Conference Format

The 2024 2SLGBTQ+ Meaningful Care Conference will be a hybrid event. The in-person event will be held at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel, and the event will be live-streamed using Zoom. Both the in-person and online conference will be hosted on Whova.

Precautions Against Communicable Disease

Meaningful care is designed to center those among us who are, or live with others who are immunocompromised, disabled, aging, recovering, or otherwise more vulnerable to communicable diseases. Masking provides group protection against viral illness and can show solidarity among attendees. The conference planning committee will review COVID-19 case numbers prior to the event and may require that all in-person attendees wear masks at the conference. If you are registering to attend in-person, please be prepared to wear a mask at the conference. We will communicate with all attendees about the mask policy at least two weeks prior to the conference.

Please note that if masks are required, we will do our best to accommodate those who read lips. During the registration process, you will have the opportunity to request accommodations related to this.

We encourage all in-person attendees to take a COVID-19 test within a few days prior to the conference. If you test positive or have any symptoms, please do not attend in-person. You are welcome to attend the conference online. Please note we cannot offer refunds for those who cannot attend in person due to illness.

The conference planning committee also plans to “double-seat” conference spaces (meaning, every other chair will be empty) and aims to have hand sanitizer and masks available for in-person attendees.

Venue

The in-person event will be held at the Sheraton Portland Airport Hotel. If you’d like to book a hotel room using our group rate, please see the information below.

Parking at the hotel costs $20 per car, per night. Those parking only on the day of the conference can park for free.

Booking a Hotel Room

The group rate is $152 plus taxes per room, per night. To secure the group rate, you must book no later than March 5th, 2024.

Online booking is only available for those seeking a room with one king-sized bed. It is also only available for those staying the nights of March 26th and/or March 27th. For rooms with two beds and for other dates, please call the Sales Office at 503-335-2857 and ask to speak with Shelby Martinez.

 

100% of registration fees are being collected by Cascade AIDS Project, the fiscal sponsor for the LGBTQ+ Health Coalition of the Columbia Willamette to offset the material costs of the event.  Collaborating organizations do not receive any of the proceeds of this event.