- Explore the status of LGBTI+ health and wellbeing.
- Individually analyse your own assumptions and values and reflect on the implications in your delivery of health care to LGBTI+ communities.
- Understand the importance and use of appropriate language.
- Identify and understand the unique vulnerabilities and health barriers that LGBTI+ communities face.
- Improve your confidence in comprehensively meeting the needs of LGBTI+ consumers.
- Improve skills around intake and assessment.
- Gain practical knowledge in providing a LGBTI+ affirmative environment.
Training and Education
LGBTIQ+ Cultural Awareness Training Modules
Thorne Harbour Health Training and Capacity Building aims to develop your workforce and improve sector capacity through training, education and consultation. We seek to address those issues and barriers impacting access to LGBTI+ health by increasing understanding and building the capacity of your organisation.
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We understand that supporting the LGBTI+ community can require a specific set of skills and practical knowledge as well as lived experience in order to provide an LGBTI affirming environment.
As a community-controlled organisation, it’s important to us that we can provide our allies with the education and resources to do this.
LGBTI+ Cultural Awareness Training
Trans and Gender Diverse Cultural Awareness Training
- Build understanding of trans and gender diverse health and wellbeing.
- Understand the importance and use of respectful and appropriate language.
- Understand the impact of discrimination on trans and gender diverse people.
- Understand and apply the legislative and legal requirements to respect and recognise gender identity.
- Explore and develop trans and gender diverse policy and practice recommendations.
- Develop strategies to create cultural safety.
Note: Eligible health professionals may be able to access TGD Health training free of charge via our TGDiCH program.
Alcohol and Drug Use within LGBTI+ Communities: Cultural Awareness Training
In addition to the outcomes outlined in our LGBTI+ Cultural Awareness Training, this module includes:
- Context and relevant statistics in regards to alcohol and drug use within LGBTI+ communities.
- Understand the complexity and risk of methamphetamine use for men who have sex with men (MSM) and aim to improve treatment outcomes for this community.
- Understand the broader AOD issues for LGBTI+ communities.
Family Violence within LGBTI+ Communities: Cultural Awareness Training
In addition to the outcomes outlined in our LGBTI+ Cultural Awareness Training, this module includes:
- Context and relevant statistics in regards to family violence, intimate partner violence and sexual assault impacting LGBTI+ people in Australia.
- A framework for understanding family violence and intimate partner violence in LGBTI+ communities/relationships (LGBTI+ power and control resources).
- Barriers to accessing services and common presentations.
Reflective Practice Sessions (optional 1-hour add on to any of the above modules)
- Opportunity to reflect on our own practice in a professional and personal context.
- Engage in a process of ongoing learning through case study examples.
- Consider affirmative actions to take in your role.
- Opportunity to consider our own privileges and unlearn assumptions.
- Identify microaggressions and consider how we can address them.
- Consider additional challenges of having an intersectional lived experience.
Just a quick one to thank you both for supporting our teams with this training rollout over the last month or so. It was a big undertaking but so incredibly valuable to our teams and their practice and we so appreciate it!
The feedback from both groups has been overwhelmingly positive since, and has seemed to really energise and mobilise all the teams which has been awesome to see, with a few working groups now popping up across the teams and some really practical steps being taken to strengthen our practice.
Thank you for creating such an open and safe space for people to think deeply, reflect and learn from yourselves and each other.
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