On-Line Training Programme

Level Two: Deepening our understanding

To develop your understanding it is recommended that you visit the GALYIC website, in particular the on-line Support section. Here you will find sub-sections on Bullying, Coming Out, Health, Housing, Parents and Professionals.

For example, to find out more about the effects of homophobia on psychological and physical well-being visit Coming Out, and Health.

The Professionals sub-section includes a paper outlining the Pathways some LGBT young people take to end up in A&E which identifies the triggers, the role of agencies and what they can do to help reduce admissions to A&E.

Putting it into Practice

Now that you have the knowledge and understanding, and hopefully your management have all the necessary policies and procedures in place, as well as actively wanting to support change, what's the next step?

There are lots of practical resources you can download from the GALYIC website. For example, in the Professionals section there is a paper to support professionals to find out the sexual orientation of clients entitled "Ask but Don't Ask," and you can download an American document about best practice guidelines.

In the Bullying section you can download 'guidelines' for young people, teachers, families and head teachers on how to respond to homophobic bullying; there are also links to Stonewall so you can access their resources and in particular 'Oh no! Not the Gay Thing!' As well as links to Schools Out who have a lot of resources, to American projects who provide ideas and resources, to a video of a school teacher talking about how they did it in their school.

In the Parents section there are links to resources and we would especially recommend a new publication from the Family Acceptance Project in the USA.

The Coming Out section is aimed at young people but reading it will help you to help young people come out when appropriate. Other resources in this section will help young people feel less isolated.

There are links to lots of resources in the different Health sections.

In other words, what isn't available on the GALYIC website is usually available elsewhere and the website provides links to make these more easily accessible; see the Links section and in particular, the link to Research and Resources.