Lgbtq competency training

Issues of Concern

Learning to care for members of the lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender, or queer/questioning community involves awareness and being unlocked to multiple particular considerations and avoiding unconscious and perceived biases. Members of the LGBTQ people have unfortunately experienced a challenging history, but health professionals can learn to provide comprehensive, kind, and high-quality protect with education. The following will assist the provider in caring for LGBTQ patients.[9]

Understanding Terms[10][11]

• Androgyny (gender-fluid, gender-neutral) – In between genders, having male and female characteristics.

• Asexual – Individuals who do not experience sexual attraction.

• Bisexual (pansexual, queer) – Individuals attracted to both males and females.

• Cisgender – Denoting a person whose personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.

• Cissexism – Prejudice or discrimination against trans people.

• Coming out – Sharing gender persona publicly.

• F2M/FTM (female to male) – Female at birth but identifies as ma

  Education & Training

  Whitman-Walker Institute and the National LGBT Cancer Network have unveiled an online tool kit that helps providers and patients address barriers to health equity in care delivery through cultural competency and cultural humility education, by offering best practice tools for addressing assumptions, breaking down bias, and transforming culture.

  This Cultural Competency Toolkit provides standards and top practices for training health care providers and staff in lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual/ace spectrum (A) cultural competence.

  It is the climax of 3 years of collaboration between expert physicians, psychologists, researchers, educators, trainers, and patient advocates from across the United States, including Whitman-Walker Institute and the National LGBT Cancer Network; Howard Brown Health; Fenway Health; Mount Sinai Hospital System; Callen-Lorde People Health; the UCSF Center for Excellence in Transsexual Care; the medical schools of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, George Washington University, and the University of Pittsburgh; the Human Rights Campaign; the AIDS Foundation of Chicago; and o
  

  SAGECare LGBTQ Cultural Competency Training

  at Senior Living Residences

  Senior Living Residences is always functional to provide the top possible quality of experience for residents at each community, and SAGECare’s LGBTQ Cultural Competency training program helps us stay correct to that promise. SAGECare is a division of SAGE (Services & Representation for GLBT Elders), the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the aging LGBTQ population. The organization holds LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Cultural Competency coaching and consulting sessions for service providers. SAGECare’s target is to “expand, change, and elevate” the stellar care our staff already implements in order to create a supportive environment in which residents can embrace their unique identities. 

  Each SLR Community has adopted SAGECare’s staff development and training program which involves 1) an in-depth training program for community leaders that explores the cultures, needs, and concerns of the LGBT older adults, and helps build engagement with the experiences of LGBT staff members, and 2) a training module for all community associates that

  Cultural Competence Webinar Series

  Quality Healthcare for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual person & Transgender People

  This cultural competence webinar series explores the health concerns and healthcare of LGBT people and is open to anyone. We review the social determinants that effect how LGBT people pursue and receive care and the impact those influences have on health. The series virtually follows the experience of LGBT people and those of us who care for them to better understand how we can create healthcare environments that are welcoming and can help minimize the existing disparities experienced by this population. We delve into the clinical concerns specific to LGBT persons- both in terms of physical health and mental health- so we can better understand how to create comprehensive systems of care that aid positive outcomes and experiences for LGBT people and result in high quality healthcare.

  The webinars are free and include content that has broad relevance to clinicians, administrators, researchers and academics alike. All are welcome and encouraged to attend and view the archives.

  Archived Webinars

  Part 1: Empathetic the Health Needs of LGBT People: An I
  
  

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  i. The basic concepts and essential terminology are routinely the presented in introductory presentations. These resources were produced experts at the National LGBT Cancer Network:

  ii. Thanks to the efforts of researchers and advocates, every year more facts is available on health disparities in LGBTQI communities.  Some information on trans health disparities can be found at U.S. Trans Survey, conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality. National level data from the federal government exists on particular issues like tobacco use, substance maltreatment, and HIV.  General information on health disparities is often effective in communicating the need for LGBTQI organizational and cultural competency.  Resources for data on LGBTQI discrimination on national and express levels is present at the Williams Institute and the Movement Advancement Venture (MAP).

  The National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and the National LGBT Cancer Network have excellent collections of resources for particular populations.  For training pediatricians and geriatricians, the particular needs of LGBTQI youth and elde