PIRE Southwest

November is National Youth Homeless Awareness Month. Millions of youth experience homelessness each year across the United States, but they often go unseen and their needs unmet. At PIRE Southwest, we are working to change this situation. Read more about our work at https://bit.ly/3sUPku8

Are you an researcher or practitioner? Join us for appetizers, drinks, and collaboration! With the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration, UNM Health Sciences, and the Scholars Strategy Network

9/27 5:30-7:30pm UNM University Club

Looking forward to it!

📣 Meaningful Community Engagement in Qualitative Implementation Research 📣

We're excited for this webinar featuring PIRE Southwest employee Dr. Cathleen Willging, and our amazing colleagues at Transgender Resource Center of New Mexicoand New Day Youth & Family Services!

It's this Friday (9/8) at 10am PT- register here: bit.ly/3ONfeZr

UC San Diego ACTRI Dissemination and Implementation Science Center & San Diego Center for AIDS Research

PIRE supports youth, now more than ever. Read the Trevor Project's new report to learn more about why this work is so important.

2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health is the organization’s fourth annual national survey, amplifying the experiences of nearly 34,000 LGBTQ youth ages 13 to 24 across…

Upcoming event TOMORROW from the New Mexico Scholars Strategy Network and the City of Albuquerque - Office of Equity & Inclusion

✨XYZ of DEI: Mindsets and Culture that Build Sustainable Equity and Belonging with Rozella Kennedy✨

5:30pm at the Nexus Blue Smokehouse

We hope to see you there!
Daniel Shattuck & Cathleen Willging

We developed a comprehensive LGBTQ Toolkit to guide cultural competence in health care. Based on and provider voices and theory, the toolkit provides clear guidance and implementation techniques for health care organizations to make lasting improvements for care. https://bit.ly/3DdO7go

The Supporting At-Home Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (SASY) project assessed in real time the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing. Findings were shared with key audiences to improve supports and mitigate risks for . http://bit.ly/406bcNX

PIRE has a strong history of engagement with communities. This National Awareness Week, we want to share some of our projects and resources from the Center!

The Reducing Adolescent Su***de project helped high schools across New Mexico implement strategies to support . https://bit.ly/RLAS

PIRE Southwest works extensively with youth and teen populations. LGBTQ youth are at particular risk for dating violence.

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. The Children’s Safety Now Alliance, of which PIRE is a member, has developed a fact sheet on teen dating violence (go.edc.org/CSNA-TDVP).

Great work by fellow PIRE Research Scientist Dr. Eduardo Romero on the important topic of safe driving.

A new study, co-authored by PIRE Research Scientist Dr. Eduardo Romano, finds that adult drivers with child passengers are significantly more likely than those without child passengers to be in fatal crashes.
https://www.pire.org/ -drivers-children

New article! 💪 Power and resistance in schools: Implementing institutional change to promote health equity for sexual and gender minority youth. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ http://bit.ly/3hrjjEc

Power and resistance in schools: Implementing institutional change to promote health equity for sexual and gender minority youth IntroductionSchools in the United States are hierarchical institutions that actively (re)produce the power relations of the wider social world, including those associated with heteronormativity. Structural stigma, informed by heteronormativity and perpetuated through schools, contributes to the prod...