Menu of 30+ unique trainings and workshops designed to prepare professionals serving LGBTQ+ clients, including: social workers, clinicians, healthcare providers, probation officers, homeless services providers, and many more. Custom sessions available.

Workshop

Core Modules

  • LGBTQ+ Responsiveness Training: Knowledge for Reducing Barriers to Permanency for LGBTQ+ and Gender-Variant Children/Youth in Systems of Care
  • Implementing Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ+ Youth: A Training for Managers and Supervisors
  • Supportive Families, Safe Homes: A Training for Caregivers

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression (SOGIE) 101
  • Childhood Development
  • Terms of Address (affirming names and pronouns)
  • Data Collection
  • Building Rapport
  • Intersectionality
  • Health Disparities
  • Interrupting Implicit and Explicit Biases
  • Coming Out
  • Creating Safer and Affirming Spaces
  •  Implementing Policies & Procedures
  • Trauma-Informed Care
  • Harm Reduction
  • Low Barrier Practices
  • Positive Youth Engagement & Leadership Development
  • Tools for Supporting Caregivers, Coworkers, and More
  •  Youth-Adult Partnerships
  • Gender Affirming Care 101
  • Supporting Survivors (Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Intimate Partner Violence)
  • Direct Service Interventions
  • Supporting Neurodivergent and Disabled Youth
  • Providing Faith-Based Support & Addressing Religious Trauma
  • Working with Transition Aged Youth (TAY)
  • Dual-Status Youth
  • Legal Rights
  • Suicide Prevention