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FOCUS GROUPS

Update as of 4/16/25:

Thanks for your interest! Focus groups are now full.

INTERVIEWS

Now seeking up to 20 mental health service providers and other healers (e.g., therapists, social workers, nurse practitioners, etc.) about what they have seen help LGBTQ+ NY women and their communities heal.

Individual interviews will happen on Zoom or in the Capital region.

$50 compensation is offered.

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PROJECT ADVISORY BOARD

Now seeking 10 Project Advisory Board members - a diverse group of LGBTQ+ women in NY - to broadly oversee the development of a new mental health peer support program for LGBTQ+ women in upstate NY.

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LGBTQ Solace is a research and action project of the School of Social Welfare, College of Integrated Health Sciences, University at Albany, SUNY. The study is funded through the Faculty Research Award Program (FRAP-A) at UAlbany (5/1/2024-10/30/2025) and funding is managed through the SUNY Research Foundation. The study protocol, "Towards the Development of a Novel Mental Health Peer Support Intervention for Sexual Minority Women in New York State" has been reviewed and approved by the University at Albany Institutional Review Board (Protocol 23X214).