Find a Federally Qualified Health Center

(searchable by zip code)

You know how when you get referred to a nonprofit for care or help, you sometimes get there and they look at you blankly and sadly because they lost that grant the previous year? Your Peer NYC (sorry it’s NYC specific) is a service locator that includes when the service was last verified. So you know you’re not wasting your gas money/subway ride/time etc.

HELP WITH LEGAL STUFF IN HOSPITALS (NYLAG)

Kevin Moore, LGBT Liason at NYU

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Part 1 Here

Part 2 Here

WIDENING THE CIRCLE: FAITH COMMUNITIES

To find an LGBT friendly church (code word: open/affirming)

BOOKS

About the links: the first link is to the book-specific page on Bookshop, which is a great Amazon alternative that only works with independent booksellers and is generally the same price and same shipping speed. Second link is to Amazon, because sometimes you have a gift card. Or whatever. I’m not here to judge! Both links give me a tiny commission to throw back into workshops, pay for the zoom account, etc.

Share the Care (Amazon: Share the Care)

MORE OF A BOOKLIST COMING SOON! Kelli put up a related list on Benable with lots of resource and book ideas

WIDENING THE CIRCLE–RESOURCES FROM THE GREATER SYSTEMS

TRANSPORTATION

Homobiles

Queer Cab NYC

Mutual Aid Hub

ASKING FOR HELP

Kelli put together a cute little zine about asking for help, you can download it here.

STRUCTURING THE CARE

CaringBridge

Proton mail (secure email choice)

Lotshelpinghands

If you need to watch/read some things that are good for self soothing and a few happier/funnier moments, check out Kelli’s Feeling A Tiny Bit Better Lists

I mentioned Jessica Halem’s newsletter, it’s now on Substack.

Read it here.

When A Casserole Is Not Enough: Extremely Practical Tips For Building Extended Communities of Care

January 14th at 8 pm ET

WHAT WE’RE GOING TO CHAT ABOUT:

Our nontraditional communities often rely on families of choice, rather than families of origin for social support. However, when we develop serious or chronic illness, the care provided by nontraditional support systems doesn’t always easily mesh with current healthcare and social support systems. This is particularly true if no designated primary caregiver exists, and the person in need of care lives alone. Add in the dominant culture’s excellence at recreating systems of oppression within the healthcare system, and caregiving and care receiving can be challenging, to say the least. We’ll talk about building the existing structures of extended circle caregiving, how to nurture these networks in mutuality, how to deal with the emotional challenges that being a caregiving and a care receiver can bring up and how to find those support folks, especially if you are geographically or otherwise isolated. This very interactive workshop draws on Kelli’s more than twenty years as a community health nurse, her experiences during the early years of the AIDS crisis, and her lived experience as the primary caregiver of two partners who died of cancer, and as well as survivor of a life-threatening post-surgical infection which required many months of community care. Shoutout to the disability justice folks who have been maintaining mutual aid caregiving circles for always!

Emergency! Planning For Unplanned Healthcare

January 18th at 3 PM ET with special guest current ER nurse Harvey Katz and Leah Strock FNP

WHAT WE’RE GOING TO CHAT ABOUT:

In communities traditionally underserved (or worse) by our healthcare systems we are often particularly—and understandably– wary of seeking emergency care, even when care is badly needed. In this interactive workshop, we’ll walk through a visit to the emergency room, talk about general ER infrastructure, and brainstorm/role-playing ways in which we can be empowered to facilitate relatively positive endings to various ER scenarios. We’ll also discuss picking an ER buddy and developing a written ER plan.

If you already know a lot about these subjects, please join us, we need ALL the tips and ALL THE WISDOM!!!!!!!

ALTHOUGH THESE ARE VERY INTENSE SUBJECTS, DON’T FORGET KELLI’S A COMEDIAN AND STORYTELLER IN ADDITION TO BEING A NURSE.. WE WON’T PROMISE IT’LL BE FUN EXACTLY, BUT KELLI WILL DEFINITELY END WITH A KNOCK KNOCK JOKE AND WE’LL BE REMINDED OF THE STRENGTHS OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND WE’LL ALSO BE BUILDING COMMUNITY!

Kelli has some free downloadable health strategy zines that zines and handouts that illustrate her practical, irreverent approach to topics like pap exams, dealing with healthcare trauma, etc. They’re here.

You can register for both/either on this form and we’ll send you the link the day of the event. We’ll be using a paid Zoom, which is the best compromise of accessibility and security we could figure out for now. If you have already voted for a workshop on the form Kelli previously posted, you will automatically be sent a link.

These workshops (and any future ones!) will always be free but they take a lot of resources to make happen. If you’d like and you’ve got it, we’d love for you to support these workshops (or Kelli’s storytelling work with LGBT youth in Florida and Alabama) by donating here.

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HUMOR STRATEGY BINGO CARD is here:

Write a few words about how you saw/participated in humor strategies, come to the Saturday night show and share one or two items from your card. First person to do this wins a trophy. A personalized trophy. Like you might have gotten at camp if you were really good at swimming or macrame. 

If no one wins Saturday night, email me your completed card and if you’re first…YOU get the trophy!  There are prizes for runner ups too! 

Here are the references and suggestions for further reading.

And then I talked about some lists. Here are the links:

Looking for funny/light things to listen to on your way to work? I’ve got you covered:

Places To Find Workplace Humor That Won’t Land You In Trouble With HR

15 Fun Commute Listens for Nurses, Victim Advocates and Other Folks With Impossible Jobs 

Skeptical That Humor Can’t Be Used To Address Hard Issues- Check Out These Links
Find me on the socials IG, TikTok, Youtube, Facebook

ALSO please check out my substack

IG

TikTok

Youtube

Facebook (Whatever! FB is great for groups)

and yes, LinkedIn

But PLEASE if you want to stay in touch, please subscribe to Kelli’s Substack. It’s only a few clicks more, you get to read (or you have the option of reading, no one is insisting) Kelli’s SUBSTACK ONLY practical tragicomic writing AND if any one specific social site disappears, you’ll still be in contact because Substack actually shares the email addresses of the subscribers with the content creator.

If Substack really isn’t your thing, you can also sign up for the announcement-only email list.

Also, Kelli has a podcast coming soon.

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WANT TO GET IN TOUCH? You can email kellidunham@gmail.com or text 215.964.1963

I have a Substack, the Second Helping Gazette and publish a few times a month with resources on helping helping professionals, well, help. This is a great way to stay in touch! There’s a hilarious practical podcast coming this summer! Subscribe free here.

Want to book me for other trauma informed, kind comic reasons? You can look around the rest of my site for other presentations, workshops, and leadership humor coaching, and also find me on LinkedIn.

You can also follow me on instagram, YouTube, or yes, even Tiktok

Also, this fall I’m opening up an ongoing virtual group called Making It Better. This will be a practical fun supportive space where folks in the helping professions (including a fair number of nurses, it’s looking like) can focus on ways our creative pursuits can help sustain our work. Whether you have a creative outlet (writing? improv? painting? music? synchronized drawing?) that you left behind or need to find one, each meeting we’ll have a discussion, spend some time generating new work and have fun. We’ll also have an (optional but very supportive) virtual performance each quarter so you can invite your coworkers…or your family or your teenage kids, if you’d really to annoy them. You can fill out a short (promise-three questions and one of them is your name) interest indication form here so I can send you an email in the fall with more information.

AND HERE’S A WORKSHEET ON FINDING THE FUNNY IN YOUR NFP NHV DAY

WANT TO GET IN TOUCH? You can email kellidunham@gmail.com or text 215.964.1963

I have a Substack, the Second Helping Gazette and publish a few times a month with resources on helping helping professionals, well, help. This is a great way to stay in touch! There’s a hilarious practical podcast coming this summer! Subscribe free here.

Want to book me for other trauma informed, kind comic reasons? You can look around the rest of my site for other presentations, workshops, and leadership humor coaching, and also find me on LinkedIn.

You can also follow me on instagram, YouTube, or yes, even Tiktok

Finally, this fall I’m opening up an ongoing virtual group called Making It Better. This will be a practical fun supportive space where folks in the helping professions (including a fair number of nurses, it’s looking like) can focus on ways our creative pursuits can help sustain our work. Whether you have a creative outlet (writing? improv? painting? music? synchronized drawing?) that you left behind or need to find one, each meeting we’ll have a discussion, spend some time generating new work and have fun. We’ll also have an (optional but very supportive) virtual performance each quarter so you can invite your coworkers…or your family or your teenage kids, if you’d really to annoy them. You can fill out a short (promise-three questions and one of them is your name) interest indication form here so I can send you an email in the fall with more information.