Live Capacity-Building Training

Tailored, in-person or virtual training is available for healthcare and public health staff of varying group sizes. Training can be provided for 90-minutes up to 4-hours depending on the topic and organizational need.

Both off-the-shelf and customized training are available, and all training is tailored to the organization's work and to be as interactive as possible. Additionally, all training will include tangible, actionable recommendations for integrating what is learned into staff and organizational workflow.

What you will get

Each training is tailored to the needs of our clients and follow our proven process:

Exploration - A one-on-one or small team consultation to identify training topics.
Assessment - Included in the exploration phase, assessment will include understanding existing staff training needs, skill and knowledge gaps, and assess if training will be appropriate to address the organization's needs.
Tailor - Each training, including off-the-shelf training, are tailored to the intended audience and organizational focus to ensure skills and knowledge being taught are applicable to staff duties and easier to integrate.
Deliver - We pride ourselves on being able to deliver high quality training services on time.
Envision - Often training is not the end of the conversation. Our envisioning phase helps to wrap up the training engagement while identifying additional ways the organization can address health equity gaps for gender-expansive people.

Engaging & informative

Each of our trainings are built using current research and recommendations from trusted organizations and subject-matter experts in the field and each training is designed to have participants engage with the material through interactive activities, scenarios, and collective knowledge sharing.

Our approach to educating healthcare and public health professionals is to build on the existing knowledge in the room and create an environment that is safe for adult learning.

"This session is very informative and allows the space to explore and reflect on these issues. I loved how a case study was included that made us reflect on the layers that barriers reside in."

- Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center

Training Topics

Trans 101

This workshop provides a primer on the use of language, terminology, and broad overview of sexual and gender minority communities. Trans 101 includes the basics of community engagement and how non-Transgender (cisgender) folks can support the Transgender community.

Trans 201 - Medical Providers

This workshop takes a deeper dive into the complexities of providing health care and health services to Transgender people. Trans 201 will review best practices with documentation, electronic medical records, data collection and surveillance, health environments, pronoun usage, and professional development, and train providers on steps to supporting Transgender clients.

Trans 201 - CBOs

This workshop takes a deeper dive into the complexities of serving Transgender people in a community-based setting. Trans 201 will review best practices with creating affirming spaces, public accommodations, data collection and paperwork, developmental outreach, hiring and representation practices, programmatic review, and capacity building.

What's the T?

This workshop will focus on the actionable steps that your organization can take to create Transgender-inclusive service-providing environments. “What’s the T?” will review current organizational practices and policies to provide guidance for your staff and leadership. Ongoing technical assistance can be available separately.

Trans at the Margins

This workshop will explore the complex health experiences and needs of Transgender communities based on intersecting marginalized identities. “Trans at the margins” will describe the public health and medical needs of the Transgender community, health disparities within and amongst the community, and barriers and facilitators to accessing care and services.

Gender Affirming Care

This workshop will focus on medical care considerations for Transgender patients seeking gender affirming care. Included will be an overview of preparation for medical procedures, engaging in informed consent, reducing complications, health literacy assessment, post-procedural care, and multiple frameworks for approaching complex medical cases for Transgender patients.

Communicating to Connect

This interactive workshop will help clinicians improve patient-provider communication with Transgender and Non-Binary (TGNB) patients. Communicating to Connect will cover interpersonal communication styles including and considerations for communicating with gender-diverse patients. Additionally, this workshop will discuss what we can do when we mess up and how to establish, maintain, and repair rapport with gender-diverse patients.

Integrating Sex-Positivity

This workshop will introduce the concepts of sex-positivity, a framework for building trust and engaging communities of diverse sexualities, genders, and sexual experiences in sexual health education. We will discuss client self-determination in gender identity and sexual health practices, creating sex-positive sexual health messaging, and creating sex-positive programs as public health
providers.

Health Equity in Action

This capacity-building training will take an in-depth look at health equity and service provision for gender-expansive communities. Health Equity in Action will cover social determinants of health, health outcome disparities for TGNB people, and gender-affirming and gender-neutral
language alternatives to use in outreach, testing, and medical screenings.

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