Improving Behavioral Health Equity: People Who Are Transgender and Nonbinary

Course overview

Behavioral health equity is the right to access high-quality and affordable healthcare services and supports for all populations. Advancing health equity involves ensuring everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This also applies to behavioral health. In conjunction with quality services, this involves addressing social determinants of health, such as employment, housing stability, insurance status, proximity to services, and access to culturally responsive care. All social determinants of health have an impact on behavioral health outcomes. Refer to the Relias Library to view the first course in this series for more foundational information on DEI and achieving greater health equity in organizations. The goal of this course is to provide education to addictions, behavioral health counseling, case and care management, marriage and family therapy, non-licensed direct care, psychology, and social work professionals working in health and human services settings around improving behavioral health equity for people who are transgender and nonbinary.