SILVER RAINBOW PROJECT

Silver Rainbow was formed in 2013 to respond to the National LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Strategy. Silver Rainbow works collaboratively with the government, aged care providers and related services, LGBTI older people and elders and organisations to create an LGBTI inclusive aged care sector.

Activities to date have included subsidised staff training, Champions training, capacity building support and communities of practices.

For more information email Liv at liv@workingitout.org.au or call 6231 1200

RAINBOW CONNECTIONS-AGED CARE VOLUNTEER VISITORS SCHEME (ACVVS)

The LGBTI ACVVS supports volunteer visits to provide friendship and companionship to older LGBTI people.

Visits are available to anyone who:

receives government-subsidised residential aged care or Home Care Packages, including care recipients approved or on the National Priority System for residential or home care packages
is socially isolated.

Funded by the Australian Government.

For more information email Worthy at Worthy@workingitout.org.au or call 6231 1200

EVERYONE CAN PLAY- LGBTIQA+ Inclusion in Sport

While many sports clubs wish to be inclusive, they often struggle to know how. To address this, Working It Out have developed and LGBTIQA+ inclusion in sport project Everyone Can Play.

The project aims to increase physical activity for LGBTIQA+ people through the provision of education, information and resources to anyone connected with the sport and recreation sector.

Through this work, active organisations can develop and embed LGBTIQA+ inclusive policies and practices. This may include appointing an LGBTIQA+ Inclusion Officer or Champion who can both provide accountability for these inclusion initiatives and be a contact point for LGBTIQA+ participants and address any issues which may impact their involvement.

This project was established with a grant from the Healthy Tasmania Fund and continues thanks to funding from the Active Tasmania State Grants, both through the Tasmanian Government.

For more information email Liv at liv@workingitout.org.au or call 6231 1200.

BETTER LIVES

The Better Lives is a three-year, state-wide project funded by the Tasmanian Community Fund to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of Tasmanians with innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex). The project will focus on capacity building for professionals within health and education, as well as within the intersex community itself.

For more information contact Simone-lisa at Simone-lisa@workingitout.org.au or call 0456 032 088.