Supporting your organisation to be LGBTIQA+ inclusive

I can provide consultancy and mentoring for improving your organisation's LGBTIQA+ cultural safety and building up your Rainbow Tick evidence.

As an industry leader and co-author of the current Rainbow Tick guides, I have helped hundreds of organisations improve their capacity to provide a safer and more inclusive environment for LGBTIQA+ staff and clients. Whether you are yet committed to full Rainbow Tick accreditation or only able to make smaller steps towards greater LGBTIQA+ inclusion, I can support you to achieve your goals in this area. Always providing a mentoring approach (teach you how to fish, not just give you the fish), I offer one-off document and strategy consultation/reviews, or engage in a short-term contract where I more intensively guide you through multiple (or all) parts of the process.

Single document consultancy and advice

Have you created a resource, training material, a Rainbow Tick accreditation strategy document or an accrediation evidence wharehouse which you would like reviewed by an expert?

All you need to do is email me the document(s), I assess the time my review will take and provide you a quote, and after approval I provide you detailed notes on your document(s).

It is that simple!

Improving your Policy, Procedure, Work Instructions, and/or Data Collection Systems

Ensuring key policies, procedures and work instructions are LGBTIQA+ inclusive is the backbone to creating an enabling environment for the Cultural Safety of your staff, clients, and volunteers.

I can support you through the auditing, gap identification, and updating or creating the necessary key components of your Organisational Capability to enable LGBTIQA+ Cultural Safety in your workplace and service systems.

Workforce Development Strategy

Empowering your workforce with the knowledge and skills necessary for LGBTIQA+ inclusive practice is truly transformative.

Collaborating with your people leaders, Rainbow Tick Working Group, or Learning and Development team, I can support you in every step of developing and delivering a best practice strategy. Together we conduct an initial Learning Needs Analysis which then informs the development and delivery of a suite of custom contextualized curriculum for every part of your organisation from the Board through to front-line staff and even volunteers.

Consumer Participation Strategy

How are you to know what makes LGBTIQA+ staff, clients and volunteers experience your service as a Culturally Safe environment and employer of choice? Well, we ask them!

I have extensive group facilitation skills and knowledge in conducting safe and successful consultations with LGBTIQA+ consumers and staff. In collaboration with the staff you identify, I guide you through the development and deployment of a robust Consumer Consultation Strategy which centers the voice of the LGBTIQA+ communities within an ongoing Continuous Quality Improvement framework.

Select publications I have authored or co-authored (hyperlinked)

Rainbow Tick Standards: A framework for LGBTIQ cultural safety (2020) and Rainbow Tick accreditation and evidence guide (2020)

Writing Themselves In 4: The Health and Wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ Young People in Australia – A series of national & state reports on the largest ever Australian study (2019 - 2021)

Our Rainbow Lives: an introduction to LGBTIQA+ identity, experiences, sexuality, gender and bodies for people with intellectual disability and their supporters (2021)

Violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of LGBTQA+ people with disability A secondary analysis of data (2022)

Opening Doors: Ensuring LGBTIQ-inclusive family, domestic and sexual violence services, and the corresponding Case Studies of Promising Practice (2022)

Research Matters: Why do we need LGBTIQ Inclusive Services? (2020) and Research Matters: What does it mean to be LGBTIQ? (2020)

Pride in Prevention: A guide to primary prevention of family violence in LGBTIQ communities (2020)

My Other Closet the Cabaret: an LGBTQ intimate partner violence educational theatre project (2013- current)