Training & Transformation

Changing aging services through our LGBTQ+ Aging Cultural Humility trainings and more.

Support for Communities

Openhouse’s trainings provide service providers with information on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer older adults. Our goal is to educate participants on the life experiences, health disparities, and barriers to care affecting LGBTQ+ older adults, and equip participants with information and tools to provide adequate and comprehensive support to LGBTQ+ older adults.

To request training, please fill out this form (*also below) and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.*Please give a window of 3-4 weeks between the date of your request and the date of the training so we can meet your facilitation needs.

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Training Topics Include

  • Cultural Humility with LGBTQ+ Older Adults
  • Working with Older Transgender Clients
  • Pratical Applications: Case Studies of Incidents and Interventions
  • Restructuring Inclusion: Better Practices for working with LGBTQ+ Older Adults
  • Required Demographic Information Collection: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)
  • California LGBTQ+ Residents’ of Long-Term Facilities Bill of Rights
 

Support for Organizations

Our training program lays the groundwork for your staff to become allies and advocates for your LGBTQ+ older adults clients, residents, caregivers, and community members.

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Openhouse’s 3-hour LGBTQ+ aging cultural humility training provides:

  • Cultural Humility as a Framework
  • Transgender Health Disparities and Barriers to Services
  • Exploring Ageism
  • Gender Terms and Definitions
  • Practicing Pronouns and Advocating for Appropriate Use
  • Do’s and Don’t’s of Working with Transgender Older Adults
  • Group Work and Practical Applications: The focus of this section varies depending on your organization’s needs

Who we train

Staff at all agencies and organizations serving older adults, including administrators of long-term care facilities, those who provide direct services, administrative services, home care, practical support and other critical functions. When appropriate, we can also present to community groups, program participants, senior housing residents, volunteers, or interns.

Openhouse will continue working with your agency and staff after the training and we will be available for ongoing technical assistance and support.

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Our Training Programs include

Collecting SOGI Data with Older Adults

 
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  • Overview of San Francisco Ordinance
  • Building trust and rapport to create safer space for collecting sensitive information
  • Removing barriers to collecting information

Organizational Transformation

 
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  • Restructuring Inclusion: Strategic Planning for implementing Best Practices
  • Responding to Harm: How to Handle Ongoing or Acute Incidents of Transphobia, Biphobia or Homophobia
  • Recommendations for Electronic Records Systems
  • Re-evaluating the Intake Process
  • Culture Shift – Moving Care of LGBTQ Older Adults From the Margins to the Center
  • Facility Walkthroughs: Making the Physical Space More LGBTQ-Welcoming

Panel Speakers: LGBTQ Elders

 
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  • 1 hour duration
  • Panel consists o 3-4 LGBTQ Elders
  • Openhouse trainers

Explore our Cultural Humility Trainings

We invite you to meet with one of our staff and talk about the ways Openhouse can support your organization in learning and better serving LGBTQ seniors.