Who in the world is…!? FORGE & MCW Inclusion Health Clinic

Do you wonder what services are available at FORGE? Or from Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin’s, Inclusion Health Clinic? This session will share brief overviews of what you can access (and how), and leave plenty of time for your questions.

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PACT NOW = Preventing and Assisting with COVID-19 among Trans and Non-binary Wisconsinites. PACT NOW is a partnership between FORGE and Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Inclusion Health Clinic.

This project is funded by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Introduction 0:00
Froedtert Health: System-wide activities 1:49
Inclusion Health Clinic 5:17
Why Froedtert opened the Inclusion Health Clinic 5:25
What’s available at the Inclusion clinic? 7:26
What to expect: improved history forms 9:00
What to expect at the visit 9:40
Other gender-affirming services available at Froedtert 14:25
Is the Inclusion Clinic accepting new patients? 15:59
Psychiatry/mental health care available through Inclusion 17:34

Who is FORGE? 20:22
FORGE staff 21:17
FORGE background and services 21:35
Mission and core beliefs 22:26
FORGE’s history from 1994 to 2020 24:07
What does FORGE do nationally? 27:28
National work for trans+ survivors 28:51
2019 snapshot (national work) 30:17

FORGE in Wisconsin: local work 30:54
What FORGE does in WI for providers 31:13
Group services in Wisconsin 35:25
Support services in Wisconsin 37:46
PACT NOW programming 46:58
2019 snapshot (local work) 48:14
Connect with FORGE (contact info) 49:33
Connect with FORGE on social media 50:04
Shelley’s contact info 50:44

Q&A 51:13
Can FORGE provide assistance in case of being arrested at protests? 51:44
Can FORGE help with getting a signature notarized 53:01
What’s coming up? 55:22