The National Coalition for LGBT Health

Our work on the initial Missions & Goals is organized around five areas: research; policy; programs and services; professional and cultural competency; and the diversity of the national LGBT community.

The following statements represent long-range goals for the LGBT community. The goals are not mutually exclusive, but rather purposefully interrelated. Taken together, achievement of the goals -and their related objectives - will help to ensure equity in health status and participation in the decision-making process for individual members of the LGBT population and representative organizations.

Goals:

• Change public and private sector policies, laws, and regulation regarding LGBT health and related issues.

• Increase resources to expand culturally competent health and social services delivery to a diverse and inclusive LGBT population

• Build and disseminate knowledge regarding LGBT population's health status, access to and utilization of health care and other health related information

Values:

• The Coalition cares about and seeks to eliminate health disparities that occur based on sexual orientation, gender identity and presentation, gender, race/ethnicity, education or income, disability, nationality, geographic location and age.

• The Coalition derives its power and legitmacy from its membership and is committed to working on partnerships and consultation with it's members in carrying out its work

The Coalition's strategic plan