WEBVTT 00:00:00.642 --> 00:00:08.211 - 20th, it is 534. And we'll go ahead and get started. The commission shall serve in an advisory role 00:00:08.211 --> 00:00:15.781 - to assist residents, businesses, and the government of Monroe County in addressing issues of gender 00:00:15.781 --> 00:00:23.426 - equity. The mission is to advance the status of women in marginalized genders in all areas of county 00:00:23.426 --> 00:00:29.406 - life. The first order of business is to send out the minutes. Did we have any? 00:00:31.746 --> 00:00:43.583 - of Commissioner Medina. I fixed that. And I still owe us May, though. For the one that we got. This 00:00:43.583 --> 00:00:55.657 - is just for July. July. July. Yes. Do we have a motion to pass July's minutes? I will move to approve 00:00:55.657 --> 00:01:01.694 - July minutes. I second. All in favor say aye. Aye. 00:01:04.898 --> 00:01:13.958 - Commissioner updates, we'll start with Jennifer, do you have any general updates we won't cover later? 00:01:13.958 --> 00:01:23.281 - No, I don't think so. I do not. Commissioner Hardesty. I have a freedom school steering committee update, 00:01:23.281 --> 00:01:30.494 - which is just something that I am working on in the community. So we have a plan. 00:01:30.594 --> 00:01:36.292 - now to begin engaging with the community via some community events this fall. And we have a mission 00:01:36.292 --> 00:01:42.275 - and it's to educate students about black history and culture, deepening their understanding of the past, 00:01:42.275 --> 00:01:48.145 - its impact on the present and their role in shaping a better future. So we're very excited about this. 00:01:48.145 --> 00:01:49.854 - So we're beginning things off 00:01:49.986 --> 00:01:57.290 - Kicking things off with a meeting for any interested parents and their kids to learn about what this 00:01:57.290 --> 00:02:05.100 - program is going to be and the activities that we have planned for this fall. And that meeting is happening 00:02:05.100 --> 00:02:12.620 - at the Monroe County Public Library downtown branch on Sunday, September 13th from 3 to 4 p.m. in Combo 00:02:12.620 --> 00:02:16.670 - Room Meeting Room 1B slash C. So, yeah, get a big room. 00:02:16.802 --> 00:02:24.411 - Habitat for Humanity. We build on September 26th. If anybody would like to donate or join, you can go 00:02:24.411 --> 00:02:32.096 - to Habitat for Humanity. Join my team. My name is Jennifer Bellman. Julie, did you have anything else? 00:02:32.096 --> 00:02:40.003 - No. My only updates update is I did talk to Commissioner Yarrow earlier this week and they will be coming 00:02:40.003 --> 00:02:46.270 - back starting next week or next month. So that's good. I did have a proxy for them. 00:02:46.498 --> 00:02:55.736 - But I don't know what happened to them. So I did want to announce that I know Saturday's Pride. I guess 00:02:55.736 --> 00:03:04.708 - we should say that. But additionally, because everybody I think knows that I am on the Monroe County 00:03:04.708 --> 00:03:07.550 - Fire Protection District Board. 00:03:07.650 --> 00:03:16.653 - as well and we have our community cookout which they scheduled for this Saturday August 22nd at 2026 00:03:16.653 --> 00:03:25.656 - from 11 to 3. It is out at Monroe Fire Station 21 which is at 9094 South Strainridge Road. It's open 00:03:25.656 --> 00:03:33.054 - to everybody and they usually have a lot of fun and they are doing the food pantry 00:03:33.282 --> 00:03:43.760 - donation collection for Smithville Food Pantry and Grace Center Food Pantry. Usually are a lot of fun, 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:54.339 - especially very family oriented and highly recommend if you ever have a chance to go meet those people. 00:03:54.339 --> 00:03:59.934 - The firefighters and staff and board were all amazing. 00:04:03.618 --> 00:04:09.067 - we should make a little bit more about Bloomington Pride Fest, because it's happening all afternoon 00:04:09.067 --> 00:04:14.680 - and into the evening on Saturday. I don't know what I was like, I don't even know what time it starts. 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:20.402 - What time does it start? I think it's like one-ish, two-ish. Two? Yeah. Two to what? Two to eight. Yeah. 00:04:20.402 --> 00:04:26.070 - Just go to Kirkwood. Yeah, Kirkwood. Yeah, they're closing the street, right? And I think the weather's 00:04:26.070 --> 00:04:28.958 - going to be nice, hopefully. It's going to be great. 00:04:38.626 --> 00:04:46.529 - come up in old business. We're gonna, let's, I know we didn't introduce ourselves when we started. Why 00:04:46.529 --> 00:04:54.586 - don't you just, so this is, where they're gonna, yes, just introduce yourselves and then we'll introduce 00:04:54.586 --> 00:05:02.335 - ourselves. Okay, my name is Suki. I'm a third year medical student here at the IU School of Medicine 00:05:02.335 --> 00:05:03.870 - Bloomington campus. 00:05:04.898 --> 00:05:12.880 - My name is Sage. I'm a second year medical student here at the IU Bloomington Medical School campus. 00:05:12.880 --> 00:05:21.020 - My name is Julie Hardesty. I'm a member of the Women's Commission, but I'm also a librarian at Indiana 00:05:21.020 --> 00:05:29.396 - University. My name is Jennifer Belton, Women's Commission. I work at the VA, the Veterans Administration 00:05:29.396 --> 00:05:33.822 - here in Bloomington. Molly with the Women's Commission. 00:05:37.122 --> 00:05:43.982 - You know who I am. I'm Susan slash Gus. I'm the chair. And most of us have been on the commission for 00:05:43.982 --> 00:05:50.841 - many, many years, it feels like. And a lot of time we have in the past, we, like I asked you, I mean, 00:05:50.841 --> 00:05:57.634 - this has been like a year in the making. And I feel like, you know, had people come and present. And 00:05:57.634 --> 00:06:04.830 - like I've said, it's like, it always seems unimpressive because no one ever comes or watches, but if like, 00:06:05.666 --> 00:06:12.841 - we do get like a lot of people view us on because they're all recorded on cats and they go up online. 00:06:12.841 --> 00:06:19.945 - So it's always nice, you know, to one of our big things is to try to amplify voices of programs that 00:06:19.945 --> 00:06:27.119 - are going on in the community, just so to get the more of the word out. And obviously the clinic fits 00:06:27.119 --> 00:06:32.254 - the bill perfectly. And it is such a great program and project that, uh, 00:06:32.450 --> 00:06:42.475 - That's why I was hoping you guys could come share with us and that actually I'm gonna have an ask as 00:06:42.475 --> 00:06:52.798 - well that I realized. So they're gonna, TSD, sorry. So can you promote Sage Sweeney? Cause she's gonna, 00:06:52.798 --> 00:06:57.662 - they're gonna present, do a presentation for us. 00:07:27.810 --> 00:07:35.445 - Thank you. All right. Ready? I'm ready. Awesome. So I already introduced myself. My name is Sage. I 00:07:35.445 --> 00:07:43.462 - am second year medical student and one of the medical student chairs for IUSM's gender diverse and queer 00:07:43.462 --> 00:07:51.326 - clinic. And Suki is our third year chair. So we're going to share a little bit about our clinic today. 00:07:54.242 --> 00:08:01.671 - First, some general information about what the Gender Diverse and Queer Clinic is, or the GDQC. So we 00:08:01.671 --> 00:08:09.100 - are a IU Health student-run clinic that provides free healthcare services to those that are uninsured 00:08:09.100 --> 00:08:16.456 - or underinsured, both in Bloomington and in Indiana at large. We focus on safe and affirming primary 00:08:16.456 --> 00:08:19.806 - care for LGBTQ patients. Some of our services 00:08:20.066 --> 00:08:27.166 - include preventative care and health screenings, labs including cervical cancer screening, blood panels, 00:08:27.166 --> 00:08:33.996 - urine panels, mental and sexual health care resources, medication management, gender affirming care, 00:08:33.996 --> 00:08:40.758 - and we'll get into some of our other offerings as well a little bit later. But first I want to talk 00:08:40.758 --> 00:08:45.086 - about why we exist. So some health and equity challenges facing 00:08:45.410 --> 00:08:52.088 - our LGBTQ population nationwide. So LGBTQ individuals face a lot of barriers to care. They're two times 00:08:52.088 --> 00:08:58.765 - as likely to rely on Medicaid as primary insurance compared to non-LGBTQ adults and more likely to cite 00:08:58.765 --> 00:09:05.186 - cost as a reason for delaying healthcare. They face discrimination or fear of discrimination, which 00:09:05.186 --> 00:09:11.606 - can discourage individuals from pursuing healthcare. And we have a historic lack of LGBTQ competent 00:09:11.606 --> 00:09:13.982 - healthcare providers in our country. 00:09:15.458 --> 00:09:21.997 - So a little bit on health care disparities. In terms of physical health, LGBTQ adults face 00:09:21.997 --> 00:09:29.541 - greater cardiovascular disease risk, greater incidence of eating disorders and disordered eating habits, 00:09:29.541 --> 00:09:36.798 - and higher risk of sleep health issues, to name a few. In addition to sexual health disparities with 00:09:37.186 --> 00:09:44.080 - homosexual men, men who have sex with men, being at increased risk for certain STIs. Interestingly, 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:50.974 - receptive anal partners are at greater risk than contracting HIV in comparison to receptive vaginal 00:09:50.974 --> 00:09:57.937 - partners, and this is due to thinner lining of the anal canal. So just anatomically, how we're built 00:09:57.937 --> 00:10:01.246 - can put us at higher risk for certain diseases. 00:10:01.410 --> 00:10:08.476 - And then in terms of mental health disparities, LGBTQ individuals are more likely to experience mental 00:10:08.476 --> 00:10:15.336 - health conditions, anxiety, depression, suicide, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse compared to 00:10:15.336 --> 00:10:22.196 - cisgender heterosexual peers. 41% of LGBTQ youth report seriously considering suicide in comparison 00:10:22.196 --> 00:10:24.254 - to 13% of their cishet peers. 00:10:24.450 --> 00:10:30.537 - And a lot of these health disparities are often attributed to the minority stress model. So LGBTQ individuals 00:10:30.537 --> 00:10:36.347 - experience unique stressors related to discrimination and victimization, such as bullying and harassment 00:10:36.347 --> 00:10:39.390 - that can compound some of these disparities over time. 00:10:40.674 --> 00:10:48.109 - So in terms of Bloomington in specific, there were a few founding research publications put out that 00:10:48.109 --> 00:10:55.471 - demonstrated a lack of LGBTQ competent care in southern Indiana in particular. So less than half of 00:10:55.471 --> 00:11:03.422 - transgender and gender non-binary survey respondents reported having a LGBTQ welcoming healthcare provider. 00:11:03.618 --> 00:11:09.677 - Those who had an LGBTQ welcoming health care provider and a competent provider were more likely to report 00:11:09.677 --> 00:11:15.449 - their health as excellent or good and to report quality of health as excellent or very good compared 00:11:15.449 --> 00:11:21.279 - to individuals without an LGBTQ welcoming provider. Some common themes arose in some of these surveys 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:26.366 - regarding health care experiences, including discrimination and validation and distrust. 00:11:27.362 --> 00:11:32.935 - And then this is a clip of the paper that I'm describing, which was published by IU medical students 00:11:32.935 --> 00:11:38.563 - regarding the research in this area. So the survey included 85 participants and was created by one of 00:11:38.563 --> 00:11:44.081 - the founding members of the GDQC. Her name is Keely Newsome. She's a physician now. And this survey 00:11:44.081 --> 00:11:50.040 - demonstrated the need for gender inclusive LGBTQ competent care in order to bridge the healthcare disparity 00:11:50.040 --> 00:11:55.006 - gaps that we're seeing in Southern and Central Indiana. So Suki is gonna share some more. 00:11:57.378 --> 00:12:06.712 - So as Sage said, one of our founding clinic members conducted a survey on not only the rate or really 00:12:06.712 --> 00:12:15.863 - the self-described health of LGBTQ folks in southern Indiana, but they also conducted a study on IU 00:12:15.863 --> 00:12:18.334 - medical students perceived 00:12:19.362 --> 00:12:25.689 - competency in this area. So they did a study on the frequency of IU medical students asking about their 00:12:25.689 --> 00:12:31.895 - partners, about their patients, sexual orientation and gender identity during the course of a patient 00:12:31.895 --> 00:12:38.405 - interview or a patient interaction. They found that the number of students asking about sexual orientation 00:12:38.405 --> 00:12:42.846 - and gender identity significantly decreased with every year of training. 00:12:43.042 --> 00:12:49.492 - Reasons that these students cited included believing that this is irrelevant to the encounter, limiting 00:12:49.492 --> 00:12:55.942 - inquiries to patients with sexual health complaints only, and negative influence from their attendings. 00:12:55.942 --> 00:13:02.206 - However, it's been pretty demonstrated that discussing the sexual orientation and gender identity of 00:13:02.206 --> 00:13:08.532 - patients can allow for more patient-centered care, even in contexts where it may not seem necessarily 00:13:08.532 --> 00:13:10.206 - relevant. This can improve 00:13:10.658 --> 00:13:30.334 - patient physician trust and sexual and gender minority health as a whole. Okay. Yeah. 00:13:30.978 --> 00:13:37.906 - That was, those were studies that were conducted by medical students. We sort of cite those as our founding 00:13:37.906 --> 00:13:44.513 - studies and kind of like as a reason for existing. There's other studies that exist that show that the 00:13:44.513 --> 00:13:51.056 - self-assessed LGBTQ care competency of healthcare professionals tend to, they tend to rate themselves 00:13:51.056 --> 00:13:57.342 - lower in this field rather than in a field, rather than in discussing cisgender patient concerns. 00:13:58.434 --> 00:14:04.858 - The knowledge gap permeates all facets of health care. So not only is it about sexual health as we as 00:14:04.858 --> 00:14:11.408 - we've discussed that the trust relationship that can come along with having these discussions with your 00:14:11.408 --> 00:14:18.084 - provider can really improve health care and improve the patient relationship in In all like in all facets 00:14:18.084 --> 00:14:20.414 - of the health of health care and all 00:14:20.802 --> 00:14:27.745 - aspects of the patient relationship. So the point of the GDQC is not only to provide gender affirming 00:14:27.745 --> 00:14:34.689 - care, but it is to cultivate skills in future physicians and to cultivate affirming skills as well as 00:14:34.689 --> 00:14:39.454 - patient relationship skills and communication skills in our students. 00:14:43.394 --> 00:14:48.971 - Research has consistently shown that additional education about sexual orientation and gender identity 00:14:48.971 --> 00:14:54.386 - is needed at all levels of medical training, not just in the medical school curriculum, but beyond. 00:14:54.386 --> 00:15:00.125 - And our findings show that the hidden curriculum of, well, hidden curriculum, quote unquote, about health 00:15:00.125 --> 00:15:05.540 - care for minority populations can be really powerful and can really improve students' understanding 00:15:05.540 --> 00:15:11.063 - of their patients and really improve that patient-physician relationship. We hope to model acceptance 00:15:11.063 --> 00:15:12.958 - of and respect for LGBTQ patients. 00:15:13.634 --> 00:15:19.826 - through our clinic. And we believe that this could go a long way for countering bias and distrust in 00:15:19.826 --> 00:15:26.079 - health care and ultimately help address health care disparities in the LGBTQ community in Indiana. So 00:15:26.079 --> 00:15:32.394 - a little bit of basic info about our clinic. We meet once a month, second Sunday of every month at the 00:15:32.394 --> 00:15:34.846 - IU Health Clinic on South Roger Street. 00:15:35.362 --> 00:15:41.452 - So when we say underinsured, we mean folks whose insurance is not accepted by IU Health because we are 00:15:41.452 --> 00:15:47.600 - related to IU Health. We cannot accept patients who have insurance that would be accepted by IU Health. 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:53.986 - We tend to make exceptions for urgent cases or for folks that have been consistently seeing us but recently 00:15:53.986 --> 00:16:00.016 - obtained insurance but still have an appointment on the books. These are kind of in the weeds, but we 00:16:00.016 --> 00:16:01.790 - really do try to be flexible. 00:16:02.402 --> 00:16:08.067 - For those who are insured and get in contact with us, we have three physicians that we can sort of vouch 00:16:08.067 --> 00:16:12.222 - for in their gender affirming care competency. So Dr. Cassandra Disman-Keshe 00:16:12.322 --> 00:16:18.003 - Dishman Kessler is the primary physician that works with us. She was the physician that helped us found 00:16:18.003 --> 00:16:23.520 - the clinic. And we work out of her clinic. And we really could not do this without her. But her, Dr. 00:16:23.520 --> 00:16:29.091 - Rebecca Cohen and Dr. Laura Knudsen are three physicians that work with us in the clinic. And they're 00:16:29.091 --> 00:16:34.554 - also physicians that we refer patients to if they are insured, because we know that we can count on 00:16:34.554 --> 00:16:40.071 - them to provide Compton LGBTQ care. In the clinic, medical students do the majority of the work. The 00:16:40.071 --> 00:16:41.054 - patient comes in. 00:16:41.250 --> 00:16:47.613 - We take the vitals, we discuss whatever might be bringing them in, and then we present the issues to 00:16:47.613 --> 00:16:54.039 - the staffing physician. And then the student and physician will go back in together. So every patient 00:16:54.039 --> 00:17:00.590 - will see a physician, of course, but it is the medical students that do the upfront patient interaction 00:17:00.590 --> 00:17:06.890 - first. So we do everything a primary kidney can do, prescriptions, screenings, long-term medication 00:17:06.890 --> 00:17:07.646 - management. 00:17:07.746 --> 00:17:15.021 - a new development for us that has been really huge and exciting is that we now can do on-site lab draws. 00:17:15.021 --> 00:17:21.534 - So we can do blood draws, we can do urine samples, we can do swabs for STI screens. So we can 00:17:21.890 --> 00:17:27.657 - check on hormone therapy levels, general health maintenance, like cholesterol, you know, lipids, 00:17:27.657 --> 00:17:33.662 - STI testing, and pap smears. So we can do a lot, and it is really, really exciting that we can offer 00:17:33.662 --> 00:17:39.727 - a more whole and kind of like holistic health care model. Then for things that we can't do, referrals 00:17:39.727 --> 00:17:45.851 - to specialists, we have connections to gender-affirming care in Indianapolis for surgery and such that 00:17:45.851 --> 00:17:51.856 - we can't provide here. We are trying to build our list of mental health counselors that we also have 00:17:51.856 --> 00:17:59.233 - that we also know are LGBTQ affirming and safe to send our patients to. And then we also provide education 00:17:59.233 --> 00:18:06.404 - on safe sex practices, trans rights, and community resources. We give out a lot of stuff, a lot of safe 00:18:06.404 --> 00:18:12.126 - sex supplies, naloxone, masks, things like this. So we have really tried to become 00:18:12.226 --> 00:18:18.188 - integrated into our community. It's really important to us that we are like integrated in Bloomington 00:18:18.188 --> 00:18:24.091 - and that we know what already exists here so that we're not providing something that's redundant and 00:18:24.091 --> 00:18:29.936 - that we can point people towards resources that we can't provide. So we have met with and spoken to 00:18:29.936 --> 00:18:34.846 - all of these different organizations here and we really feel that it's important to 00:18:34.978 --> 00:18:40.989 - educate our patients on what there is out there. So HIV testing and PrEP, there's positive link, 00:18:40.989 --> 00:18:47.434 - Path for You, provides birth control all over Indiana. We have connections with the Hoosier Health Food 00:18:47.434 --> 00:18:54.003 - Bank, Indiana Legal Services, as well as the Maurer Law School, County Health Department. We also partner 00:18:54.003 --> 00:19:00.510 - with the Indiana Rural Health Association, and they are able to assist people with insurance navigation, 00:19:00.642 --> 00:19:06.494 - We've been in contact with the Mobility Aided Lending Library. Overall, we just want to show that we 00:19:06.494 --> 00:19:12.288 - really believe in a holistic health care model where health is not just about your physical health, 00:19:12.288 --> 00:19:18.081 - but also your food security, housing security, mental health, all of these things that kind of come 00:19:18.081 --> 00:19:24.107 - together that are necessary for someone to live through health and wellness. So we really tried to make 00:19:24.107 --> 00:19:25.150 - sure that we were 00:19:25.666 --> 00:19:31.100 - aware of the community resources that we have and that we are giving out information so that people 00:19:31.100 --> 00:19:36.697 - can utilize everything that's available to them. In terms of funding, we get a majority of our funding 00:19:36.697 --> 00:19:42.511 - through the IU Foundation Women's Philanthropy and Queer Philanthropy Circle. We actually just got another 00:19:42.511 --> 00:19:48.380 - grant about a month ago for about $14,000 from them, which we are really, really excited about and grateful 00:19:48.380 --> 00:19:54.085 - for because it allows us to expand our lab practices and expand the amount of supplies that we can stock 00:19:54.085 --> 00:19:54.846 - and give out. 00:19:55.074 --> 00:20:03.472 - We also started focusing on raising community donations in the last year or so, year and a half. I think 00:20:03.472 --> 00:20:11.710 - in 2020, I would say the second half of 2025 and the first half of 2026, we raised about $5,000, which 00:20:11.710 --> 00:20:13.630 - was really huge for us. 00:20:13.730 --> 00:20:19.804 - This is primarily from local donors. We have a drag show fundraiser at the back door at the end of every 00:20:19.804 --> 00:20:25.589 - sort of school semester So every May and December we've had two so far and we're going on our third 00:20:25.589 --> 00:20:31.663 - Which is really huge for us. Shout out Keller for organizing so this is a really fun way to again engage 00:20:31.663 --> 00:20:37.680 - with the community raise some money and Spread some awareness about our clinic. So we're really excited 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:43.696 - about the way that things are going We're really expanding our services and we're expanding our funding 00:20:43.696 --> 00:20:50.968 - sources as well. So future goals, something that we're currently working on is partnering with the IU 00:20:50.968 --> 00:20:58.312 - pharmacies to get discounted prescription costs and cover medication costs for our patients. So we can 00:20:58.312 --> 00:21:05.513 - work out a deal with these pharmacies and pay a discounted cost on behalf of our patients if they're 00:21:05.513 --> 00:21:08.222 - not able to afford their medications. 00:21:08.514 --> 00:21:14.186 - Some kind of long-term goals as well is providing its print transportation assistance to patients. We've 00:21:14.186 --> 00:21:19.805 - actually had patients come from South Bend to come to our clinic and several patients coming from South 00:21:19.805 --> 00:21:25.369 - Bend. And so we're trying to figure out how to fund gas cards or Uber vouchers for people so that they 00:21:25.369 --> 00:21:30.987 - can make it so that that's not a barrier for them. Of course, we're always looking to increase funding. 00:21:30.987 --> 00:21:36.390 - We're hoping to increase clinic days. Our capacity is not huge. We're able to see about five or six 00:21:36.390 --> 00:21:37.470 - new patient a month 00:21:37.570 --> 00:21:44.347 - patients a month and five or six follow-up patients a month. And so for the last few months, we've been 00:21:44.347 --> 00:21:50.994 - fully booked and we're pretty much booked for September and pretty close to being booked for October. 00:21:50.994 --> 00:21:57.706 - So we're trying to increase our capacity however we can because we know that with the cuts to Medicaid 00:21:57.706 --> 00:22:04.222 - that are happening that we may, we are seeing an increase in demand and we're seeing an increase in 00:22:04.962 --> 00:22:11.916 - patient increase. So we really want to be a consistent source of quality health care. A little plug 00:22:11.916 --> 00:22:18.870 - for our Drag Sail fundraiser. December 11th at the back door. It's sponsored by Stonewall Sports in 00:22:18.870 --> 00:22:25.684 - Indianapolis, as well as some local business sponsors that we have every year. So we do a raffle. 00:22:25.684 --> 00:22:29.022 - We charge, I think, $10 for admission, and it's 00:22:29.154 --> 00:22:37.123 - Really huge for community engagement. It's a really fun event. We have a ton of fun, of course every 00:22:37.123 --> 00:22:45.171 - time so Spread the word Yeah Oh, they're so good. Oh, they're so good Yeah, so we get like a bunch of 00:22:45.171 --> 00:22:53.534 - local drag queens to come in and do shows and then we also host our own little raffle we crocheted little 00:22:54.050 --> 00:23:00.852 - We have a lot of fun events. We have boobies and penises, and they give them little key chains, and 00:23:00.852 --> 00:23:07.722 - those were really fun. But we also have family friendly. Well, it's not true. It's at a bar. So it's 00:23:07.722 --> 00:23:14.661 - not family friendly. I won't say that. But it's a really fun event. And we really like to engage with 00:23:14.661 --> 00:23:18.878 - our community. And yeah, we're just hoping to keep expanding. 00:23:19.458 --> 00:23:26.220 - Even though that we are focused on LGBTQ health care, because that is a huge disparity in our country 00:23:26.220 --> 00:23:33.447 - right now, we see anybody. We see any patient, any problem, as long as they meet our insurance requirements. 00:23:33.447 --> 00:23:40.475 - We're absolutely very happy to provide primary care to any CISHEP patient in our community or in Indiana, 00:23:40.475 --> 00:23:46.110 - because we just believe that primary health care is a right for everyone and anyone. 00:23:46.658 --> 00:23:54.194 - You certainly don't have to be LGBTQ to come and we'd be very happy to help you out no matter what. 00:23:54.194 --> 00:24:02.181 - So, yeah. I would say that 75% of our patient population is LGBTQ, but there is a solid quarter of people 00:24:02.181 --> 00:24:04.894 - that are just seeking primary care. 00:24:04.994 --> 00:24:10.764 - and come into clinic who are not a part of the community. Yeah, we're very happy to run lipid panels 00:24:10.764 --> 00:24:16.648 - or check your cholesterol or your blood pressure or help you with your diabetes medication or whatever 00:24:16.648 --> 00:24:22.533 - it may be. So yeah, we just want to emphasize that point as well. I think that's pretty much all we've 00:24:22.533 --> 00:24:28.303 - got. Thank you. Yeah, please, any questions? Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. And I know you 00:24:28.303 --> 00:24:32.702 - probably know the answers already. And I say that because Jennifer and I met 00:24:33.026 --> 00:24:39.872 - while working at Planned Parenthood many years ago. But I'm trying, I mean, like, so what, and I was 00:24:39.872 --> 00:24:46.922 - trying to figure out the difference between, you know, the services the clinic offers versus, you know, 00:24:46.922 --> 00:24:54.175 - Planned Parenthood. But you're like saying it's primary care, so it's more than just services that Planned 00:24:54.175 --> 00:25:01.225 - Parenthood or even the health department offer, right? And then what about, I don't know what HealthNut 00:25:01.225 --> 00:25:02.174 - does anymore. 00:25:03.042 --> 00:25:08.833 - They do it all. They have psych services, dental. They do it all. They have a pharmacy there also. Yeah, 00:25:08.833 --> 00:25:14.569 - we've sent a few patients. We've given patients Health Net's information because we don't have an OBGYN 00:25:14.569 --> 00:25:20.029 - on site and things like that. So Health Net's able to provide more specialty services than we are, 00:25:20.029 --> 00:25:25.600 - for sure. Would you say that are they LGBTQ plus friends? Like, I would assume, but I mean, actually 00:25:25.600 --> 00:25:30.398 - I don't want to assume. I would say so. Yeah, we've talked to them and they are. Yeah. 00:25:30.594 --> 00:25:37.878 - complimentary in a way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. We provide similar services, definitely. And 00:25:37.878 --> 00:25:44.951 - we met with them in the beginning to discuss how we could complement each other's services. I would 00:25:44.951 --> 00:25:52.023 - say that we provide maybe more specialized service. But we absolutely endorse their clinic as well. 00:25:52.023 --> 00:25:59.166 - And we just hope that we can work together to cover the population. Do people, is it a good response 00:25:59.298 --> 00:26:06.728 - to Sunday services? Because in a way, I'd be like, how many people are open on a Sunday? Does it work 00:26:06.728 --> 00:26:11.390 - for you or against you? Because I don't know. I'm just curious. 00:26:11.618 --> 00:26:16.737 - Yeah, I mean, I would say that most of the time Sunday can be convenient for people because they don't 00:26:16.737 --> 00:26:21.805 - work. But on the other hand, we do have a pretty we have a significant amount of patients who do work 00:26:21.805 --> 00:26:26.874 - on Sundays. They do work weekends. So it's not ideal, of course, to be open just one day a month. And 00:26:26.874 --> 00:26:31.894 - so we're hoping to expand that because it can be inconvenient. But because we're only open one day a 00:26:31.894 --> 00:26:36.913 - month and because now we're booked out, someone does need a more urgent visit or something like that 00:26:36.913 --> 00:26:41.584 - help that may be a better option in terms of just like, you know, accessing services quicker. 00:26:41.584 --> 00:26:52.618 - But yeah, we're hoping to be a little bit more flexible in the future So how how long I may miss this 00:26:52.618 --> 00:27:03.651 - how long has the clinic existed when did when did it start October of 24 so we are on our second year 00:27:03.651 --> 00:27:07.870 - now operational Is that in when you're 00:27:08.322 --> 00:27:15.513 - When you're looking at other places to connect up with, is that like a constant, like what services 00:27:15.513 --> 00:27:22.703 - are showing up in the community? And that's a constant conversation that's kind of around. Yeah. So 00:27:22.703 --> 00:27:30.182 - we have a lot of help from our fellow medical students. So we have a few committees set up so that it's 00:27:30.182 --> 00:27:36.222 - not just Suki and I and our co-chairs running everything. So we have a partnership. 00:27:36.354 --> 00:27:45.951 - committee and they're really the ones in charge of making those connections and maintaining them so 00:27:45.951 --> 00:27:48.446 - that we like have a yeah. 00:27:48.706 --> 00:27:54.300 - I'm just, are you all still having to go out and look for things or are other services coming to you 00:27:54.300 --> 00:28:00.283 - and being like, hey, we're here too? They're starting to come to us, which is really great. That's awesome. 00:28:00.283 --> 00:28:06.154 - Yeah, we recently, several months ago, we had SCAP come to a clinic and leave some resources and business 00:28:06.154 --> 00:28:12.025 - cards and discuss what they offer, what we offer. So it's been great to get a little bit more established 00:28:12.025 --> 00:28:17.675 - in the community over time and have people kind of know about us sometimes before we know about them, 00:28:17.675 --> 00:28:18.672 - which is amazing. 00:28:18.672 --> 00:28:25.735 - But yeah, our Partners Committee, as Sage said, is dedicated to building community partnerships. One 00:28:25.735 --> 00:28:33.287 - thing that's really cool too, one of my favorite recent examples, Stonebell contacted us and was interested 00:28:33.287 --> 00:28:40.280 - in figuring out how can we help each other. And in addition to talking about what services we could 00:28:40.280 --> 00:28:47.902 - provide for each other's populations, we have educational talks that we do for medical students, and we have 00:28:48.258 --> 00:28:54.337 - Researchers clinicians professionals in the field come chat with medical students about topics that 00:28:54.337 --> 00:29:00.415 - might be underrepresented in our curriculum. So through that connection we made with stone belt. We 00:29:00.415 --> 00:29:04.670 - actually had one of their sexuality educators come talk with us about 00:29:05.154 --> 00:29:11.490 - the topic of sexuality and intellectual and developmental disabilities and how to open those conversations 00:29:11.490 --> 00:29:17.412 - up with patients that might be interested in talking about sex but haven't been presented with that 00:29:17.412 --> 00:29:23.393 - opportunity before. And that was just one of my personal favorite connections that we've made so far 00:29:23.393 --> 00:29:29.434 - because that's not a conversation at all that we're having in school. So it was really cool. You guys 00:29:29.434 --> 00:29:33.342 - have a navigator on site if people want to sign up for insurance? 00:29:33.890 --> 00:29:40.177 - who are not currently insured? So we have them, on our like sort of intake form, we have them indicate 00:29:40.177 --> 00:29:46.402 - whether or not they would like to be connected with the Indiana Rural Health Network and then we send 00:29:46.402 --> 00:29:52.689 - our patient's phone number to the Indiana Rural Health Network and they take over from there and reach 00:29:52.689 --> 00:29:57.694 - out. So AHEC is the one who's setting them up for insurance, correct? Yeah, yeah. 00:29:58.018 --> 00:30:05.404 - Med student participation, is it picking up or is it kind of like you have a wait list for appointments? 00:30:05.404 --> 00:30:13.071 - Is there a wait list for students interested in serving and being there? Med students are busy. So sometimes 00:30:13.071 --> 00:30:17.854 - it is a little bit pulling teeth to get people. No, like people are 00:30:17.986 --> 00:30:23.005 - pretty enthusiastic. And every med student class that comes in, we have more and more people say that 00:30:23.005 --> 00:30:28.024 - like the clinic, it was a big reason that they chose Bloomington because yes, it's really cool. We're 00:30:28.024 --> 00:30:32.994 - having like the incoming first years right now. People have to apply to be part of our clinic, to be 00:30:32.994 --> 00:30:38.013 - part of the committees and stuff. And a few of them have indicated that this is a big reason why they 00:30:38.013 --> 00:30:41.950 - chose Bloomington, which just makes us really, really happy. Does IU know this? 00:30:42.594 --> 00:30:52.320 - Yes, yes, yes. Dean Hitler is pretty supportive of the clinic. And I think that having the clinic here 00:30:52.320 --> 00:31:01.857 - is a big boon for Bloomington. It gives students a really important exposure to patients and really, 00:31:01.857 --> 00:31:07.806 - really useful clinical experience, not only the fact that it's 00:31:08.130 --> 00:31:13.767 - underrepresented portion of health care, but it's just an experience. It's a chance to interact with 00:31:13.767 --> 00:31:19.460 - patients. So yeah, I think we staff our clinics pretty well. I would say we have a significant amount 00:31:19.460 --> 00:31:25.208 - of medical students from all four classes that are coming to help out. And yeah, as we expand, we need 00:31:25.208 --> 00:31:31.069 - more and more of them. So getting fully staffed can be a little difficult sometimes, but we have a bunch 00:31:31.069 --> 00:31:35.422 - of students that are interested and dedicated and really good at helping out. 00:31:35.874 --> 00:31:42.821 - One thing that was really cool, our last clinic, we had, I think there were 12 students and we had 11 00:31:42.821 --> 00:31:49.701 - patients on the books. So for every patient, there was at least one medical student in attendance at 00:31:49.701 --> 00:31:56.580 - clinic, which I thought was really cool. You said this is like giving med students experience. Is it 00:31:56.580 --> 00:32:02.846 - counting towards getting the degree? Like, I'm not quite sure how the medical degree works, 00:32:03.010 --> 00:32:08.186 - Not exactly. There's not a requirement that they're fulfilling. But as an extracurricular activity and 00:32:08.186 --> 00:32:13.412 - as a volunteer activity, I mean, we do count our volunteer hours. So this counts towards that. And it's 00:32:13.412 --> 00:32:18.739 - definitely an experience that is significant to a lot of people to talk about later when they're applying 00:32:18.739 --> 00:32:23.262 - to residency and stuff. So we do definitely think there's a material benefit to students. 00:32:23.330 --> 00:32:29.093 - And one other thing that I'll just bring up briefly is that we're hoping to start some academic research 00:32:29.093 --> 00:32:34.636 - with our patient population. So getting, you know, our names on some papers is always a big boon for 00:32:34.636 --> 00:32:40.124 - medical students as well, having some academic work. And then, of course, it's really beneficial to 00:32:40.124 --> 00:32:43.198 - the clinic to understand who is our patient demographic 00:32:43.458 --> 00:32:50.693 - Why do they come to our clinic? What barriers exist to them for health care? What reasons do they cite 00:32:50.693 --> 00:32:57.928 - as either barriers to health care or barriers to other things in their lives, such as issues with food 00:32:57.928 --> 00:33:05.163 - and housing insecurity? So getting to know the patient population a little bit better is also a really 00:33:05.163 --> 00:33:10.782 - big goal of ours, because it helps inform us how we can support them. One more. 00:33:10.946 --> 00:33:16.922 - I can ask about wondering about for you because you were talking about patients needing transportation 00:33:16.922 --> 00:33:22.840 - help and you're looking around trying to figure out ways to get that help for them. Is there is there 00:33:22.840 --> 00:33:28.933 - kind of like a grant writing committee that's part of this that's looking at trying to get grant funding 00:33:28.933 --> 00:33:35.141 - for things like that. We have our finance committee and they're in charge of one thing that I also there's 00:33:35.141 --> 00:33:37.694 - everything about this clinic is so awesome. 00:33:37.890 --> 00:33:46.303 - But all of our grants are student procured, which I think is really special. There's no professional 00:33:46.303 --> 00:33:54.633 - helping us write these grants. And so I think it's a really awesome achievement. All of our funding 00:33:54.633 --> 00:33:56.382 - is student procured. 00:33:56.578 --> 00:34:03.693 - That's one of the goals for the committee this year is trying to diversify where some of our funding 00:34:03.693 --> 00:34:11.020 - comes from. As Suki mentioned, so far a lot of it is through IU Affinity Giving, the Women's Leadership 00:34:11.020 --> 00:34:18.558 - Council, and Queer Philanthropy Circle, and then community funding from our fundraiser, and we always have 00:34:18.690 --> 00:34:25.149 - a philanthropy link on our website that people can donate to at any time, but that's a big goal of our 00:34:25.149 --> 00:34:31.608 - finance committee this year is trying to diversify some of our funding sources. It occurred to me that 00:34:31.608 --> 00:34:38.067 - the Indiana State Chapter of the National Organization for Women might be, I know in the past that now 00:34:38.067 --> 00:34:44.589 - has specifically funded transportation to go vote, so that's kind of a thing at the national level that 00:34:44.589 --> 00:34:48.414 - they've been interested in, transportation needs for voting. 00:34:48.514 --> 00:34:54.404 - transportation needs for health care, I could see that. I was thinking the same thing, funny enough. 00:34:54.404 --> 00:35:00.410 - There's no county chapter here anymore. We did have a county chapter for now, but the state still has, 00:35:00.410 --> 00:35:06.417 - Indiana State. What was it called again? National Organization for Women, and there's an Indiana State 00:35:06.417 --> 00:35:12.307 - chapter. Thank you for sharing, because that definitely sounds like our values might align. It would 00:35:12.307 --> 00:35:18.430 - be good to get in touch. They would want to know about you. Thank you. That would be great. It was huge. 00:35:18.562 --> 00:35:26.457 - I mean, we're always looking for connections because, like, you know, some of us come from out of state. 00:35:26.457 --> 00:35:34.127 - We're all pretty busy with our schoolwork, obviously. So we're always looking for, like, a connection 00:35:34.127 --> 00:35:41.797 - or a recommendation for funding or community resource or whatever. So we're super open to hearing any 00:35:41.797 --> 00:35:48.414 - suggestions that anyone has. So tell us how, like, where can we find information about? 00:35:48.930 --> 00:35:57.584 - You have a website, social media. Yeah. We have our Instagram, gdqc underscore btown. Is that right? 00:35:57.584 --> 00:36:06.495 - Btown now? Our website is gdqcbloomington.squarespace.com. So yeah, I mean, we also have Facebook under 00:36:06.495 --> 00:36:14.206 - the same name. You can get in touch with us through any of those avenues, our appointment 00:36:14.466 --> 00:36:21.672 - booking link is on our website as well as other contact information. If anyone wants to get in touch, 00:36:21.672 --> 00:36:28.737 - we're always available. We will also be tabling at Bloomington Pride. If anyone wants to come chat, 00:36:28.737 --> 00:36:35.943 - we're always at Bloomington Pride, Indie Pride, Spencer Pride. We're happy to talk if anyone wants to 00:36:35.943 --> 00:36:42.654 - come chat about the clinic. We'll have lots of stickers. Thank you. Lots of business cards and 00:36:43.074 --> 00:36:50.175 - pamphlets and all of the above and a big old poster about all of our Offerings. So even if you don't 00:36:50.175 --> 00:36:57.206 - want to come talk to us, you can come read about what we do But if there's probably already they're 00:36:57.206 --> 00:37:04.448 - going I wonder how I can get involved get him I was just gonna extend I speak I'm speaking for myself, 00:37:04.448 --> 00:37:10.846 - but I'm speaking probably Even the ones who aren't here, but I would lend my time resource 00:37:11.266 --> 00:37:18.891 - Anything that I could do an outreach and come hang out with you guys with whatever you need he's a nurse, 00:37:18.891 --> 00:37:26.085 - too I mean with lots of experience lots of experience Finance meeting I want to come to the finance 00:37:26.085 --> 00:37:33.279 - meeting because I have like I mean, there's a lot of us I think that would I would certainly as you 00:37:33.279 --> 00:37:34.430 - know, I've been 00:37:34.594 --> 00:37:41.006 - And I know it's hard to figure out how to handle donors that aren't student, or not donors, but volunteers, 00:37:41.006 --> 00:37:47.181 - that aren't students that aren't affiliated with IU Health that can help, but I know they're, you know, 00:37:47.181 --> 00:37:53.177 - I mean, I certainly would, Marty, like, how can I get involved with finance because, you know, great 00:37:53.177 --> 00:37:59.352 - writing experiences, just the resources, and I know it's difficult to add that time into it, but I know 00:37:59.352 --> 00:38:02.142 - I would certainly be happy to help in any way. 00:38:02.274 --> 00:38:09.454 - I was going to say we so appreciate that and I guess two things one currently working on trying to partner 00:38:09.454 --> 00:38:16.232 - with the nursing school so that we can I mean benefit to the nursing students and to our patients as 00:38:16.232 --> 00:38:22.942 - well to see a more complete care team. And so that's something that we're currently at social work. 00:38:24.930 --> 00:38:31.725 - We have reached out to social work. Yeah, I don't think that that we haven't been able to like I remember 00:38:31.725 --> 00:38:38.328 - what it was because there's something about because I remember there was Emily's sibling and there was 00:38:38.328 --> 00:38:42.238 - something weird when we tried to connect with them regarding 00:38:45.346 --> 00:38:51.089 - I think it was because our patient population isn't students. And they're like, I don't know exactly 00:38:51.089 --> 00:38:56.832 - what it was. I remember there was some barrier that partnerships encountered. It can be kind of like 00:38:56.832 --> 00:39:02.632 - a legal thing. So at our clinic, the only people that are allowed to be at the clinic are people that 00:39:02.632 --> 00:39:08.374 - are covered by malpractice insurance through IU School of Medicine. So we have tried to partner with 00:39:08.374 --> 00:39:14.686 - social work. So it's something that we're working on still. It's sometimes hard to get in touch with everyone. 00:39:14.946 --> 00:39:22.232 - I was talking about this with actually Finley a couple days ago and just in this way of, and I just 00:39:22.232 --> 00:39:29.810 - in this sense of, you know, like I want to support, I want to like amplify, but also sometimes I'm like 00:39:29.810 --> 00:39:37.242 - in the political climates that we're in, you know, it's like, how do you like get out there, but also 00:39:37.242 --> 00:39:44.382 - kind of fly under the radar. And so, you know, I mean, is it frustrating that is. And so I guess, 00:39:44.866 --> 00:39:54.761 - part of that question for me is how committed, and I know Dr. DK is a big advocate and supporter, is 00:39:54.761 --> 00:40:04.559 - that how much support has IU Health committed to? Or is it something you worry about? We don't have 00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:14.846 - to talk about it. I can't speak too much to the internal workings of IU Health. There are sometimes some 00:40:17.282 --> 00:40:24.484 - where we are a little concerned for the future. I will say the Bloomington campus has been supportive 00:40:24.484 --> 00:40:31.616 - for the vast majority of what we're trying to do, but it's really just at a state and national level 00:40:31.616 --> 00:40:38.677 - when we start seeing things like the government trying to get involved in curriculum and funding is 00:40:38.677 --> 00:40:45.950 - just when we start to get worried because the school has certain things that they have to comply with. 00:40:46.370 --> 00:40:53.744 - Personally, I don't feel like our existence has been threatened at all and we work on one of our priorities 00:40:53.744 --> 00:41:00.708 - for that reason is independent funding so that we can make sure that we secure funding outside of the 00:41:00.708 --> 00:41:03.166 - school were something to happen to. 00:41:03.650 --> 00:41:11.146 - the amount of support that the school and IU Health is able to provide. And I also will say, we are 00:41:11.146 --> 00:41:18.941 - medical students through the School of Medicine, obviously, but the clinic is associated with IU Health 00:41:18.941 --> 00:41:26.962 - because it is a clinical service. So we sort of exist in both worlds, and that can be kind of an advantage 00:41:26.962 --> 00:41:30.110 - because we can provide a clinical service 00:41:30.338 --> 00:41:36.897 - and an educational service. And so we have a pretty good sort of like a reason to exist in both spheres 00:41:36.897 --> 00:41:43.520 - that is pretty well demonstrated. So, you know, I do feel like we have a pretty decent amount of support 00:41:43.520 --> 00:41:50.016 - from our institutions right now. And especially the most important part is really the support from the 00:41:50.016 --> 00:41:52.350 - students because that's kind of what 00:41:52.514 --> 00:42:00.738 - we need to keep going as staff and engaged folks. And so as long as the community and the students are 00:42:00.738 --> 00:42:08.723 - engaged and enthusiastic, I think we're gonna be good. I mean, we're the women's commission for the 00:42:08.723 --> 00:42:16.708 - county and we advise the county commissioners and the county council. So it occurred to me like, is 00:42:16.708 --> 00:42:19.902 - there anything that the county could do 00:42:20.098 --> 00:42:26.609 - to support. I'm contemplating things like space or storage or, you know, I don't know, sharing that 00:42:26.609 --> 00:42:33.380 - you exist as part of Monroe County information. Sharing that we exist is probably the number one thing. 00:42:33.380 --> 00:42:40.542 - We really just want to make sure that people know that we're there, especially as I said before, our name can 00:42:40.642 --> 00:42:46.768 - perhaps seem to kind of put us into a narrow area. But again, we want to emphasize that anyone that 00:42:46.768 --> 00:42:52.955 - is without health care right now, which is a growing number of people, is very, very welcome to come 00:42:52.955 --> 00:42:59.081 - to our clinic and receive services. So we are always looking to just amplify the word and make sure 00:42:59.081 --> 00:43:05.269 - that people know. That would seem like something that Monroe County would be interested in trying to 00:43:05.269 --> 00:43:08.638 - let people know about that are in need of health care. 00:43:10.850 --> 00:43:18.876 - Okay, so let me bridge the gap now, and you guys don't have to stay, but I want to talk about the data 00:43:18.876 --> 00:43:26.746 - and policies committee that we have and the reason why here's my ask. So we have two committees that 00:43:26.746 --> 00:43:34.694 - are a part of the Women's Commission. It's just the way we divide up our workflow. We have policy and 00:43:34.694 --> 00:43:40.382 - data, which we just combined recently, and then outreach, which we have. 00:43:42.594 --> 00:43:53.154 - One of the things that we just accomplished over the summer was that we worked with a graduate class 00:43:53.154 --> 00:44:03.610 - at the O'Neill School, and they did a cohort project for us, because one of the big things that I'm 00:44:03.610 --> 00:44:10.302 - a big fan of is data. And so we recognized easily that there is 00:44:10.562 --> 00:44:17.246 - no data on women and amazing, I mean, hugely marginalized gender. So we, you know, trying to figure 00:44:17.246 --> 00:44:24.398 - out who we serve through collection of data. So the project was with this cohort was, you know, collecting 00:44:24.398 --> 00:44:31.416 - a survey and collecting data for us. Well, it was, they had a 12 weeks. It was very small. We have their 00:44:31.416 --> 00:44:38.233 - report. It was pretty great. But one of the things that we're doing is it's called it's phase two. So 00:44:38.233 --> 00:44:39.102 - we have left 00:44:39.266 --> 00:44:47.582 - The right open, it's run through Qualtrics, et cetera, et cetera. We're working on data collection. 00:44:47.582 --> 00:44:56.065 - Our campaign theme is Every Voice Matters, help shape the future of women and marginalized genders in 00:44:56.065 --> 00:45:02.718 - Monroe County. Obviously, a big part of that is access to health care for that. 00:45:02.882 --> 00:45:11.881 - I was like this week, I was like, oh, well, of course, I need to work with them to get help, to have 00:45:11.881 --> 00:45:21.236 - the QR code up at the clinic or to wherever, to the survey, because this is the people that we're trying 00:45:21.236 --> 00:45:30.412 - to access. And I know, I mean, I've had a couple of the conversations with people that I would, in the 00:45:30.412 --> 00:45:31.838 - community that, 00:45:32.258 --> 00:45:39.854 - you know, are hesitant about surveys. You know, hesitant about doing, you know, I mean, it is anonymous. 00:45:39.854 --> 00:45:47.450 - It is, you know, there is no, really, I think the most specific data that I'm interested in is zip code, 00:45:47.450 --> 00:45:54.902 - where they live just because, you know, in a GIS map, I want to know where people live so you know how 00:45:54.902 --> 00:45:58.302 - far they are from services, XYZ kind of thing. 00:45:59.650 --> 00:46:06.778 - Yeah. So that was probably one of my things is, you know, I was either going to try to come down and 00:46:06.778 --> 00:46:14.048 - maybe, hopefully, if I can, during PrideFest and just bring a QR code. Please do. Like, and, you know, 00:46:14.048 --> 00:46:21.458 - just try to get, again, just do it does. I mean, this is very, you know, they go together. I mean, we'll 00:46:21.458 --> 00:46:26.046 - eventually have our report. Is this the report through the MCEC? 00:46:26.658 --> 00:46:34.063 - Monroe County Health Equity Council? No. OK, OK. Yeah, this is our own. The data doesn't exist. Yeah, 00:46:34.063 --> 00:46:41.686 - yeah. And so I just asked because I knew they also had like grad students working on something or other. 00:46:41.686 --> 00:46:49.018 - So I mean, it just was like, oh, of course. And I actually did present it today at the commissioners 00:46:49.018 --> 00:46:55.262 - meeting where I came and gave them. So we're an advisory body, so we don't get to act 00:46:55.458 --> 00:47:02.894 - necessarily on our own, but we get to amplify and be mindful of anything that's happening out there 00:47:02.894 --> 00:47:10.479 - to make sure all the voices are heard. One of the big projects that we have been focusing on for many 00:47:10.479 --> 00:47:17.915 - years is the jail, to make sure, I don't know if you are even aware of what's happening. I know you 00:47:17.915 --> 00:47:24.830 - guys are very busy at your school, but the jail has been sued multiple times by the ACLU for 00:47:25.122 --> 00:47:31.268 - you know, unlivable conditions, XYZ, and so they are working on either repairing or building or, 00:47:31.268 --> 00:47:37.795 - you know, all these things that they need to do. And so just one of the things that we've been focused 00:47:37.795 --> 00:47:44.575 - on is really just in the policy development, is this gender, you know, are women and marginalized genders, 00:47:44.575 --> 00:47:51.228 - how are they addressed currently? How are those, you know, when you build, are you considering all these 00:47:51.228 --> 00:47:54.206 - factors in this kind of thing? So, I mean, we, 00:47:54.690 --> 00:48:03.804 - produced, I'm pointing at Julie, the gender equity rubric. It's separate from that work, but it could 00:48:03.804 --> 00:48:12.739 - be related depending on what they're trying to figure out. So there's a gender equity rubric that's 00:48:12.739 --> 00:48:21.675 - mostly focused on policy development. So considering women and marginalized genders in creating new 00:48:21.675 --> 00:48:23.998 - policy, creating new law, 00:48:24.226 --> 00:48:29.599 - Is this something that you guys developed or something that exists? Oh, that's amazing Yeah, we put 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:35.026 - it together and shared it and it's it's out there. So I don't know that it's been used to this point 00:48:35.026 --> 00:48:40.668 - But yes, it's it's there. So that's really cool. I actually season I just sent you when you were talking 00:48:40.668 --> 00:48:46.095 - about data and numbers Totally agree. I send you we put together a 2026 so far report essentially on 00:48:46.095 --> 00:48:46.686 - what we've 00:48:47.106 --> 00:48:53.255 - accomplished, how many patients we've seen, how much funding we've raised, things like this. So if that 00:48:53.255 --> 00:48:59.522 - interests you, I just emailed it to you. And in terms of the academic work, we are working on now setting 00:48:59.522 --> 00:49:05.493 - up a database of our patients to know who they are, where they're coming from, all these numbers and 00:49:05.493 --> 00:49:11.583 - things so that we can also, as you said, understand where they're coming from, who they are, what they 00:49:11.583 --> 00:49:16.254 - need, and why they're here type of thing. So yeah, it sounds like our interest 00:49:17.410 --> 00:49:27.011 - are definitely similar and that our data is probably overlapping. And there is none. I mean, nothing 00:49:27.011 --> 00:49:36.898 - at this level. There's nothing, because this feels very micro. There really isn't anything at the macro 00:49:36.898 --> 00:49:46.974 - level either. And it's just important to know who is here, how we can serve them. We would love to share. 00:49:47.138 --> 00:49:55.939 - if that QR code, have it at our table. That's why I was like, oh, I'm going to go make stickers and 00:49:55.939 --> 00:50:04.564 - print out. That's an email, though, too. You can email it to them. I do a lot of printing, maybe, 00:50:04.564 --> 00:50:13.630 - for them. I'd like to get you guys hooked up with Dr. Gloria Howe at the Black Culture Center, because 00:50:13.630 --> 00:50:15.390 - I think that the LG 00:50:18.242 --> 00:50:26.832 - could help our community and knowing that you are there. Yeah, please. We would love that. Yeah, what 00:50:26.832 --> 00:50:35.422 - is your presence like within the cultural centers on campus? I mean, the Black Culture Center. At the 00:50:35.422 --> 00:50:44.180 - beginning, we made the rounds, and we put out just some materials on the campus. But the thing is, most 00:50:44.180 --> 00:50:46.622 - of the students are insured. 00:50:47.298 --> 00:50:52.522 - I'm not certain about this anymore. I think they have to be insured, too. I think we do. Oh, maybe it's 00:50:52.522 --> 00:50:57.846 - just the grad students. I think it's just grad students. OK, OK. So that might not be correct. Generally, 00:50:57.846 --> 00:51:02.919 - they have the student health clinic that a lot of them use. Yeah, the students have the student. And 00:51:02.919 --> 00:51:08.394 - many are insured by their parents. So we kind of realized. Or Medicaid. Medicaid is their primary insurance. 00:51:08.394 --> 00:51:11.358 - Some, when they come here, if they're coming from like us, 00:51:11.618 --> 00:51:19.254 - century 21 scholars, they already qualify for Medicaid. So that would be their primary insurance. Yeah. 00:51:19.254 --> 00:51:26.963 - So we kind of realized over time that the students aren't necessarily our target demographic. Regardless 00:51:26.963 --> 00:51:34.599 - of that, though, we do try to extend information whenever we can. So do you consider the Student Health 00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:40.766 - Center to be LGBTQ plus friendly? They have a specific gender affirming care center 00:51:40.930 --> 00:51:47.339 - that one of our volunteer physicians actually helped to get started. So they actually do have really 00:51:47.339 --> 00:51:53.685 - comprehensive services and provide a lot of affirming care through the Student Health Center. Yeah, 00:51:53.685 --> 00:52:00.158 - it is really cool. In the IU Affinity Grant Day that Keller, one of our co-chairs, and I presented at 00:52:00.158 --> 00:52:03.902 - this year in Indianapolis, there actually was a physician, 00:52:04.066 --> 00:52:10.980 - cannot remember his name off the top of my head, but from the Student Health Center. And he had a very 00:52:10.980 --> 00:52:17.693 - similar poster to ours about procuring funds for gender-affirming care services for students. Yeah. 00:52:17.693 --> 00:52:24.138 - Mm-hmm. I mean, and it's just crazy. I know this because I work at the med school, too. I just, 00:52:24.138 --> 00:52:31.119 - you know, because this is such, I mean, it is a great, and it has so much room to grow. But I also know 00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:32.126 - how crazy busy 00:52:32.706 --> 00:52:40.278 - Everybody is already limited by our own time. Just like such a shame. This is the biggest bummer. Yeah, 00:52:40.278 --> 00:52:48.287 - it's really frustrating. Yeah. And that's why I do think that I mean, it was a medical student conceptualized 00:52:48.287 --> 00:52:55.422 - and founded, which I think is really special. But as we're talking about ways to collaborate with 00:52:55.618 --> 00:53:02.354 - other members of our community. There are people who in theory would be able to dedicate more time than 00:53:02.354 --> 00:53:08.831 - we have. Immediately, I'm like, because I started a nonprofit myself last year, you know, I'm like, 00:53:08.831 --> 00:53:15.632 - so what needs to happen is it needs you to go out to, you know, you know, I mean, technically, if you're 00:53:15.632 --> 00:53:21.785 - like, OK, so someone out there in the community starts a nonprofit, you know, that is engaged. 00:53:21.785 --> 00:53:24.894 - So that way, some of the work comes out of you. 00:53:25.026 --> 00:53:30.880 - and it is becoming like, you know, so it comes out of just in the med school, and now it's like, 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:37.036 - can be, yeah, that way, you know, we can, you know, people could, you know, work on the finance team, 00:53:37.036 --> 00:53:43.192 - still work with the school, but there are other partners that can lighten the load. Yeah, no, I mean, 00:53:43.192 --> 00:53:49.288 - it's a really wonderful idea. To be completely honest, it's never fully occurred to me that we could 00:53:49.288 --> 00:53:53.694 - have outside partners that help us. I feel like it has been just such a, 00:53:54.178 --> 00:54:02.222 - I feel like you have your blinders on in school. We're definitely like, this is our whole world, this 00:54:02.222 --> 00:54:10.109 - little bubble right now. You're drinking from a fire hose and multiple fire hoses. I love that idea 00:54:10.109 --> 00:54:17.996 - because I've thought about it before when I'm thinking about, oh, I just wish that we had more time 00:54:17.996 --> 00:54:18.942 - to do more. 00:54:19.842 --> 00:54:25.302 - You don't even have time to think about how people can help us. I feel like we're in a really awesome 00:54:25.302 --> 00:54:30.709 - spot right now because we've expanded our patient base. Our clinics are fully booked. We're offering 00:54:30.709 --> 00:54:36.170 - our lab services. We've secured the funding that we need to continue existing over the next couple of 00:54:36.170 --> 00:54:41.630 - years. And so I feel like if there were ever a time to explore something like that, it's probably now 00:54:42.178 --> 00:54:49.736 - This isn't county, but with the city, they've got the volunteer network. So that's where they post volunteer 00:54:49.736 --> 00:54:56.877 - opportunities that are available in the community. So if that is something that you have, the capacity 00:54:56.877 --> 00:55:03.880 - to have committees that are filled with folks in the community that want to volunteer, that would be 00:55:03.880 --> 00:55:07.902 - one way to... That has been... Thank you guys for coming. 00:55:08.226 --> 00:55:14.697 - Let me know what I can do. They have my information. Dr. Gloria, I can't remember. Gloria Howe. Yes. 00:55:14.697 --> 00:55:21.296 - She's the director of the Neal Marshall. Are you reading that down also? Okay. Awesome. Oh, thank you. 00:55:21.296 --> 00:55:28.023 - Thank you. But yeah, there definitely is no shortage of interest from, we have people emailing us, DMing 00:55:28.023 --> 00:55:35.262 - us on Instagram all the time, which is truly incredible. And it is just what we're talking about where I'm like, 00:55:37.762 --> 00:55:44.768 - really heartwarming to see. It's only frustrating in the sense that we are trying to figure out how 00:55:44.768 --> 00:55:51.774 - to better create opportunities. We've had undergrads ask about volunteering, but we can't have them 00:55:51.774 --> 00:55:59.061 - in the clinic. So we're like, OK, the places where we could use help is in fundraising and in spreading 00:55:59.061 --> 00:56:06.207 - the word. So we're trying to figure out established ways. But yeah, again, because we're just morally 00:56:06.207 --> 00:56:07.678 - limited by our time, 00:56:07.810 --> 00:56:14.121 - I would say that we've really, at this point, it took probably about a year to really keep our heads 00:56:14.121 --> 00:56:20.619 - above water and figure out our processes to a point where the clinic is smoothly operating. And because 00:56:20.619 --> 00:56:26.680 - we scaled up pretty significantly within the last six months with labs and stuff, it was, again, 00:56:26.680 --> 00:56:33.116 - a significant challenge just to figure out how to operate from the day to day. And so now that we have 00:56:33.116 --> 00:56:36.990 - done that, now that we have created kind of like a foundation 00:56:37.122 --> 00:56:43.861 - logistics and stuff. Now it's maybe a time that we can expand to the community in a way that we really 00:56:43.861 --> 00:56:50.469 - hoped to. So it's really, and it's really, really heartwarming to like have people reach out and for 00:56:50.469 --> 00:56:57.078 - you guys to invite us and things like this. It's really, we've always, we want to be involved in the 00:56:57.078 --> 00:57:03.817 - community like this. It's a value that is like very deeply held. So it's really exciting to have these 00:57:03.817 --> 00:57:04.798 - conversations. 00:57:06.018 --> 00:57:14.502 - of the big things that we've been talking about here is period poverty, of course. And so it's like, 00:57:14.502 --> 00:57:22.986 - how much can you add on? And it's like, oh, well, maybe those kind of things, because health care in 00:57:22.986 --> 00:57:32.226 - general and access to everything is, I don't know, hard. How that all gets done. And when you're volunteering 00:57:32.226 --> 00:57:35.166 - your time, I understand it's hard. 00:57:35.618 --> 00:57:45.624 - busy and trying to find motivation sometimes when you're drowning in a million other projects is a lot. 00:57:45.624 --> 00:57:55.630 - Exactly. We are too. We really wanted to do this. We did. It's hard, but we're really happy to be here. 00:57:55.630 --> 00:58:02.846 - We're all volunteers to come here, and for us even, all these projects and 00:58:03.330 --> 00:58:12.546 - ideas that we have and want to do and it's hard when it's hard coordinating and being motivated even 00:58:12.546 --> 00:58:21.945 - when they are passion projects to do. But I will probably do some stuff and either print off and leave 00:58:21.945 --> 00:58:31.070 - for you guys to put down at the tent for tomorrow or is that Saturday? I don't know what day it is. 00:58:32.258 --> 00:58:39.367 - So, and then eventually we'll be able to put all of our stuff out, too, and I don't know. Sounds great. 00:58:39.367 --> 00:58:46.408 - Absolutely. There's so much going on all the time. Give them, they want stickers. What's he gonna say? 00:58:46.408 --> 00:58:53.517 - I don't know, but yeah. Flip through them. They want stickers. So like our nice shiny stickers. I know, 00:58:53.517 --> 00:59:01.310 - those are before I got involved. The good stickers. Those are the expensive stickers, though, and that's crucial. 00:59:01.570 --> 00:59:14.640 - And even cheap stickers, anyway. It's cost money, man. Is there such thing as a cheap sticker? Oh, it 00:59:14.640 --> 00:59:28.094 - turns out. Thank you. You guys, did you know? And Maria might have mentioned it if she was here tonight. 00:59:28.546 --> 00:59:36.150 - What is the vending machine that they have over at Gather? It is for, do you know about it? 00:59:36.150 --> 00:59:44.662 - Yes, contraception and free contraception and other sexual health. So awesome. Was it May of last year 00:59:44.662 --> 00:59:53.092 - or the May before? It's only been about a year maybe. I know they had an event at Gather this year to 00:59:53.092 --> 00:59:57.886 - talk about it, but one of our commissioners was a part of 00:59:58.082 --> 01:00:06.469 - that started. That's really cool. We should add to our I know because we path for you is normally our 01:00:06.469 --> 01:00:14.856 - our go to in terms of you do you know where do you know where they sourced their stuff I wonder is it 01:00:14.856 --> 01:00:22.174 - path for you it might yeah I mean half and then who is the representative that was there 01:00:23.234 --> 01:00:38.882 - I would have to look through my email. Another organization. Totally blanking. Like a refugee organization, 01:00:38.882 --> 01:00:51.198 - but I think that's totally wrong. Oh, like Exodus maybe? Exodus. I'll figure it out. 01:00:52.738 --> 01:00:59.628 - We give out similar stuff. We have male and female condoms, latex and latex-free lube. We have some 01:00:59.628 --> 01:01:06.793 - Plan B, limited amount, but we have some Plan B, things like this. Yeah, so whatever people need sexual 01:01:06.793 --> 01:01:13.683 - health-wise, we try to cover. You know, it's too bad, because it still makes me mad that the clinic 01:01:13.683 --> 01:01:18.782 - closed here with the health, because that would have also been a great... 01:01:19.202 --> 01:01:26.219 - partnership? Yeah, I think they closed somewhere around the time that we opened. And I was like, there 01:01:26.219 --> 01:01:33.303 - was still information online about them. And so I like showed up at the door and I was like, wait, this 01:01:33.303 --> 01:01:40.592 - is locked. Yeah. But if there was ever anything that, you know, for expansion purposes, bringing something 01:01:40.592 --> 01:01:48.222 - like that back and. It still irks me today. Well, we won't make you stay any longer. I mean, we don't have much 01:01:50.658 --> 01:01:59.249 - Thank you so much. It was so nice to meet you all. Thank you so much for listening and for letting us 01:01:59.249 --> 01:02:08.176 - speak. Thank you for your work. Of course. Thank you for yours. Yes. What's the report show, the graduate 01:02:08.176 --> 01:02:16.683 - student report that they put together? What does it show? Yep. And are quite a bit behind. Oh, yeah. 01:02:16.683 --> 01:02:19.294 - No way. Is it about access or? 01:02:20.514 --> 01:02:26.631 - Yes. The data that exists for women's health or disparity in income? I'm trying to think of. It's always 01:02:26.631 --> 01:02:32.574 - access. Distrust in local government. You can take that. If you want, take it and just drop it off to 01:02:32.574 --> 01:02:38.575 - me some other time if you read it. I can bring it back to you tomorrow. Yeah, whenever. Yeah, take it. 01:02:38.575 --> 01:02:44.343 - Awesome. Thank you. Yeah. Rising utility and energy costs. So real. OK. Yeah, for sure. Thank you. 01:02:44.343 --> 01:02:45.566 - Thank you, guys. OK. 01:03:02.466 --> 01:03:10.870 - Hi. My favorite part about working as a med school. Well, yeah, I mean, it's always makes you feel hopeful. 01:03:10.870 --> 01:03:18.963 - You know, like people still out there doing the work and you know, it's the way I feel about, you know, 01:03:18.963 --> 01:03:27.056 - when I work with artists or like, you know, people in different cultures that, you know, living outside 01:03:27.056 --> 01:03:31.102 - the norm and still fighting the good fight makes me 01:03:31.618 --> 01:03:44.858 - I feel amazing. But I will talk more about, yeah, so I did present today on the project and how we're 01:03:44.858 --> 01:03:58.099 - working towards phase two. I gave the commissioners a bound copy of the report and the phase two data 01:03:58.099 --> 01:04:01.214 - collection information. 01:04:01.378 --> 01:04:08.620 - in my head think, oh, I wanted to go down to Pride. I know a couple, I figured they would be helpful 01:04:08.620 --> 01:04:16.220 - in letting me be there to try to collect data. And then I know another business, I know a business that's 01:04:16.220 --> 01:04:23.534 - gonna be down there that would probably be Caveat and Thor, which would probably let me put a QR code 01:04:23.534 --> 01:04:31.134 - and information at their table, even though I haven't. Just to try to keep going on collecting more data. 01:04:31.650 --> 01:04:43.042 - I just became an owner of the survey. And the survey currently is open until October 1st. So we have 01:04:43.042 --> 01:04:54.546 - quite a bit of time to still collect more information. And even in the report, one of the suggestions 01:04:54.546 --> 01:05:00.862 - was just ongoing, because you want ongoing collections. 01:05:01.666 --> 01:05:12.512 - need to put end dates on it sometimes so people actually feel like they need to do it. That's all I 01:05:12.512 --> 01:05:23.358 - have about what I've done. Do you have any parts of the data or policy? Because we haven't met yet. 01:05:23.458 --> 01:05:30.923 - No, I just, all I'm trying to do is find a time for us to meet, so I sent a suggestion for meeting time, 01:05:30.923 --> 01:05:38.387 - and we'll see if that works for the two committees to meet together, and hopefully that'll get us going. 01:05:38.387 --> 01:05:45.497 - Any updates for outreach that you wanna share? We're going out on Sunday, and Julia was kind enough 01:05:45.497 --> 01:05:51.966 - to bring us some donations, so Jennifer and I are gonna meet up, I'll check in with Tiana, 01:05:52.418 --> 01:06:00.100 - We'll do it for longer, so we'll have like a bigger report. I still owe everybody like that plan of 01:06:00.100 --> 01:06:08.013 - who we're gonna hit, but I figured we might as well just hit Seminary Park again since it's a bit, but 01:06:08.013 --> 01:06:15.696 - we're gonna bring surveys with us too. Awesome. Yeah. We owe you a comprehensive update. I was just 01:06:15.696 --> 01:06:20.382 - gonna say there is a, I don't remember, but there is another 01:06:20.866 --> 01:06:27.299 - I think Kathleen was talking about it when she was here or we talked about it later, but there is somebody 01:06:27.299 --> 01:06:33.190 - out there in the community already doing this kind of thing. Yeah. So it would be a good idea to, 01:06:33.190 --> 01:06:39.622 - you know, yeah, work with them and no reason to recreate wheels and, you know, just to be able to continue 01:06:39.622 --> 01:06:45.754 - to provide support. I don't recall Kathleen mentioning that when she was here. I don't think she did. 01:06:45.754 --> 01:06:49.662 - I think it was after. I'll text her. I'll call her and text her. 01:06:51.234 --> 01:07:02.851 - We're not willing to do double work, but collaboration is always great. I don't even remember what's 01:07:02.851 --> 01:07:13.662 - on the agenda, but no new business, any public comment. Jodi was on there. She's still there. 01:07:21.026 --> 01:07:28.641 - have nothing else and we're actually like there's only three of us now so we're not a quorum anymore 01:07:28.641 --> 01:07:36.557 - anyway but I do know I can't I feel like I announced we know this already but the next meeting September 01:07:36.557 --> 01:07:44.473 - is not here it is gonna be in showers I think that was been announced like a while ago but I will verify 01:07:44.473 --> 01:07:48.318 - that later and make sure that you know everyone is 01:07:52.802 --> 01:08:03.059 - but it will be on the same third Thursday at 5.30, but it won't be in this. They have budget hearings 01:08:03.059 --> 01:08:13.617 - going on at that time. Anything else? I gotta go to the comedy attic. Maria Bamford. Anyway, it is 6.42, 01:08:13.617 --> 01:08:22.366 - 6.43. I'm gonna call this meeting adjourned if that is okay. And thank you for coming.