My Nonprofit Reviews

I met Scout, Director of the National LGBT Cancer Network Inc., for the first time last June when he presented at the Annual Cancer Summit sponsored by the Partnership to Reduce Cancer in RI, an organization that I direct. One of the topics of the Summit was health disparities and how it is impacting the LGBTQ communities. Dr. Scout's forthright discussion of his own involvement in the health system as a transgender adult and the need to make health services more welcoming and responsive to the needs of the LGBTQ community hit a responsive cord with the more than 150 people in attendance. We have subsequently met twice to plan a strategy to create a plan to highlight the issues facing the LGBTQ community and its access to healthcare and measures to remove the barriers. His leadership on these issues has attracted representatives from the RI Department of Health, Lifespan, and Care NE, the latter two, the largest healthcare systems in the state to our meetings. We are fortunate to have his organization headquartered in our state.