CPHSSWCE0433 - Queer-Affirming Care: Beyond the Basics
Course Description
Increased visibility and a push for more inclusion have led to a burgeoning need for LGBTQ+ competent care, otherwise known as queer-affirming care. This workshop will take learners beyond definitions and social constructs to introduce a trauma-informed way of accepting, empowering, and supporting clients on spectrums of gender and sexual identities. Queer-affirming care is a framework that responds to, rather than perpetuates, the historical trauma and oppression LGBTQ+ individuals and their communities experience. Furthermore, it will provide advocacy next steps for organizational changes that will make queer-affirming care more accessible.
Target Level Audience: Intermediate
Course Outline
(00:10) Introduction(00:15) Why Beyond the Basics and Historical Trauma
(00:05) Break Up into Groups
(00:30) What is Queer-Affirming Care
(00:10) Video: Janet Mock interview of what NOT to do
(00:10) Break
(00:10) Self-Care and Reflection
(00:30) Guiding Principles
(00:05) Break
(00:20) Case Vignettes
(00:20) Advocacy and Change
(00:30) Ending Discussion/Q&A
Learner Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define and explain queer-affirming care;
- Demonstrate an awareness and increased empathy for the queer experience; and
- Identify at least three strategies for being allies and advocates for inclusion and change.
When participants return to the workplace, they will be able to:
- Examine and appraise their role as gatekeepers to improve access to care; and
- Implement and develop a more queer-affirming work environment that includes, but is not limited to: intake process, forms, and physical space.