Ways to Increase Access to Services:

  1. Overview
  2. Sexual Violence
  3. Ways to Increase Access to Services:
  1. • Collaborate with LGBT agencies
  2. • Provide information and education to staff related to LGBT populations
  3. • Foster an inclusive environment (e.g., revise agency forms and policies)
  4. • Train staff to appropriately respond to disclosures and be cognizant of language used by the individual seeking services
  5. • Avoid assumptions based on appearances and gender identification (e.g., don't assume someone who identifies as transgender is lesbian, gay or bisexual)
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