community that 00:55:08.931 --> 00:55:15.376 - want to volunteer, that would be one way to. That has been, I, we have. Thank you guys for coming. Let 00:55:15.376 --> 00:55:21.821 - me know what I can do. They have my information. Dr. Gloria, I can't remember. Gloria Howe. Yes. She's 00:55:21.821 --> 00:55:26.014 - the director of the Neal Marshall. Are you writing that down also? 00:55:26.210 --> 00:55:34.015 - Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. You too. But yeah, there definitely is no shortage of interest. We have 00:55:34.015 --> 00:55:41.820 - people emailing us, DMing us on Instagram all the time, which is truly incredible. And it is just what 00:55:41.820 --> 00:55:49.474 - we're talking about. It's really heartwarming to see. It's only frustrating in the sense that we are 00:55:49.474 --> 00:55:52.126 - trying to figure out how to better 00:55:52.706 --> 00:55:58.320 - create opportunities. You know, we've had undergrads ask about volunteering, but we can't have them 00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:04.159 - in the clinic. So we're like, okay, you know, the places where we could use help is like in fundraising 00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:09.886 - and in spreading the word. So we're trying to figure out like established ways. But yeah, again, like 00:56:09.886 --> 00:56:15.893 - because we're just, you know, we're only limited by our time. So we try to, I would say that we've really, 00:56:15.893 --> 00:56:19.262 - at this point, it took probably about a year to like really 00:56:19.682 --> 00:56:26.690 - keep our heads above water and figure out our processes to a point where the clinic is smoothly operating. 00:56:26.690 --> 00:56:33.370 - And because we scaled up pretty significantly within the last six months with labs and stuff, it was, 00:56:33.370 --> 00:56:40.050 - again, a significant challenge just to figure out how to operate from the day to day. And so now that 00:56:40.050 --> 00:56:46.206 - we have done that, now that we have created kind of like a foundation of logistics and stuff, 00:56:46.690 --> 00:56:51.685 - Now it's maybe a time that we can expand to the community in a way that we really hoped to. 00:56:51.685 --> 00:56:57.114 - So it's really, it is really, really heartwarming to like have people reach out and for you guys to 00:56:57.114 --> 00:57:02.760 - invite us and things like this. It's really, we've always, we want to be involved in the community like 00:57:02.760 --> 00:57:08.352 - this. It's a value that is like very deeply held. So it's really exciting to have these conversations. 00:57:08.352 --> 00:57:13.835 - I'm also thinking like, well, cause you're, one of your stick, one of the big things that, you know, 00:57:13.835 --> 00:57:15.518 - we've been talking about here, 00:57:16.290 --> 00:57:23.030 - is period poverty, of course, you know, and so, you know, it's like, you know, how much can you add 00:57:23.030 --> 00:57:30.175 - on, you know, and it's like, oh, well, you know, maybe, you know, those kind of things because healthcare 00:57:30.175 --> 00:57:36.714 - in general and access to everything is, I don't know, hard. How you, how that all gets done and, 00:57:36.714 --> 00:57:43.454 - you know, when you're volunteering your time, I understand, like, you know, it's hard and busy and, 00:57:43.618 --> 00:57:51.346 - trying to find motivation sometimes when you're drowning in a million other projects is, you know, 00:57:51.346 --> 00:57:59.152 - it's a lot, but. Exactly. So. We are too. We really wanted to do this. We did. It's hard, you know, 00:57:59.152 --> 00:58:06.958 - but we're really happy to be here. I mean, we're all volunteers to come here and for us even, like, 00:58:06.958 --> 00:58:09.534 - you know, all these projects and 00:58:10.018 --> 00:58:18.902 - ideas that we have and want to do. And, you know, it's hard when, you know, it's hard coordinating and 00:58:18.902 --> 00:58:27.526 - being motivated even when they are passion projects to do so. But I will probably do some stuff and 00:58:27.526 --> 00:58:36.410 - either print off and leave for you guys to put down at the tent for tomorrow or Saturday. I don't know 00:58:36.410 --> 00:58:37.790 - what day it is. 00:58:38.882 --> 00:58:46.458 - So, and then eventually we'll be able to put all of our stuff out, too, and I don't know. Sounds great. 00:58:46.458 --> 00:58:53.962 - Absolutely. So much going on all the time. Give them some, they want stickers. What's it going to say? 00:58:53.962 --> 00:59:01.465 - I don't know, yeah. Flip through them. So like our nice shiny stickers. I know, those are before I got 00:59:01.465 --> 00:59:08.094 - involved. The good stickers. Those are the expensive stickers, though, and that's crucial. 00:59:08.226 --> 00:59:21.976 - And even cheap stickers, anyway. It's cost money, man. Is there such thing as a cheap sticker? No, it 00:59:21.976 --> 00:59:34.782 - turns out. Thank you. Did you know, and Maria might have mentioned it if she was here tonight, 00:59:35.234 --> 00:59:44.277 - What is the vending machine that they have over it gather it is for you know about it. Yeah contraception 00:59:44.277 --> 00:59:51.102 - and free contraception and other. Sexual health. So awesome yeah has it was it. 00:59:51.842 --> 00:59:59.347 - May of last year or the May before? It was, it's only been about a year maybe, yeah. I know they had 00:59:59.347 --> 01:00:07.224 - an event at Gather sometime this year to talk about it, but one of our commissioners was a part of making 01:00:07.224 --> 01:00:14.877 - that happen. That's really cool. We should add to our, I know because we, Path for You is normally our 01:00:14.877 --> 01:00:21.342 - go to in terms of, do you know where, do you guys know where they sourced their stuff? 01:00:21.698 --> 01:00:29.989 - I wonder, is it passed for you? It might, yeah. I mean, HAP, and then who is the representative that 01:00:29.989 --> 01:00:38.362 - was there? I would have to look at that. I would have to look through my email. Another organization. 01:00:38.362 --> 01:00:46.653 - Totally blanking. We should add it to our... Like a refugee organization, but I think that's totally 01:00:46.653 --> 01:00:49.854 - wrong. Oh, like Exodus, maybe? Exodus. 01:00:50.402 --> 01:01:00.865 - I'll figure it out. Maybe. We give out similar stuff. We have male and female condoms, latex and latex-free 01:01:00.865 --> 01:01:10.941 - lube. We have some Plan B, limited amount, but we have some Plan B, things like this. Yeah, so whatever 01:01:10.941 --> 01:01:18.014 - people need sexual health-wise, we try to cover. You know, it's too bad. 01:01:18.754 --> 01:01:24.664 - still makes me mad that the clinic closed here with the with the house because that would have been 01:01:24.664 --> 01:01:30.811 - a great partnership yeah I think they closed so somewhere around the time that we opened and I was like 01:01:30.811 --> 01:01:36.839 - there was still information online about them and so I like showed up at the door and I was like wait 01:01:36.839 --> 01:01:43.163 - this is locked yeah but if there was ever anything that you know for expansion purposes bringing something 01:01:43.163 --> 01:01:44.286 - like that back and 01:01:49.154 --> 01:01:57.801 - me today. Well, we won't make you stay any longer. I mean, we don't have much. So much. It was so nice 01:01:57.801 --> 01:02:06.196 - to meet you all. Thank you so much for listening and for letting us speak. Thank you for your work. 01:02:06.196 --> 01:02:14.843 - Of course. Thank you for yours. Yes. What's the report show, the graduate student report that they put 01:02:14.843 --> 01:02:17.278 - together? What does it show? 01:02:17.538 --> 01:02:26.067 - quite a bit behind. Is it like about access or the data that exists for women's health? I'm trying to 01:02:26.067 --> 01:02:34.595 - think of... It's always access. Distrust in local government. You can take that. If you want, take it 01:02:34.595 --> 01:02:43.124 - and just drop it off to me some other time if you read it. I can bring it back to you tomorrow. Yeah, 01:02:43.124 --> 01:02:45.214 - whenever. Yeah, take it. 01:02:45.378 --> 01:02:56.514 - Thank you. Yeah, rising utility and energy costs. So real. OK, yeah, for sure. Thank you. Thank you 01:02:56.514 --> 01:03:07.761 - guys. OK, have a good one. Oh, trash. What was that? I got food with something. Thank you. Bye. Bye. 01:03:07.761 --> 01:03:13.886 - One of my favorite parts about working as a med school 01:03:15.650 --> 01:03:22.752 - Well, yeah, I mean, it's always makes you feel hopeful, you know, like people still out there doing 01:03:22.752 --> 01:03:29.571 - the work. And, you know, it's the way I feel about, you know, when I work with artists or like, 01:03:29.571 --> 01:03:36.815 - you know, people in different cultures that, you know, living outside the norm and still fighting the 01:03:36.815 --> 01:03:39.230 - good fight makes me feel amazing. 01:03:45.026 --> 01:03:54.803 - I will talk more about, I just, yeah, so I did present today on the project and how we're working towards 01:03:54.803 --> 01:04:04.949 - phase two. I gave the commissioners a bound copy of the report and the phase two data collection information. 01:04:04.949 --> 01:04:14.910 - I did in my head think, oh, I wanted to go down to pride. I know a couple, I figured they would be helpful. 01:04:15.330 --> 01:04:23.706 - letting me be there to try to collect data. And then I know another business, I know a business that's 01:04:23.706 --> 01:04:32.000 - going to be down there that would probably be Caveat mDoor, which would probably let me put a QR code 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:40.132 - and information at their table, even though I haven't. Just to try to keep going on collecting more 01:04:40.132 --> 01:04:43.710 - data. I just became an owner of the survey. 01:04:44.386 --> 01:04:52.536 - And the survey currently is open until October 1st. So we have quite a bit of time to still collect 01:04:52.536 --> 01:05:00.768 - more information. And even in the report, one of the suggestions was just, you know, ongoing because 01:05:00.768 --> 01:05:09.651 - you want ongoing collection. It's never going to, you know, but you do need to put end dates on it sometimes 01:05:09.651 --> 01:05:12.830 - so people actually feel like they need 01:05:13.282 --> 01:05:22.146 - to do it. So, um, that's all I have about what I've done. Do you have any parts of the data or policy? 01:05:22.146 --> 01:05:30.752 - Because we haven't met yet. No, I just all I've all I'm trying to do is find a time for us to meet. 01:05:30.752 --> 01:05:39.443 - So I sent I sent a suggestion for meeting time and we'll see if that works for the two committees to 01:05:39.443 --> 01:05:43.230 - meet together. And hopefully that'll get us 01:05:43.938 --> 01:05:50.479 - going. Any updates for like outreach that you want to share? We're going out on Sunday. And Julie was 01:05:50.479 --> 01:05:57.277 - kind enough to bring us some donations. So Jennifer and I are going to meet up. I'll check in with Tiana. 01:05:57.277 --> 01:06:03.691 - We'll do it for longer. So we'll have like a bigger report. I still owe everybody like that plan of 01:06:03.691 --> 01:06:10.168 - who we're going to hit. But I figured we might as well just hit Seminary Park again. But we're going 01:06:10.168 --> 01:06:13.054 - to bring surveys with us too. Awesome. Yeah. 01:06:15.330 --> 01:06:24.270 - We owe you a comprehensive update. I was just going to say there is a, I don't remember, but there is 01:06:24.270 --> 01:06:33.385 - another, I think Kathleen was talking about it when she was here or we talked about it later, but there 01:06:33.385 --> 01:06:42.149 - is somebody out there in the community already doing this kind of, yeah. So it would be a good idea 01:06:42.149 --> 01:06:43.902 - to, you know, yeah. 01:06:44.034 --> 01:06:50.466 - work with them and no reason to recreate wheels and, you know, just to be able to continue to provide 01:06:50.466 --> 01:06:56.898 - support. I don't recall Kathleen mentioning that when she was here. I don't think she did. I think it 01:06:56.898 --> 01:07:03.457 - was after. I'll text her. I'll call her and text her. I'm sure we're not doing double work. I'm willing 01:07:03.457 --> 01:07:09.889 - to do double work, but collaboration is always great. I don't even remember what's on the agenda, but 01:07:09.889 --> 01:07:12.222 - no new business, any public comment. 01:07:13.282 --> 01:07:25.396 - Jodi was on there, she's still there. Anything else? I have nothing else and we're actually, there's 01:07:25.396 --> 01:07:37.871 - only three of us now, so we're not a quorum anymore anyway. I do know, I feel like I announced, we know 01:07:37.871 --> 01:07:39.550 - this already, 01:07:39.810 --> 01:07:48.347 - The next meeting September is not here. It is going to be in showers. I think that was being announced 01:07:48.347 --> 01:07:56.636 - like awhile ago, but I will verify that later and make sure that you know everyone is. Yeah. But it 01:07:56.636 --> 01:08:04.925 - will be on the same third Thursday at 538, but it won't be in this. They have budget hearings going 01:08:04.925 --> 01:08:06.334 - on at that time. 01:08:09.570 --> 01:08:21.296 - Anything else? I gotta go to the comedy attic. Maria Bamford. Anyway, it is 642, 643. I'm gonna call 01:08:21.296 --> 01:08:28.958 - this meeting adjourned if that is okay. And thank you for coming.