2024 In My Mind LGBTQIA+

Black and Peoples of Color Mental Health Conference

“Moving to Thriving and Belonging”

Migrant Communities’ Healing Journeys

Focuses on LGBTQIA+ Black and People Color migrants, asylum seekers and refugees.

Friday, October 11 and Saturday, October 12, 2024

The New School, NYC

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

IMM24 will take place on Friday, October 11 and Saturday, October 12, 2024, with check-in/registration on both days at 8:00am, the formal program beginning at 9:00am, continuing through the first day, concluding at 5:30pm, and half day on the second day, concluding at 2:00pm. This forum is for clinicians, academics, advocates, activists, community members with lived experience, and students. 

The Conference will feature 45-minute Speaker presentations to establish common starting points, which will be followed by 75-minute concurrent single/stand-alone, small group webinars – some geared for clinicians and others for community members.

Program: Abstract Submission and Tracks:

The Conference theme sets the tone for selected presentations from our abstract submission process, conforming to four tracks (see Submission Guidelines)

• Track A – Advocacy

• Track B – Community

• Track C – Education, and

• Track D – Research.

The call for abstracts will be in two phases:

  • Phase I for community members who submitted and presented at IMM over the past nine years, begins on April 1 and ends on April 30, and

  • Phase II for the wider global community from May 1 to May 31

- submit abstracts HERE

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed and selected by an independent panel, and a draft program will be made available in the first week of July, when early registration will commence.