SERVING NEW YORK'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER & HIV-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES

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Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence (DV/IPV)

AVP works with community members as well as with service providers to address DV/ IPV in LGBTH communities. Participants will be able to understand the differences and similarities between LGTBH DV/IPV and Heterosexual DV/IPV. Community members will be able to define DV/IPV, understand the cycle of violence, as well as have a working knowledge of how to safety plan. Service providers will be able to develop best practices when working with LGTBH DV/IPV survivors, and be able to give appropriate referrals.

DV/IPV Screening and Assessments Tools for Clinical Staff

These in-depth trainings run forapproximately four hours. Included in these trainings are skills building work on identifying issues for LGTBH survivors of DV/IPV, assessing batterers from victims and case counseling with the Anti-Violence Project.

HIV Related Violence

Information in these sessions focuses on how HIV related violence intersects with other forms of violence. Training/workshop goals include a participant's ability to identify HIV related bias, discuss ways in which HIV related bias is used to further other types of violence, and ways to safety plan.

Youth

This training/workshop discusses how LGTBHQ youth experience violence related to homophobia and hetero-normativity. Participants will discuss the impact of anti-LGTBH epithets on LGTBH youth as well as the ways that anti-LGTBH bias plays out at their agency, organization, institution, or school. In addition to identifying LGTBH youth related violence and how to address it, participants will discuss resources for LGTBH youth sensitive issues. We also offer workshops for youth on Healthy Relationships and Gender 101.

Transgender Related Violence

Transgender communities in New York City face a great deal of violence on interpersonal, institutional, and cultural levels. Participants will have the opportunity to identify and discuss various forms of transphobic violence, from bias-related crimes to barriers in accessing services.

Bias Against LGBTH Communities

Bias trainings/ workshops range from helping providers to understand how their own biases may cause revictimization of LGTBH clients to helping clients to define and address the bias in their daily lives. Participants address institutional homophobia and heterosexism as well as internalized homophobia and bias within LGBTH communities.

Sexual Assault

As with the mainstream populations, LGTBH people often do not report sexual assaults. When they do report, they face a great deal of stigma and revictimization. AVP’s educational efforts seek to provide in depth understanding of socio-cultural biases that LGTBH individuals encounter prior, during, and after an assault. This allows participants the opportunity to develop an understanding of potential roadblocks to services for LGTBH sexual assault survivors and what they as providers can do to address such barriers. Community members discuss types of victimization often experienced by LGTBH survivors of sexual assault and also receive information regarding options for LGTBH survivors.