Our New Parents, New Possibilities training, aims to address gaps in practice-level skills and understanding for professionals working with LGBTIQA+ people during the transition to parenthood. The training promotes participants to reflect on, and discuss LGBTIQA+ language and concepts, family formations and pathways to parenthood. It explores risk and protective factors for LGBTIQA+ new parents and supports improved service responses and networks of support. Afterall, it takes a village!
This training is interactive and includes the exploration of several interactive case studies, designed to prompt thinking and conversation around the diversity of identities and experiences within LGBTIQA+ communities as well as deepen understanding in practice.
Learning Objectives
- Raise understanding and awareness of how LGBTIQA+ people create their families, and what inclusive practice might look like within perinatal and other support service delivery for this cohort.
- Explore risk factors such as mental health outcomes or family violence in LGBTIQA+ people’s transition to parenthood.
- Build knowledge amongst practitioners of how to address risk factors and improve protective factors.
- Explore signs or indicators that support recognition of a need for further intervention or support.
- Build accountability and support through improved collaboration within the service system.
- Conceptualise organisational and system level changes that could enable implementation of an intersectional framework across the service system.
Who is this training for?
Senior leaders, team leaders, supervisors and staff working across perinatal services, Maternal Child Health services and other support services working with LGBTIQA+ new parents during the transition to parenthood.
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If you are interested in this training for your workplace or cannot make the available dates, please get in touch.