Raising Awareness!

I (Jan Bridget) began to develop awareness training in 1987, when I jointly set up and ran Lesbian Information Service with Sandra Lucille. For more information about the training during this period click here.

When I set up Gay and Lesbian Youth in Calderdale in 1999, with a group of young people, I continued to develop awareness training packages as well as developing presentations with the young people.

By clicking on the links on the left-hand side you will be able to access more information about the team; the types of training programmes available, including free, on-line, training as well as information about who I have trained in the past and some evaluations. There is also information about the Member Presentations I facilitated with Gay and Lesbian Youth in Calderdale and the different agencies we worked in partnership with. Finally, there is a history section which gives the history of Gay and Lesbian Youth in Calderdale.

Here are a few comments from past participants:

"I have a better understanding of internalised homophobia; I feel I now have more resources available; I have more confidence and a better understanding regarding approaching clients with regard to their sexuality."

"Better understanding of difficulties experienced by young LGBs and long term impact; inability of some agencies to ask the question leaves LGBs only partially accessing provision - importance of question being asked."

"I feel I am now more aware of lesbian and gay issues and I am now quite motivated to do some more work around making others more aware."