Following from consultation with members, we are proud to be delivering LGBQTIA+ Awareness Training to support members of the Northern Beaches Youth sector.

Delivered by ACON, this training will provide practitioners with the essential tools to navigate working with the diverse and sometime complex space.

LGBTQ+ Inclusion Competencies are what we is used to describe the actions of an informed, effective LGBTQ+ ally. All the information presented throughout this training relates to a specific competency, each with a different Learning Outcome to describe the skills you will have after completing the training.

Competency: Demonstrates essential awareness of diverse communities
- Learning Outcome: Define LGBTQ+ and differentiate between gender and sexuality
Competency: Prioritises the voices of those with lived experience in understanding the experiences of diverse communities
- Learning Outcome: Describe some of the common shared experiences of the trans community
Competency: Utilises knowledge of the importance of inclusion to support the need of affirming services for diverse communities
- Learning Outcome: Outline the history and impacts of discrimination on the LGBTQ+ community and the significance of reducing this through visibility and inclusion
Competency: Develops strategies and implements actions to increase access and inclusion for people in minority groups
- Learning Outcome: Implement practical LGBTQ+ allyship including inclusive language and appropriate terminology, creating safer interactions and physical spaces
Competency: Identifies key health priorities for people in minority groups
- Learning Outcome: Describe current health challenges for the LGBTQ+ community

Ticketing options are available for members and non-members. Please note if you are not a financial member and select the member option, your ticket will be cancelled.

Membership can be purchased to assist in offsetting costs. This is also and option at check out.

Catering is included with the training being delivered at the Beach School Sydney.

We look forward to seeing you there!