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.
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