Training and Events

Please note: due to Covid-19 social distancing measures, training sessions are currently being delivered online

Training Sessions for Professionals

SAYiT delivers the following participative and inclusive training courses. All these can be tailored to a bespoke training course for your needs as an organisation/service.

All sessions are 1/2 a day.

LGBT+ Awareness – Addressing the Needs of LGBT+ Young People in Schools and Youth Settings
Ensuring Services and Primary Care are Young People, Black and Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER), and
LGBT+ Inclusive
HIV Education
Young people and sexual health: introductory course
Trans Awareness

“I have been reflecting on the messages I heard about how relatively simple adjustments to facilities and gender classification can make such a difference to how gender diversity is perceived and experienced by young people and those working with them, as well as the wider community. I am talking to colleagues in public health and thinking about how we can implement change to help improve awareness and positivity towards young people questioning and facing dramatic changes in their gender identity.”

Please get in touch to discuss dates and prices for these sessions.

Training Programme for Workers and Volunteers

All SAYiT’s training courses are LGBT+ inclusive and are mindful of inequalities and diversity. The courses are participative and use a variety of techniques to address the learning needs of trainees and the different ways that people learn and take in information.

LGBT+ Awareness – Addressing the Needs of LGBT+ Young People in Schools and Youth Settings – ½ day course

Research shows that LGBT+ young people are at much higher risk of suicide and self-harm compared to heterosexual and cisgender young people. LGBT+ youth rates of suicide attempts can be between four and seven times those of their heterosexual and cisgender peers

Course Objectives:

Learn about key terms, language and identities of LGBT+ people
Consider the impact of stigma, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia and discrimination on LGBT+ young people
Identify key issues and how to address these in schools and youth settings to support young people, to promote inclusion and to address inequalities
Identify key support organisations and resources

Ensuring Services and Primary Care are Young People, Black and Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER), and LGBT+ Inclusive – ½ day course

Course Objectives:

Sexual health, relationships, the law and confidentiality
Exploring key values
What young, BAMER and LGBT+ patients want from GP and sexual health services
Patients’ anxieties about accessing and using GP and sexual health services
How to communicate effectively with groups who experience poorer sexual health (young people, BAMER groups, LGBT+ people)
How to make services as good as they can be for all patients

HIV Education – ½ day course

Course Objectives:

Present information about HIV and AIDS
Examine the impact of HIV stigma and discrimination
Explore how to tackle HIV stigma in schools and youth settings
Present teaching materials for a diversity of ages and groups

Young people and sexual health: introductory course – ½ day course

Course Objectives:

Address key issues facing young people, including puberty, sexual consent, sexting and social media
Consider issues of gender and sexual orientation
How to communicate with young people about sex, relationships, sexual health and related issues
Developing self-esteem and positive choices

Trans Awareness - ½ day course

Course Objectives:

Present the spectrum of language, terminology and identities related to ‘Trans’
Explore the 2010 Equality Act and legal obligations
Examine the components of gender identity and expression
Explore transphobia and its impact
Enable participants to make practical changes within their professional practice, and organisations, to be inclusive of trans people

CALL IT OUT Training Sessions

Our CALL IT OUT LGBT+ Domestic Abuse project is currently funded to deliver training sessions to domestic and sexual abuse and housing and homelessness organisations in South Yorkshire.

We curently offer the following sessions under this project:

CALL IT OUT: LGBT+ Awareness

Course Objectives:

Improve your knowledge on levels of domestic abuse in LGBT+ communities
Improve your understanding about what is meant by Sexual Identity and Gender Identity
Improve your knowledge of terminology around sexual and gender identities e.g. what is meant by cis gender and non-binary
Improve your confidence to support LGBT+ service users
Learn best practice in collecting information on sexual identity and gender identity and trans history

CALL IT OUT: LGBT+ Domestic Abuse

Course Objectives:

Types of abuse LGBT+ experience – including focus on sexual abuse, chemsex and apps, forced marriage, spousal veto
Why are LGBT+ people at risk of Domestic Abuse
Barriers to accessing support
Exploring why as practitioners we might fail to spot LGBT+ DA
Programmes for LGBT+ survivors / perpetrators
Survivor stories

Please note these sessions follow on from the 1st round of LGBT+ Awareness Training. It is not a compulsory requirement to have attended the first round of training, but for these sessions an existing basic understanding of LGBT+ identities will be assumed.

Bespoke Training Courses

Bespoke LGBT+ and Sexual Health training courses to meet your organisation’s specific needs, at a venue of your choice.

Contact info@sayit.org.uk for further information and for details of costs, availability etc.

To book any of the above training courses for your staff or organisation, and to enquire about costs, please contact info@sayit.org.uk

Events

SAYiT runs events year round. Our range of events cater to professionals working across a variety of sectors and covers a wide range of topics. Please see our event page and social media accounts for more information on how you can get involved in our upcoming events, conferences and think tanks.

“Thank you for planning and delivering such a fantastic opportunity to reflect on the needs and experience of Trans young people at last Monday’s conference; it was great to see so many people there. The line-up of speakers was diverse, informative and powerfully moving and the participation from young people was impressive.”