Interpreter training - Inclusive Practice for Working with People with Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Bodies from Refugee Backgrounds, 7 May 2025

The workshop is intended for interpreters, with a focuss on building understanding of specific issues faced by people with a refugee background who identify as members of the LGBTIQA+ community; including strengths, vulnerabilities and the risks experienced in their home countries, during the journey and resettling in Australia.

It will highlight the multiple oppressions faced and explore the diversity of needs and experiences that are grouped under the LGBTIQA+ framework. The workshop will explore: Definitions, identity and diversity; the complex challenges of refugee trauma, dislocation, resettlement and cultural transition; refugee trauma informed care, sexual diversity and different faiths. Increase participants’ awareness of how to identify assumptions or biases that may impact negatively on the provision of effective assistance, and how to enhance the ability to work in partnership with LGBTIQA+ clients. Enhance participants ability to work in partnership with clients with diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression Sex Characteristics so that they become (more) LGBTIQA+ safe and welcoming.