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LEI Approved Training Options
Below are a number of LGBTQ+ aging trainings that have been pre-approved for the LEI Ongoing Training Requirement.
These trainings are not offered directly by the LEI team, and they are likely to have a fee associated with them. Please reach out directly to the content providers using the information below if you are interested in accessing these trainings.
Once you have completed training, you can submit your survey hours on the online form. The LEI survey is currently closed, but you can obtain training credit for the LEI 2027 between January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2026.
Project Visibility: Creating Inclusive Communities for LGBTQ+ Older Adults is cultural responsiveness training for service providers and any interested party on the strengths and needs of LGBTQ+ older adults.
LEI Approved Training:
"Project Visibility: Creating Inclusive Communities for LGBTQ+ Older Adults"
Learn more about BCAAA Project Visibility - Boulder County.
Center on Halsted’s Training & Public Education Institute provides customized trainings to meet any group’s needs, including corporations, nonprofits, colleges & universities, and healthcare providers.
LEI Approved Trainings:
"Working with Older LGBTQ+ Clients"
Visit Center on Halsted - Chicago's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Community Center
LGBT Senior Housing and Care provides affirming and welcoming training in practices, protocols, and programs for LGBTQ+ older adults in housing, long-term care, healthcare, and services.
LEI Approved Training:
"LGBTQI+ & HIV+ Older Adult Affirming and Welcoming Practices, Protocols and Programs for Long-term Care Communities"
MiGen trainings are for aging care providers, direct care workers, caregivers, organizations, or any service provider or individual seeking to expand their knowledge around culturally responsive practices and care for LGBTQ+ older adults.
LEI Approved Training:
"A.R.C. (Act. Reflect. Commit.)" (available online asynchronous learning modules)
-Live Instructor-Led Training (available in-person and virtually)
Learn more and schedule a training at https://migenconnect.org/training-and-education/
NOAGE provides LGBTQ+ Cultural Competency Training for healthcare and other service providers who serve LGBTQ+ older adults. We have trained hundreds of local providers on issues related to LGBTQ+ aging.
LEI Approved Training:
"Improving Care for LGBTQ+ Older Adults"
NOAGE – New Orleans Advocates for LGBTQ+ Elders (noagenola.org)
PCOA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to inclusive, innovative, and integrated services that meet the changing needs of Pima County, AZ’s older adults. This work is only possible with the support of our funders, donors, and volunteers.
Title: Visibility Matters: LGBTQI+ and Aging
The Visibility Matters training helps care providers gain the tools needed to create a safe place for LGBTQI+ people to be their authentic selves so that we can meet their unique needs. The training provides information about how to be more aware, sensitive, and responsive to LGBTQI+ older people and their families.
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.
LEI Approved Trainings:
"Creating Inclusive Communities"
“Creating Inclusive Communities for California’s LGBTQ+ Older Adults”
"Creating Inclusive Communities for LGBTQ+ Older Adults-NJ”
"Supporting LGBTQ+ Older Adults"
Visit https://sageusa.care/
Since 2017, five states (California, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon) and the District of Columbia have passed an LGBTQ Long-Term Care Bill of Rights law. Any training completed between Jan 1, 2023 through Nov 22, 2024 to meet your state requirement is pre-appproved for the LEI ongoing training requirement. Submit your spreadsheet/lms report on this form to receive credit for your hours completed.
Title: LGBTQ+ Older Veterans Health Care Module
This training provides VA staff and providers with an understanding of LGBTQ+ Veterans and how to discuss sexual orientation and gender identity. Relevant policies, health disparities, and creating a welcoming environment are reviewed. This training details specific health care needs of older Veterans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer as well as those who are transgender and gender diverse. This includes the health issues for older LGBTQ+ Veterans related to interacting with health care providers, including wanted caregivers, and health changes that may interact with gender-affirming care for some. This training is a package of four existing TMS modules for participating CLCs.
Target Audience: VHA Health Care providers of all professions and other VHA and VA staff.
TMS modules included:
131013574 Transgender and Gender Diverse Veterans: Introduction
131013022 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Veterans: Introduction
41294 Transgender: Older Transgender and Gender Diverse Veteran Care
44898 LGB: Health Concerns for Older LGB Veterans
Does your community provide training in-house or use a training provider not listed above? You can receive on-going training credit by providing a training that is developed by your organization or third-party that covers the criteria below. Fill this form to submit training for approval.
Requirement for LGBTQ+ Cultural Competency Training
The training must be a minimum of 60 minutes. The following is the curricula content required:
- Define key terms and discuss the appropriate use of LGBTQ+ related terminology
- Explanation of key terms
- Generational differences in terminology
- Appropriate and inappropriate terminology
- Information on the unique needs and perspectives of LGBTQ+ older people
- Demographic and census data
- Contemporary barriers to care/key statistics
- LGBTQ+ inclusion with an intersectional lens
- Historical experiences of LGBTQ+ people accessing care
- Specific experiences of LGBTQ+ older people of color
- Approaches for supporting transgender and gender non-binary identifying individuals
- Trauma-informed care for LGBTQ+ people
- Organizational, individual, and legal best practices and protections
- Legal rights and protections that cover LGBTQ+ people
- Best practices for long-term care communities in serving LGBTQ+ people
- Answers to common questions
Do you want to become an approved LEI training provider?
Third-party or training developed by the LEI participating organization may be used to meet the ongoing training requirements of the LEI. To request a training be approved for the LEI, please open and complete the form below.
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