No-cost LBTQ Health Screenings Available

The Women’s Health Outreach at the YWCA together with Swedish Breast Center is conducting a no-cost LBTQ focused mammogram and pap test screening on Sat. August 18th, 9-3pm for people who are income eligible and are un- or underinsured. People with insurance are welcome!! The screening will take place at the Wildrose, 1021 E Pike Street Seattle, WA 98122. For an appointment please call Ingrid: 206.461.4493.

By ryan at Mon, 08/06/2012 - 11:50am

Train to be an Emergency Medical Technician

King County Emergency Medical Services is looking for EMTs and are providing a full scholarship to those who have been traditionally underrepresented in hiring practices.  The enxt training begins on August 15, 2012.

Eligibility Requirements

  •  High School Graduate or G.E.D
  • At least 18 years of age by 8/15/2012
  • CPR certification (Training will be provided prior to start of class)
  • Passing score on a pre-class first aid test (Training will be provided prior to start of class)
  • Washington State Driver's License

By ryan at Fri, 07/06/2012 - 3:07pm

It's the 4th of July!

Hey, guess what!!!  Today is the 4th of July!  It also happens to be the first Wednesday of the month.  What does that mean?  Well it's a break-out night at Ingersoll, of course!  The federal government may shut down on holidays, your bank might be closed, and you might be bummed that your college campus is closed; but Ingersoll is here and we can't wait to see you tonight at 7 PM!  

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By amanda at Wed, 07/04/2012 - 8:42am

4th of July

Many of you may have seen the signs at Seattle Counseling Services noting their closure for the holiday.  Ingersoll has a long and wonderful tradition of providing peer-led support groups every single week of the year and the 4th of July will be no different!  Hope to see you all there! 

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By amanda at Thu, 06/28/2012 - 10:11am

Introduction to Transgender Clinical Training.

Recently, I asked a friend who has worked as a therapist with the LGBTQ community for the past fifteen years to imagine he was meeting with a transgendered client for the first time and to imagine that he had never worked with one before. I suggested further that this MtF individual was just beginning to transition and wanted this clinician’s support. I wanted his emotional & cognitive responses before they were censored by good clinical practice or political correctness.

My friend reminded me that despite his gay identity he came from a small town in the Midwest. He acknowledged he is a bit older (in his 60’s). He was not in regular contact with this population.
 
His first response was to paraphrase a Susan Sontag quote that what the individual might be seeking was “cutting off” his/her “feet to make the shoes fit.” He said it might also remind him of his first heroin or meth addict. He worried he might get seduced by the unique path the individual was on and miss important clinical issues. He recalled a time when he saw a man who was in a long standing polyamorus relationship with two other individuals. The man he saw wanted help with grief issues around the recent death of his mother. My friend said he really wanted to explore the relationship and detoured down that path for several sessions before realizing his error. He apologized and did more appropriate grief and loss therapy with his client.
 

By Alison Davison at Wed, 06/27/2012 - 3:38pm

KCLS and Becoming a Visible Man

We have been alerted that King County Library System has decided not to carry Jamison Green's book Becoming a Visible Man due to the financial figures for the medical procedures listed being out of date.  They are offering to get the book through their interlibrary system.  This book is one of the most popular books for Transmen who are starting their transition as it so closely mirrors their own experience.

Your help is needed to encourage KCLS to reconsider their decision.  Please call up your local branch and request that they carry Becoming a Visible Man. If they offer to get it through their interlibrary loan system, please kindly explain the value of this book and the need for KCLS to make it available through their own system.

By ryan at Wed, 06/27/2012 - 10:55am

A Word From Our Founder

Once again Ingersoll grows!  Together we take the next steps toward our great goal: perfect service and support for all who visit us and all who are part of our social family.


In the early years of Ingersoll we spent a lot time on the simple things of survival, things like basic care and access to help for daily life.  While these concerns remain fully part of our work we are now able to give attention to the wider full-person joys of self-discovery and the wonderfully exciting Community that has risen out of these efforts together.

 

Support Groups are still our ground, our heart, and more people are attending these then ever before in our history – we are now a vibrant, strong, and proud tribute to those days of the past!  And we are much more.  We work on employment issues with our Seattle Transgender Economic Empowerment Project, we partner with legal groups that provide professional assistance for maters of documents and transition, we provide resources and referrals, and we are continually increasing our social and creative projects.  We take our joys seriously!

 

Ingersoll is here, experienced and ready to be part of your quest.  We are a wide new world of hope, advancing hand-in-hand with other organizations and Allies, well aware of our task as a safe home to nurture new ideas, individual possibilities, and truly wondrous works.

Join Us!  As Robert Ingersoll said:  “The Time to be Happy is Now!”


-- Marsha Botzer


By ryan at Mon, 06/25/2012 - 12:31pm

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