Create an Inclusive Workplace Environment
Work with us to become a safer space
About
Safer Spaces provides organizational assessments, professional development workshops, and consultation services to create more inclusive programs and workplaces for 2S-LGBTQ+ communities.
Organizations engaged in our program can display Safer Spaces poster and stickers to demonstrate their commitment to 2S-LGBTQ+ communities.
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Read MoreServices
Our services are created to address the diverse needs of 2S-LGBTQ+ peoples by addressing institutional barriers to inclusion. Our interactive workshops offer a shared learning experience that provides front line staff with concrete strategies for their work, while our consultation services guide management towards creating a more inclusive environment through institutional best practices.
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Read MoreOur Work So Far
250+
# of organizations
500+
# of workshops
10,000+
# of people trained
Training Outcomes
Making Your Job Easier
- Experience new perspectives and understandings through critical consideration of language, practices, and history
- Identify strategies towards greater inclusion to implement
moving forward - Reflect and challenge the roots of our own biases
Creating Awareness
- Reflect on the shared human experiences of sex, gender,
expression, and orientation - Understand the ways in which 2S-LGBTQ+ communities are
disproportionately impacted by violence, poverty, and
health inequities - Explore barriers 2S-LGBTQ+ communities might experience
in accessing your organization and services
The Benefits
Clients
2S-LGBTQ+ people who are wanting to access your services are looking for clues indicating that they are welcomed. People will believe that you are unsafe until proven otherwise. Make it easy for someone to choose you because they know you’re working on creating more inclusive and accessible spaces!
Employees
Employees are more productive and meaningful team members when a workplace culture is welcoming and supportive. Help to shape the internal workplace culture by participating in the program and supporting existing 2S-LGBTQ+ employees or attract new ones!
Community Leader
People expect and deserve the right to feel comfortable to either access services or work in a space that is supportive and inclusive of their identity. Create an industry standard by participating in the program and becoming a community leader!
The Need
Lack of Community
Even though around 10% of the population identifies with the 2S-LGBTQ+ community and lots of progress has been made over the years, 2S-LGBTQ+ people are still feeling a lack of societal acceptance and the inability to be out about their identity.
Mental Health
The mental health of 2S-LGBTQ+ people is impacted by accumulated stigma, prejudice and discrimination, leading to higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide than general population.
Lack of Inclusive Services
Studies show that 2S-LGBTQ+ people are more likely to either leave their home region to access more inclusive services, or hide their identity from their service provider, resulting in inadequate services and unmet needs.
Testimonials
I've attended this workshop before & I will again! Facilitators were excellent and created a warm, safe, effective learning environment!
Positively 𝙏𝙃𝙀 best training session I have ever taken. The facilitators delivered content in a way that was easily absorbed and always validated and acknowledged the thoughts and questions of participants. At no point did I feel as though I was really in a training session - which is a miracle in and of itself.
Thank you! as a parent of an lgbtq child and sister of an lgbtq sibling I am so grateful for the work you do to help make the world safer and more inclusive for them.
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