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We are pleased to announce that The LGBT Healthy Families Initiative, a project of the Lesbian and Gay Family Building Project was recently chosen by the Genetic Alliance to recieve a Community Centered Family Health History Program Award.

     
   

The Community Centered Family Health History Program Award enables us to survey LGBT families about their attitudes concerning the importance of family health history and from that information, create a customized toolkit. This toolkit will contain LGBT sensitive materials for health history information collection and organization to be used in an effort to create a healthier LGBT community.

The toolkits: A Guide to Family Health History and A Guide to Understanding Genetics and Health will be finalized and mailed to everyone who participates in taking our survey "Understanding LGBT Family Health History". We will also be providing the services of a genetic counselor, who is knowledgable about the unique structures of LGBT families to answer questions that may come up then collecting family health history.

In order to help us and be a part of this groundbreaking program please complete this short survey.

Thank you for participating in this innovative program which will help pave the way to better health futures for LGBT families!

  
 
               

Healthy Futures

A guide to healthy living through family health history awareness.

                
 

Promoting an Awareness of Family Health History and Future Health in LGBT Families

LGBT families are created in many unique ways. Our identified families share history, traditions and values and common medical backgrounds. This website was created to help LGBT families to understand how health, family history, health beliefs, healthy living and genetic background are an important part of future health.

Health care professionals have known for a long time that common diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes can run in families. New studies show that even families who are not biologically related often share health concerns that stem from behavior and lifestyle choices. Your personal health is influences by your family health history.

Do you ever wonder:

  • How will my grandmother's health conditions affect my health?
  • Does diabetes or heart disease run in my family?
  • How will our sperm donor's medical history affect our child?
  • How do my partner's health beliefs affect our family's health?

If you have, then you are in the right place!

The LGBT Healthy Families Initiative has tools and information to help you on the journey to future health.

 
     
                 
 


LGBT Rating System for Hospitals

by The Associated Press
Posted: May 13, 2008 - 7:30 am ET

"(New York City) Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations which hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of gay and lesbian patients."

 
               
 
   


The LGBT Healthy Families Initiative is a program of The Gay and Lesbian Family Building Project of Ferre Institute, Inc.

To learn more about our programs visit: www.Ferre.org and www.PrideAndJoyFamilies.org.

  
               
   

Ferre Institute is a non-profit organization devoted to quality services in genetics and reproductive health. Ferre Institute provides professional education to medical providers, counselors, and other human services personnel. Individual counseling and education are also provided to patients of all ages in the Genetic Counseling, Family Building, and Prenatal Risk Programs.