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Trainings to support the 2SLGBTQIA+ community

LGBTQ+ training

The Q Corner offers an extensive menu of trainings to providers and others in the community who are looking to increase their knowledge and skills to support LGBTQ+ folks. All trainings are free and funded by the voter-approved Mental Health Services Act (Prop 63).

sccLearn is the County's learning management system (LMS). Most trainings are available for registration through sccLearn.

Create and access your sccLearn account

New to sccLearn? The first step is to set up your sccLearn account.

Your sccLearn account should be set up. Log in with your single sign-on. 

For new County employees, access to sccLearn may take 1 to 2 pay periods.

1.Visit the sccLearn partner site.

2. Select "Create Your Own Account."

Only providers who have a contract with the BHSD can create an sccLearn account.

Get the organizational code for your agency by contacting your training manager or emailing [email protected].

First, locate the training. Go to the search bar – there is a magnifying glass icon next to the search bar. Enter the training topic you are looking for and press enter.  

1.After you locate the training you want to attend in sccLearn, select the “REGISTER” button, then select the “ADD” button. 

2. Select the “REGISTER” button again, then select “DONE”.    

You will receive an email to confirm your training if your registration is successful.

If your registration is unsuccessful, it is because the class is either full or the registration is closed.

Regularly occurring courses

The following trainings are offered regularly, with the primary route of registration being through sccLearn.

This foundational SOGIE 101 course will give participants a deeper understanding of terms and context of gender and attraction beyond the binary, through an intersectional and interactive framework.

  • Register: through sccLearn
  • Duration: 6 hours, across 2 half days

These sessions are based on a comprehensive, multidisciplinary gender theory, symbolized by the Gender Wheel©, and will equip early childhood practitioners with ways to affirm gender and gender exploration in young children pre-school to 2nd grade.

  • Duration: foundational training (3 hours), workshops (6 hours)
  • Register: through sccLearn 

Intentional Peer Support (IPS) is a way to invite transformative peer to peer relationships and develop greater awareness of relational patterns and support. This course is focused on mutual peer support in LGBTQIA+ communities and services.

A monthly, drop-in, consult group for County and community service providers, to navigate cases and provide gender affirming services for transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse clients and their families.

This evidence-based, trauma-informed course focuses on helping families support LGBTQIA+ children and youth by promoting well-being and reducing health risks through increasing accepting behaviors. This interactive training by Dr. Caitlin Ryan is open to providers, educators, families, faith-based folks, etc. Topic specific trainings are available periodically.

This intensive clinical learning experience, designed by Palo Alto University, is a highly interactive mix of didactic and clinical consultation sessions, drawing from decades of research. Participants will advance their knowledge and skills to better serve LGBTQIA+ clients in Behavioral Health services.

  • Duration: 40 hours, 1 half day a week for 4 months
  • Contact: [email protected] for application info

Do you have questions about working with Vietnamese LGBTQ+ clients and their families? Check out our free monthly consultations with Lotus Đỗ, LCSW

Special edition offerings

The following trainings are offered periodically and are dependent on specific eligibility requirements.

This workshop covers the WPATH Standards of Care 8 and the elements needed for clinicians to write support letters for gender-affirming medical services, including collaborative assessments.

  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Register: through sccLearn

This training provides an introduction to the Neuroqueer experience, and will unpack ableism in society, in psychology, and in the embodied experience of those who live at the intersections of gender and sexual and neuro minorities, such as autism.

  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Register: through sccLearn

This workshop will present basic frameworks of oppression and social justice, and consider action to create more equitable organizations and institutions.

  • Duration: 6 hours, in 1 day
  • Register: through sccLearn

Eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image will be discussed as existing on a spectrum that is deeply embedded in diet culture and body ideals.

  • Duration: 6 hours, across 2 days
  • Register: through sccLearn

This comprehensive symposium by TransYouth Care is for professionals interested in providing sensitive and competent health and behavioral health care for trans and gender non-conforming children and youth.

  • Duration: 14 hours, across 4 half days in 1 week
  • Register: through sccLearn

This training will examine a diversity of evidence-based approaches to conduct effective practice with consensually non-monogamous (CNM)-identified clients of all genders and sexual orientations.

  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Register: through sccLearn

Attendees will learn about evolving definitions of sex work, how current laws and legal structures impact the safety and functioning of sex workers, and relevant assessment, intervention, and research design strategies to make one’s practice sex-worker affirming.

  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Register: through sccLearn

Our partners at OLGBTQ are always adding new training opportunities. Be sure to check their website out for the latest updates: https://desj.santaclaracounty.gov/our-offices/office-lgbtq-affairs