Women's Health in the South East (WHISE), in partnership with Thorne Harbour Health is pleased to offer a free, online capacity-building session to healthcare and community service professionals, to increase workforce capacity to create culturally appropriate and inclusive services for LGBTIQ+ clients and consumers.

We encourage all healthcare and community service staff to attend, including, but not limited to:

• General practitioners;
• Nurses;
• Practice managers;
• Other Allied Health Professionals;
• Youth Service workers
• Maternal and Child Health staff;
• Professionals in the primary prevention of gendered and intimate partner violence;
• Family violence response services and others.

The learning outcomes for this session are to:

• Increase understanding of LGBTI+ health and wellbeing;
• Individually analyse and challenge assumptions and values and reflect on the implications in your delivery of health care and other service provision to LGBTI+ communities;
• Increase understanding of the importance and use of appropriate language;
• Increase understanding of the unique vulnerabilities and health barriers that LGBTI+ communities face;
• Improve confidence in comprehensively meeting the needs of LGBTI+ consumers.
• Improve skills around intake and assessment of LGBTIQ+ consumers;
• Increase knowledge, skills and confidence in providing a LGBTI+ affirming environment.

Please note we also have a free, online session on Trans and Gender Diverse Inclusive Practice available on Thursday 26 May 6:30 - 8:30pm. This session will be focused on increasing participant's understand of and ability to apply the legislative and legal requirements to respect and recognise gender identity, increasing confidence in developing and implementing trans and gender diverse policy and practice recommendations and creating cultural safety for trans and gender diverse consumers.

Registration for this event is available here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/trans-and-gender-diverse-inclusive-practice-tickets-311646602377

For more information:

If you have any questions about the event, please contact WHISE's Health Promotion Officer, Laura Riccardi via email: lriccardi@whise.org.au.