Curriculum

Sharing LGBTQ Healthcare Best Practices

Howard Brown Health values education as a cornerstone of our mission to eliminate health disparities experienced by LGBTQ people of all ages. We are committed to provide best practices, informed by community, based on research, evidence and learned experiences.

Howard Brown’s education team offers professional development for healthcare providers and care team members who are interested increasing their capacity to serve LGBTQ patients in their workplaces. We offer our current educational modules and are able to provide custom curricula to meet your team needs. Our versatile presentation staff are able to support multi-disciplinary audiences in health care and in allied support teams. Finally, we partner with Rush University Inter-Professional Continuing Education (IPCE) office to deliver continuing education credit in most cases. For more information and to discuss our fee schedule please contact education@howardbrown.org.

Howard Brown’s Center for Education Research and Advocacy is pleased to announce new online modules focused on providing an affirming environment for patients who identify as transgender or gender non-conforming (TGNC) in your clinical settings. For a limited time Howard Brown Health is offering the following educational modules, Transgender and Gender Nonconforming (TGNC) Essentials and Gender Appropriate Language (GApL), at no cost through our learning management system, Litmos. Please share the following modules with your colleagues and reach out to Howard Brown’s education team at education@howardbrown.org to learn about supplemental in-person training offered through the Center for Education, Research and Advocacy.

Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Essentials

This foundational module covers topics including; TGNC essential terminology, medical myths and misconceptions, gender appropriate language, pronoun practice, sentence structure, and gendered language in care settings, TGNC standards of care and how to create affirming environments of care. Upon completion of this module, learners will be able to; define foundational terminology, explain necessity of cultural humility in working with TGNC people, demonstrate skills appropriate for TGNC patients, clients and co-workers and plan methods to incorporate best practices.

Learners are invited to use the link below and input the requested information; first and last name and email.  Then input the TGNC code for the course and click register. Learners will receive an email that will connect them to the modules. The online course is a series of 10 short modules that must completed in their entirety to gain credit. 

Click here and use code TGNC to register.

Gender Appropriate Language

In this module learners will acquire skills and best practices to communicate in ways that are affirming to TGNC patients, including mitigating the traumatic effects of misgendering patients. Misgendering means referring to someone using a word, pronoun or other form of address that does not correctly reflect the gender with which they identify. Additional topics included are based on healthy equity approaches for health care and creating welcoming environments. Resources included direct learners to invest personal time to reflect and elevate their level of cultural humility. Upon completion of this module, learners will be able to: understand trauma informed care, begin to dismantle the gender binary, define misgendering as trauma, gain skills to practice asking about pronouns, plan methods to incorporate best practices and develop approaches to health equity for transgender and gender nonconforming people.

Learners are invited to use the link below and input the requested information; first and last name and email.  Then input the GAPL code for the course and click register. Learners will receive an email that will connect them to the modules. The online course is a series of 12 short modules that must completed in their entirety to gain credit. 

Click here and use code GAPL to register.

Nurse’s Health Education about LGBT Elders (HEALE)

Aging LGBTQ adults experience compounded disparities and multiple barriers to high quality health care. As a result, nurses and providers who provide direct care require additional expertise to meet their needs. In response, Howard Brown Health experts developed the Nurses’ HEALE series, a 6-hour cultural competency curriculum consisting of the following main topics:

The HEALE curriculum was made possible through a collaborative partnership with Rush University’s Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program of Illinois (GWEP-I), funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

CORE Four

Howard Brown offers four foundational courses tailored to health care providers and care teams interested in learning more about working with LGBTQ people in their institutions.

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