LGBTQIA+ Half Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting your colleagues, young people who are in care, education and other settings. The course aims to raise awareness about LGBTQIA+ issues faced by peoples lived experiences, discusses and explains the history of the LGBTQIA+ community, highlights relevant legislation and international law, raises awareness of stereotyping, provides a forum for people to investigate how to ensure equality and diversity for LGBTQIA+ people, provides external links to organisations that support people and provide relevant resources and explains recent developments within the LGBTQIA+ community. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Explain terms related to LGBTQIA+
• Discuss the history of LGBTQIA+ community
• Highlight relevant legislation and International law
• Be aware of the negative stereotypical views of LGBTQIA+
• Investigate how to ensure Equality and inclusion for LGBT people
• Use resources to support people with issue related to LGBT
• Covers recent developments in the LGBTQIA+ community