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Safer Spaces for

2S-LGBTQIA+ Older Adults

 Thursday, April 16, 2026

9AM - 4PM*

(*registration table and complimentary continental breakfast open at 8:30AM)

 This workshop:

• Builds shared understanding and practical starter skills to increase safety, dignity, and access for 2S-LGBTQIA+ Older Adults across service settings (health, social services, community programs, congregate living and long-term care); and
• Sets out a clear pathway for organizations that want consistent, team-wide practice and lasting implementation of skills and strategies and best practices

for frontline workers, leaders and decision-makers serving older adults.

This work is our individual and collective response-ability to the reality that the same 2S-LGBTQIA+ individuals who fought for equal rights, and who survived the early days of HIV/AIDS epidemic matters, are now feeling compelled to return to living their lives "in the closet" as they are confronted by the added vulnerabilities of aging.

It's a day about shared language and practical starting points for building consistency among teams, deepening skills, and embedding inclusion work into everyday practice and policy.

By the end of the day, participants will be able to:

1. Explain key inclusion concepts in plain language;
2. Recognize how the current political climate and public discourse can increase fear, hesitation, and safety risks for 2S-LGBTQIA+ older adults, even when laws differ locally;
3. Reduce outing risks through consent-based documentation and privacy-minded practices;
4. Practise a set of staff scripts for welcome, clarification, repair, consent, boundaries, and escalation.
5. Identify one quick win (within two weeks) and one structural change (within 60-90 days) that improve the safety at the environment/system level; and
6. Utilize a clear "when harm happens" pathway that protects dignity while reducing further exposure.

Throughout the day, we'll prioritize a systems-first, choice and consent, accessible engagement, practise over perfection, and capacity-aware approach that maps a pathway from awareness to skill building to consistent practice, and finally, to embedded policy and psychologically safe culture.

The result? Each member of your team will feel confident in their ability to:

• Welcome 2S-LGBTQIA+ older adults without assumptions;
• Reduce outing risk through consent and privacy-minded practice;
• Respond to harm (e.g., misgendering, unconscious bias, exclusion) with a clear, dignified pathway;
• Apply these practices consistently across your team; and
• Access scripts, escalation pathways, and documentation practices needed for follow-through.

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Safer Spaces core 2S-LGBTQIA+ Inclusion professional development training not only helps organisations build shared language, practised skills, and implementation tools that embed safer practice into everyday service delivery, policy, and onboarding, we also serve as a model for broader EDIB training via highly transferable skills and concepts.

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