Training Topics

Our staff can provide training on a variety in a variety of areas to better equip you and your program to serve the LGBT community.  We've listed below an overview of the curricula that we currently offer.  Remember we are always happy to tailor a program to meet your specific needs...and if you would like training in a specific area but do not see it listed below, just contact us and we'll work with you to develop the perfect curriculum!!

Current trainings:

• LGBT Sensitivity & Ally Building
  This training, geared towards a general audience, overviews the basics of understanding the LGBT community, becoming a supportive ally to LGBT people and how to become a stonger LGBT advocate.
  
  
• LGBT Healthcare:  Disparities & Access to Care
  This training, specifically geared towards medical/clinical staff (and students pursuing these careers/fields), is designed to create both increased cultural and clinical competence in working with LGBT patients by providing a general overview of the LGBT community, identifying their health disparities & barriers to care, and giving providers specific strategies and tools to remove these barriers.
  
  
• Providing Culturally Competent Human Services to LGBT Consumers
  This training, appropriate for non-medical human service providers, is designed to improve services for the LGBT community by giving a general overview of the LGBT community, identifying common barriers they face in accessing services, and giving providers specific strategies and tools to remove these barriers.
  
  
• Working with LGBT Youth
  This training, appropriate for any health/human service provider working specifically with youth, addresses specifically the needs and issues faced by LGBT youth & young adults.
  
  
• Creating Safe & Inclusive School Environments for LGBT Students
  This training, using materials developed by GLSEN (Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network), is geared towards primary &/or secondary school-based staff to understand the needs and concerns of LGBT students, including bias-related bullying and harassment.
  
  
• Promoting Safe & Inclusive Dorms
  This training for residential life staff on college campuses addresses the specific needs LGBT students in a campus environment including general sensitivity, recognizing and addressing problems LGBT students might face and working to include LGBT students in the residence hall community.
  
  
• Transgender Sensitivity
  Appropriate for a wide variety of audiences, this training provides a general overview of important language and concepts in dealing with the transgender community as well as detailed discussion of the needs & barriers faced by this population.
  
  
• Transgender Issues in Accessing Homeless/Housing Shelter Programs
  This training takes a focused look at the risks for homelessness in the transgender community as well as the barriers they face in accessing traditional shelter programs and tips on how to address these barriers.
  
  
• Addressing the Substance Use & Addiction Recovery Needs of the LGBT Population
  This training, created specifically for substance use & recovery providers, focuses on the unique issues and needs of the LGBT substance user/abuser including data about disparities in use, barriers to services in traditional treatment settings and tools for providers to improve access to care.
  
  
• Club Drugs, Substance Use & Sexual Risk in LGBT Patients
  Created with both medical and human service providers in mind, this training provides an overview of club/party drugs & other substances and their relationship to both physical and sexual risk.  A focus is given on good interviewing strategies and incorporating harm reduction tips into patient care.