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The Mormon Mental Health Association is holding its third annual conference Wednesday, featuring discussions on LGBT issues, sexuality, domestic violence, sexual assault, infertility and other topics.

Wednesday's MMHA event will begin at 9 a.m. at the University of Utah's Union (200 S. Central Campus Drive), with three separate presentations:

• A look at sexual violence in the state with Julie Valentine, a sexual assault nurse examiner and Brigham Young University professor who has researched sexual violence.

• The release of the results of a survey of LGBTQ Mormons by Bill Bradshaw, a retired BYU professor.

• A discussion of how to "rise strong" after family conflicts such as divorce by Elizabeth Dalton, an attorney and family mediator.

The conference continues until 5 p.m., closing with the keynote "Why the big deal about equality? Connections between Inequality and Domestic Violence" by Liz Albertson, president of the Utah Association for Domestic Violence Treatment. See the full schedule here.

Based in Wichita, Kan., the group is not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and — unlike the longtime Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists — does not require its members to personally adhere to LDS standards or consider church doctrine in their professional work. Instead, MMHA focuses on finding the best ways to treat Mormon clients who may be struggling with issues that are intertwined with their religious views.

The group also has taken stances on issues in the LDS community, disavowing treatments that claim to cure sex or porn addiction or change sexual orientation. MMHA also supports same-sex marriage and is "deeply concerned" about a 2015 update to church policy that considers those in same-sex marriages as apostate, and bars children of same-sex couples from receiving certain religious rites until they are 18.