LGBTIQ+SB Affirmative Practice Training for the AOD Sector Workforce

🔴Do you work in the alcohol and drug sector?

🟠Would you like to build more confidence in providing affirming and culturally safer services for LGBTIQ+SB folk?

⚫️The most significant barrier to AOD and mental health treatment and support for LGBTIQ+SB people is the provision of culturally safe and affirming services.

🟡Rainbow Affinity delivers professional development packages to support individual practitioners and organisations provide affirming and culturally safer services for LGBTIQ+SB folk, and is hosting an online, 4 hour workshop on the 21st of November for the alcohol and other drug sector workforce.

🟣The following topics will be covered in online training:

• Understanding affirmative practice

• Unpacking and exploring the LGBTIQ+SB identities

• Pronouns (what are they and why are they important)

• What is the prevalence of substance use in the LGBTIQ+SB community?

• Lived realities for LGBTIQ+SB folk and communities - contemporary research and data

• How does substance use uniquely affect the LGBTIQ+SB community?

• Adopting affirming language and providing an inclusive culture

• Reflective practice case scenarios unique to alcohol and other drug workforce

🟢 Jack (he/they) is a proud trans man and Social Worker blending his experience working within the mental health and alcohol and other drug sector, with his lived experience.

🔵Jack’s practice spans counselling, training, advocacy and research. He was recently recognised with the LGBTIQA+ Worker Award at the 2024 Australian Winter School Conference hosted by QNADA, and is currently involved in a research project in collaboration with folk from The University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, La Trobe University, and Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies (NADA) that explores how trans people in Australia seek support for AOD use and how these experiences can be improved.

🟤Rainbow Affinity has delivered training to organisations such as Lives Lived Well, Headspace, Salvation Army, Communify, QUT, Gestalt Therapy Brisbane and many more!

💥 Date: 21st November 2025

💥 Time: 8.30am - 12.30pm

💥 Location: Online event