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Gender Affirming Care (GAH) Training

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transcare+

Courses Offered:

  • 2SQTP-NB/P2SQT-NB Provider Training Online Course

Format: Self-directed education package with clinical mentorship (e-learning) Target Audience: General practitioners and nurse practitioners

CRBC

Courses Offered:

  • Healthcare Professionals | Prescribing Gender-Affirming Hormones

Format: Online module

Target Audience: Nova Scotia nurse practitioners and healthcare providers

Length: 2.5 hours

Certificate: Certificate upon completion

Credits: Mainpro+ credits

TRANSEstrie

Courses Offered:

  • Variety of topics related to the LGBTQ+ communities

Target Audience: Professionals and schools

Provide tailored LGBTQ+ training
Contact: 
services@transestrie.org or 873-989-1289.

Institute for Trans Health

Courses Offered:

  • La gestion de l’hormonothérapie des adolescent.e.s trans et non-binaires

Format: Delayed webinar

Target Audience: Professionals in health and social services networks

Cost: $180

Accreditation: OPQ

Klinik

Courses Offered:

  • Gender-Affirming Care Workshop

  • Session 1: Transgender and Gender Diversity Awareness & Inclusion

  • Session 2: Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy

Format: In-person (specific dates)

Target Audience: Healthcare professionals and students

Cost: $100/person (student pricing available)

OUT Saskatoon

Courses Offered:

  • Queer 101 Course:

    • LESSON 1: 2SLGBTQ acronym, basic queer language and terms.

    • LESSON 2: foundations of identity. A deeper look at sex, gender, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

    • LESSON 3: root causes of discrimination, the different ways in which discrimination shows up, understanding intersectionality and how power and privilege intersect to impact discrimination.

    • LESSON 4: look at practical actions you can implement in your work and other areas of life. You’ll also learn about advocacy, the need for systemic change, and ways to work together in creating change.

Format: Online, self-paced

Target Audience: Service providers, including healthcare workers, mental health supports, educators, justice workers, community-based organizations, government employees, and post-secondary students in social work, healthcare, or humanities

Length: 2 hours (must be completed within 4 weeks)

Options HIV (West Yellowhead)

Courses Offered:

  • Women & Gender Equality program - safe space training

Comprehensive safe space training to enhance understanding and support for the 2S+LGBTQI+ community

West Yellowhead region

CBRC

Courses Offered:

  • Trans Wellness Initiative - Introduction to Affirming Spaces Training

Format: 3 online course modules

Target Audience: Healthcare providers in Alberta

Certificate: Provided upon completion

AVI Health and Community Services (Victoria BC)

Courses Offered:

  • Queer Eye for the Service Provider Trainings

Target Audience: Service providers, particularly in health fields

Contact: Email prismwellness@avi.org

UBC CPD

Courses Offered:

  • Gender-Affirming Primary Care

Format: Online, self-paced

Target Audience: Primary care providers in BC

Duration: 60-90 minutes

Credits: 1.5 Mainpro+® credits

Trans Care BC

Courses Offered:

  • Clinical mentorship call

Format: Virtual lunch-hour meetings every Thursday from 12:10–1:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
Target Audience: Professionals seeking care strategies for trans, Two-Spirit, or non-binary individuals

Trans Care BC

Courses Offered:

  • Intro to Gender Diversity (1)

  • Intro to Gender Diversity - Expanded (2)

Format: Asynchronous Online
Target Audience: Anyone who provides services to or engages with transgender, Two-Spirit, and non-binary people

Duration: Course 1 ~30 minutes and Course 2 ~1 hour

Additional Info: Course 1 is a prerequisite for Course 2

The 519

Courses Offered:

  • Training on sexual and gender diversity in the workplace

  • Workshops for employers and employees

  • Training for leadership

  • Training for front-line staff

Format: Virtual or in-person options available

Provide training that’s relevant & unique to different organization requirements

Rainbow Health Ontario

Courses Offered:

  • Transition-related Hormone Therapy in Primary Health Care

  • Transition-related Surgeries: Planning, Referral, and Care

  • Vaginoplasty: Post-Operative Complications in Primary Health Care

  • Masculinizing Surgeries: Post-Operative Complications in Primary Health Care

  • Puberty Suppression for Trans Youth in Primary Health Care

  • Trans 101 – Transitioning

  • Trans 101 – Adults and Older Adults

  • Trans 101 – Children and Adolescent

  • Workshops:

    • Gender and Sexual Diversity and Inclusion

    • Gender Neutral Language

    • Pronouns 101

    • Coming Out Checklist

    • Transgender Medical Care

    • Supporting a Transgender Person

Format: Online courses available at varying times, registration required

Credits: Some offer Mainpro+ credits

Certificate: Provided upon completion

Fee: Workshops not free

CBRC

Courses Offered:

  • Physicians | Gender-Affirming Care: Surgical Readiness & Aftercare

  • Trans Wellness Initiative - Introduction to Affirming Spaces Training

  • Healthcare Professionals | Gender-Affirming Care: Surgical Readiness & Aftercare

Format: Online modules

Duration: 2.5-3 hours

CBRC

Courses Offered:

  • Conversion “Therapy” Practices in Canada

    • This course focuses on understanding conversion practices (in light of the federal law), & their impact on 2S/LGBTQIA+ people

Format: Online course

Target Audience: Professionals in medical and mental healthcare, 2S/LGBTQIA+ service providers, affirming faith communities, and 2S/LGBTQIA+ community members

Duration: 304 hours, must be completed in 8 weeks

CQMSA

Courses Offered:

  • 2SLGBTQ+ Education Module

Format: Self-paced asynchronous

Target Audience: Medical students

Content: 4 modules

Certificate: Provided upon completion

PEERS Alliance

Courses Offered:

  • Gender Identity and Client Safety

Format: Workshops

Target Audience: Service providers

Fee: Small fee

Contact: Must email xinfo@peersalliance.ca

Trans Support NL

Courses Offered:

  • From Awareness to Action Workshop

Format: Full-day workshop

Target Audience: Community organization staff, educators, and service providers in Newfoundland & Labrador

Info: Fill out the form if interested

Le Dispensaire
Centre de santé communautaire (CSA)

Courses Offered:

  • LGBTQIA+ Training

Target Audience: Health Professionals Community Organizations, and the general public

Tailored workshops and training on gender diversity

The Sexuality Education Resource Centre MB (SERC)

Courses Offered:

  • Ongoing Learning Hub Year Long Membership Courses:

  • Self-Directed Course: 2STLGBQ+ Inclusion

  • Self-Directed Course: Operating Principles for Sexuality Education

  • Facilitated Course: Sext Ed: Discussing sexting with youth

Format: Annual membership courses

Target Audience: Service providers in Manitoba

Cost: $250/year

OUT Saskatoon

Courses Offered:

  • Navigating Inclusive Language & Creating Safer Spaces

Format: Online, self-paced

Target Audience: Service providers, including healthcare workers, mental health supports, educators, justice workers, community-based organizations, government employees, and post-secondary students in social work, healthcare, or humanities

Length: 30 minutes to 2 hours (with breaks as needed)

CME Learning Saskatchewan

Courses Offered:

  • Trans-Inclusive Healthcare Series Modules:

    • 1: The Life Experiences of a Transgender Woman: Lessons to Support Youth | Jemma Martin

    • 2: Special Considerations for Physiotherapists When Treating Trans & Gender Diverse Clients | Dr. Stephanie Madill

    • 3: Overview of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy in Youth | Dr. Marian Thorpe

    • 4: Caring for Trans & Gender Diverse Youth: A Primary Care Perspective | Dr. Rachel Gough

    • 5: Supporting Trans and Gender Diverse Youth in Saskatchewan | Tye Strachan and Corey Norton

Format: In-person

Target Audience: Family physicians, specialists, nurses, nurse practitioners, mental health professionals, pharmacists, physiotherapists, residents, researchers, health sciences students, and other healthcare professionals

Length: 5 to 6 hours

Cost: $75 + tax

Skipping Stone

Courses Offered:

  • Work with businesses, non-profits and governments across the country delivering comprehensive education around gender diversity, inclusion and trans affirming practices.

Must fill out form under "learning, training, and speaking inquiries" for more info on training provided. https://www.skippingstone.ca/contact

Prism Services (Vancouver Coastal Health)

Courses Offered:

  • Workshops and training on inclusion, diversity and promoting health and wellness for the LGBT2Q+ communities

Target Audience: Healthcare and social service providers

Contact: Email prism@vch.ca for training services

Trans Rights BC

Courses Offered:

  • Trans Rights Toolkit Course

Format: Online module

Target Audience: Service providers, admin staff, physicians, students, and volunteers

Duration: ~30 minutes

PHSA Learning Hub

Courses Offered:

  • Prism Education Series: Transgender Inclusion 101

Format: Online course

Target Audience: Healthcare and community service providers

Duration: 2 hours

Trans Care BC

Courses Offered:

  • Indigenous Gender Diversity

Format: Asynchronous Online

Target Audience: Anyone who provides services to or engages with transgender, Two-Spirit, and non-binary people

Duration: ~3 hours

Trans Care BC

Courses Offered:

  • Gender-Affirming Relational Practice

Format: Asynchronous Online
Target Audience:
 Health care providers interested in gender-affirming care

Duration: ~2 hours

Credits: Mainpro+

Trans Link Network

Courses Offered:

  • Providing Trans-Affirming Care for Sexual Assault Survivors

Format: Online E-learning course

Duration: ~1.5 hours

transcare+

Courses Offered:

  • Gender and Identity 101

  • Beyond the Binary: Creating Gender Affirming Spaces

Format: Online

Target Audience: Government agencies, care providers, businesses, and non-profit organizations

Duration: 90 minutes

Cost: Sliding-scale/bargaining model ($0-over $500)

CBRC

Courses Offered:

  • Queering the Compass: Pathways to 2S/LGBTQIA+ Sexual & Reproductive Health:

    • Intersectional Affirming Care

    • Confronting Ableism, Stigma and Bias in SRH

    • Abortion is Queer Reproductive Justice

    • Weaving the Threads of Inclusive Care for 2S/LGBTQIA+ people

Format: Online courses

Duration: Must be completed within 6-8 weeks, depending on the course

Credits: Mainpro+ credits for the first two courses

UBC CPD

Courses Offered:

  • Gender-Affirming Perinatal Care: Safe, Respectful, and Celebratory

Format: Online, self-paced

Target Audience: Perinatal health care professionals

Duration: 3 hours

Credits: 3.0 Mainpro+/MOC Section 3

TWIRI would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Land that is now referred to as Canada. Our central site where we live, work and love is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabek, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. We commit to working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities, centering their voices and striving to decolonize our work.

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