Working alongside LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities
Accessibility & inclusion is more than just a checklist. How can all of us do better at advocating alongside, & practicing allyship with, LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities? This unique training is delivered by trainers with lived experience of being both LGBTIQA+ and having disabilities. Utilising their lived experience and knowledge of both the LGBTIQ+ and disability sectors they provide insights and skills into how to create accessible & inclusive services.
This 2 hour training can be delivered online or in person and includes training videos featuring LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities & tip sheets co-designed by LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities & disability advocacy organisations which provide best practice examples & highlight the value of lived experience.
Activities will give participants the tools to think through what access & inclusion looks like for LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities & how you can take steps to achieve it!
‘Advocacy at the Intersections’ was developed as a partnership between the Disability Advocacy Resource Unit & queerspace and originally funded by Victorian Government’s Disability Advocacy Futures Plan but is now offered as fee-for-service model and can be tailored to your organisation.
- An overview of the common terms and language used within the disability advocacy sector.
- A practical understanding of different models of disability and why they are important.
- Skills to unpack what ‘accessibility’ really means and why a person centred approach is central to creating accessible and responsive services.
- An increased awareness of how a human rights framework intersects with creating access for LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities and how this awareness can improve access and inclusion.
- An exploration of the impacts of chronic or long term loneliness and isolation for LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities and how this is currently exacerbated in a Covid19 context.
- Knowledge of the key issues for LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities and how we can work together.
- Reflect on your current practice at your organisation and identify areas for improvement.
- Practical resources to assist you to become more inclusive and accessible to LGBTIQ+ people with disabilities.
- AATI Think critically_P1
- An Introduction to LGBTIQ+Tip sheet
- Accessibility tip sheet
- LGBITQ+ 102 Understanding the Basics tip sheet
- Understanding models of disability tip sheet
- Loneliness and isolation-connecting to community tip sheet