The Open Door Professional Training Program is designed for family building providers, from reproductive endocrinologists, OB/GYNs, nurses, and pediatricians to midwives, family law practitioners, surrogacy center staff, holistic health providers, and perinatal social workers. Participation in the Open Door Program enhances the ability of providers to welcome LGBTQ+ prospective parents with open arms and meet this community’s unique needs as they embark on their family-building journeys.

The first two modules, Beyond Diversity: LGBTQ+ 101 and Trans Fertility Considerations are now available for purchase. Each self-guided module takes between 90-180 minutes to complete. For more information, visit www.familyequality.org/opendoor or contact opendoor@familyequality.org.

The following LGBTQ+ course available through HealthStream is pre-approved for use in the HEI.

Creating a Welcoming Healthcare Environment for LGBTQIA+ Patients
This course focuses on developing sensitivity to LGBTQ+patients in a healthcare environment and encourages care staff to interact appropriately with these patients to ensure they receive the best patient care. This includes accommodation of people across the spectrum of gender identity and promotes being sensitive to their needs, the laws around LGBTQ+ patient care, and other important patient care considerations. The course examines how to be allies with patients of different sexual orientations, people in transition, health factors common in this patient population, and also provides additional resources. Find this course in the HealthStream Store.

CORE (Critical Objective-driven Reformative Education) Four

Howard Brown offers four foundational courses tailored to health care providers and care teams interested in learning more about working with LGBTQ+ people in their institutions.

• LGBTQ+ 101: Foundations of Care: This course reviews sexual orientation and gender identity basic and introduces LGBTQ+ terminology and community history. Participants will learn about health disparities experienced by LGBTQ+ people, some of the reasons behind those health disparities, and best practices that they can implement to care for LGBTQ+ identified individuals.
• Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) 101: Foundations of Care: This course reviews gender identity basics and introduces TGNC terminology and community history. Participants will learn about disparities experienced by LGBTQ+, review best practices when providing care to TGNC identified individuals, and practice recognizing and addressing implicit bias.
• Gender Appropriate Language: Practical Skill Development: In this course, learners will acquire skills and best practices to communicate in ways that are affirming to TGNC patients. Participants will learn how to understand trauma informed care, dismantle the gender binary, define misgendering as trauma, ask people for their pronouns, and incorporate best practices to promote health equity for transgender and gender nonconforming people.
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Data Collection: Best Practices and Skill Development: This course provides an overview of LGBTQ+ health disparities and discusses the importance of collecting sexual orientation and gender identity information about patients and clients. This course will empower health care providers and care teams to ask patients about their sexual orientation and gender identity and how to record this data in electronic medical records.

Health Education About LGBT Elders (HEALE)

Aging LGBTQ+ adults experience numerous health disparities, yet healthcare providers and nurses rarely recehttp://www.nursesheale.org/ive adequate education on the needs of this population. In response, Howard Brown Health experts developed the HEALE series, which includes the following modules:

• An Introduction to LGBTQ+ Elders: This module introduces participants to essential LGBTQ+ terminology and concepts and best practices for working with LGBTQ+ older adults, including practicing cultural humility and learning to recognize implicit bias.
• Health Disparities and Barriers to Care: This module explores health disparities experienced within the LGBTQ+ elder population and discusses reasons for these health disparities, including barriers to care, minority stress, and social determinants of health.
• Sex and Sexuality in for LGBTQ+ Older Adults: This module discusses sexual health of LGBTQ+ older adults, including both benefits of sexuality and risk for sexually transmitted infections. Participants will be able to practice core elements of conducting an accurate, comprehensive, and LGBTQ+ affirming sexual history.
• Legal and Financial Barriers to Care: This module discusses the legal concerns common to the LGBTQ+ elder community, including issues that translate into financial instability and lack of protections for alternative family structures.
• Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Elders: This module provides an overview of the TGNC community, including terminology, history, common myths, and gender-affirming medical care. Participants will develop best practices for working with transgender older adults.
• HIV and Aging: This module discusses HIV basics, including HIV transmission, treatment, prevention, and history of the epidemic. Additionally, this module explores HIV trends among LGBTQ+ older adults, the importance of HIV testing in this population, and complications of long-term HIV treatment, including how to differentiate between common geriatric diseases, the course of HIV/AIDS, and the effects of long-term antiretroviral therapy.
• LGBTQ+ Elders of Color: This module introduces LGBTQ+ elders of color, health disparities experienced by this population, and reasons for these health disparities, including racism in medicine, minority stress, and social determinants of health. Participants will learn about best practices for caring for LGBTQ+ Elders of Color, including a discussion of frameworks of care such as intersectionality and anti-oppression.
• Primary Care Best Practices for LGBTQ+ Older Adults: This module summarizes modules 1-6, providing an introduction to the LGBTQ+ older adult population and developing best practices for working with this community, including practicing cultural humility.

For more information about either of these courses please contact the Howard Brown Health Education Department at: education@howardbrown.org

There are numerous LGBTQ+ or Transgender specific health conferences around the country. Below is a curated list of some of the largest and most well-known conferences. Many of these conferences are affiliated with HEI Leader organizations or other partner organizations. If your staff members attend these conferences, you must submit copies of their CME/CEU certificates to receive HEI Credit. Please direct any questions you have about these conferences to the conference organizers.

• GLMA Annual Conference on LGBTQ Health
• Midwest LGBTQ Health Symposium
• National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center Conferences or training institutes
• National LGBTQ Health Conference
• National Transgender Health Summit
• Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference
• Transforming Care Conference
• USPATH/WPATH - Any conferences or trainings

This is not a comprehensive list of conferences or trainings on LGBTQ+ or Transgender health. If you have a staff member that attended another conference or training, please be sure to send information about the conference (website, brochure, agenda, etc) when you submit their CME/CEU certificate for HEI Credit. You do not need to submit additional information about any of the conferences listed above as we are familiar with the conferences/organizers.

Since 2014, More Inclusive Healthcare (MIH) has developed eLearning courses that leverage the latest research to address health disparities. MIH’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) eLearning series and support tools help a variety of healthcare professionals work together to provide a more welcoming and safer care environment for LGBTQ+ patients and families.

The SOGI eLearning courses are brief (60 minutes or less), but the impact is lasting—and positive. These are data-driven tools—with a human heart. All MIH materials are developed by a team of experts, including a review council composed of healthcare administrators, LGBTQ+ community advocates, and attorneys. These courses deploy to your organization’s learning management system and include customization.

For a free demo or to learn more, visit www.moreinclusivehealthcare.com

SAGECare provides LGBTQ+ competency training and consulting on LGBTQ+ aging issues to service providers. SAGECare offers the added benefit that qualifying agencies may receive a national credential to highlight the percentage of staff trained. Learn more at https://sageusa.care/