Community Training

Since 2016 The Source LGBT+ Center has provided cultural competency, cultural humility, and suicide prevention training to community organizations, schools, clubs, and more. Our trainings are led by LGBTQ+ folks with lived experience and challenge power, privilege, and stereotypes that continue to marginalize and damage our community.

The Source offers best in sector LGBTQ+ cultural competency provided by LGBTQ+ people with lived experience.
We charge $250 per training and $100 per hour for additional development. In order to make these vital trainings more accessible to our community, The Source LGBT+ Center partners with Suicide Prevention Taskforce to provide 1 free training per year to any organization within Tulare County.

  • Safe Zone Project

    This training is a primer for addressing systemic and organizational bias when it comes to LGBTQ+ people. This is highly self-reflective and addresses first impressions, anti-LGBT bias, terminology, privilege, gender, sexual orientation, and do’s and don’ts. This training is appropriate for staff, volunteers, educators, and administrators.

  • LGBT 101

    This training covers sex, gender, identity, and sexual orientation. We focus our time to address gaps in knowledge and understanding tailored to your organizational needs. We cover the importance of SOGI Data, terminology, pronouns, welcoming spaces, risk factors, social determinants of health, and family rejection. We believe with greater understanding comes greater safety for our LGBTQ+ community.

  • HIV Prevention

    Prevention and treatment have come a long way. Many in our rural conservative community lack the knowledge of up-to-date safer sex practices that include PrEP, PEP, and treatment as prevention. With education, awareness, and access to reproductive health care decreased stigma and increases health outcomes for LGBTQ+ people.

  • Safe and Supportive Schools

    Using best practices information from Human Rights Campaign, ACLU, and Gender Spectrum, this training covers specific protections enshrined in California Education Code and State Laws that protect children and youth who identify as LGBTQ within our school systems. Our trainers cover language, terminology, pronouns, school culture, dress code, and transition plans for transgender students.