All courses listed below are full-day trainings.

1/7/10, Thursday, 1-day, Transgender – Effective Practice, (CASAC), Participants will gain insight into the transgender experience, explore personal values and beliefs, and develop skills to more effectively work with people from transgender communities.

1/26/10, Tuesday, 1-day, Coming Out as a Straight Ally, (CASAC), Participants will define what it means to be a "straight ally," and will identify some of the unique challenges faced by straight allies in their personal and professional lives. Participants will develop strategies to becoming more effective straight allies.

1/28/10, Thursday, 1-day, LGBT People Working in a Mainstream World, (CASAC), This course is exclusively offered to LGBT people working as service providers. Participants will explore their unique experience of being LGBT people providing human services in a hetero-centric culture. Provider self-care and LGBT affirmative work environments will be discussed.

3/11/10, Thursday, 1-day, LGBT Overview & Practice Skills, (CASAC), Participants will increase awareness about sexual orientation, gender identity, and how personal biases impede care and identify how to develop an environment that is LGBT user effective.

3/30/10, Tuesday, 1-day, The A B Ts of Gender, (CASAC), Participants will explore the relationship between gender and sexual orientation, and the impact of gender stereotyping in different contexts. Participants will develop strategies to combat the impact of gender stereotyping.

4/6/10, Tuesday, 1-day, Working with LGBT Clients in Treatment & Recovery, (CASAC), Participants will explore the intersections of sexuality, HIV status, sexual identity, and addictions and explore and identify effective best practices working with LGBT people in treatment and recovery.

4/8/10, Thursday, 1-day, Homophobia – Reducing the Risk and Harm, (CASAC), Participants will define types of homophobia, identify impacts of homophobia, and develop individual and organizational strategies to reduce harm and risk.

4/21/10, Wednesday, 1-day, LGBT People Working in a Mainstream World, (CASAC), This course is exclusively offered to LGBT people working as service providers. Participants will explore their unique experience of being LGBT people providing human services in a hetero-centric culture. Provider self-care and LGBT affirmative work environments will be discussed.

Space is limited. Use this link LGBT-HAP online registration to register now.

HAP training and technical assistance (TA) focuses on, and is not limited to the following areas:

• Effectively Assessing your Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Clients - 1 day training 
• Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Adolescents - 1 day training
• Trans-Care Basics - 1 day training
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Issues in Treatment & Recovery - 1 day training
• The Transgender Experience: HIV & Substance Use - 1 day training
• MSM, Methamphetamines, and HIV - 2 day training
• Management training and development
• Program development
• Program evaluation
• Staff capacity building 
• Community Advisory Board development

TA can include tailored on-site training deliveries.