Sat, Jun 29
|Bruce Bollin Building
Black Pride Health Summit
Time & Location
Jun 29, 2024, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Bruce Bollin Building, 2300 Washington St, Roxbury, MA 02119, USA
About the Event
The Boston Lesbigay Urban Foundation and the MGH Center for Community Health Improvement cordially invite you to the 3rd Annual Urban Pride Health Summit and Brunch.
There will be two plenary sessions:
- A conversation about Cancer in the Black and Latino LGBTQIA+ communities.
- A conversation about Prep in the Black and Latino LGBTQIA+ communities.communities.
There will be health resource tables.
There will be a breakout session on Substance Use Disorder (SUD) hosted by the MGH Bridge Clinic followed by a Book Club session using reading as a tool to address anxiety and insomnia that come along with with SUD hosted by Queen Vivian Smith Barnes, author of Mask Off, surviving the mental health epidemic in Urban America. They will give away a copy of the Scenes From My Life book by Michael K. Williams.
There will be a simultaneous breakout session for youth on Substance Use Disorder (SUD).
Brunch will be catered by the Dudley Café.