FOR SERVICES AND STAKEHOLDERS
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Helping You Help others
We are here to support you
We believe it is the responsibility of services to be welcoming, safe, and inclusive for LGBTIQA+ displaced people. We are here to support you in your capabilities building.
We work to make sure refugee policies and services consider the different needs of LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people. We offer a range of services to help build your knowledge and skills in this area. We welcome collaboration with social and community services, policymakers, advocacy groups, researchers, and other leaders to achieve better outcomes for LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people.
Let’s work together for safety, inclusion and justice!
What we offer
- Bespoke training and professional development: we offer a range of bespoke training and professional development for your organisation. This is a fee-for-service offering. Get in touch with us to discuss your needs.
- Policy review: We offer a review of your organisational policies to ensure inclusivity for your organisation.
- Content review: We offer a review of your materials, submissions, reports, surveys etc to ensure that they are written in intersectional ways meaningfully including LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people.
- Speaking at your event: We welcome invitations to speak at your events to raise awareness about the experiences of LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people. Learn more about the conditions here.
- Promotion of your events, opportunities or research: We can agree to promote your events, opportunities or research if it has clear benefit to LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people. Learn more about the conditions here.
- Information about existing supports and connection of LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people with the community: we can help you determine appropriate referral pathways and connect your clients with the community.
- Community engagement, consultations and co-design: we can help you run a range of community engagement activities. This is a fee-for-service offering.
What we do not do
- Bespoke training for free: our LGBTIQA+ Settlement Hub already offers a range of free courses to meet diverse needs of services. Bespoke training development is our investment into content that is fully tailored to your needs. We are not in financial position to offer bespoke training for free.
- Participation in events where our role is reduced to storytelling about LGBTIQA+ displacement: while we recognise that stories have a great impact, we reject the engagement with LGBTIQA+ displaced people as those who can only tell stories about their displacement. We only engage in speaking opportunities as equal partners and experts.
- Endorsement of content that does not meaningfully engage with the issues of LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people: we cannot support submissions, reports and similar that simply list LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people without offering nuanced analysis.
- Consultation with LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people without fair compensation to them: It is our practice to pay LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people for all engagements. We will not be sharing significant consultation requests that are unpaid through our networks. You can engage with our organisation instead.
- Referrals to FDPN requesting provision of such services as housing, mental health, financial assistance and similar: FDPN is not a service provider and we do not offer direct services. What we offered can be found here.
We offer bespoke training for your organisation
We can design and deliver bespoke training sessions, seminars and professional development courses on a range of topics that are customised to fit the specific needs and scope of your organisation. Our training is engaging, evidence and lived experience based, and tailored to ensure maximum impact. It can be done online or in-person.
What we ran in the past:
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- LGBTIQA+ lens to refugee policy
- Working with LGBTIQA+ displaced people: in settlement services, in LGBTIQA+ services, in mental health services
- Understanding the needs of trans displaced people
- Understanding the needs of LBQT displaced women
- Facilitating safe disclosures of SOGIESC status in settlement services
- Responses to gender-based violence and LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people
We run your community engagement activities
We have collaborated with a range of NGOs and stakeholders as experts on LGBTIQA+ forced migration and displacement. Our team brings lived experience, policy development, community engagement, and research expertise to help you make change!
Explore what we can do and who worked with us in the past.
Community workshops
Australian Human Rights Commission engaged FDPN to run community workshops on the experiences of sexual harassment for LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people.
Community consultations
- Refugee Advice and Casework Service contracted FDPN to run a community consultation with LGBTIQA+ refugees and people seeking asylum on inclusive refugee legal assistance.
- Settlement Council of Australia engaged FDPN to run a community consultation with LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people to inform the development of “Road to Belonging: A Collective Strategy for Australian Settlement Services”.
- LGBTIQ+ Health Australia commissioned FDPN to run a consultation on the experiences of sexual violence against LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people to inform the second National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children (2022-2032).
Co-design with the community
STARTTS NSW worked with FDPN to co-design the Advocacy Toolkit for LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people.
Development of guidance
UNHCR engaged FDPN to develop guidance on integration of LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people.
Report writing
Companion House ACT engaged FDPN to run a community consultation and produce a report on the impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people.
We deliver lectures for university courses
We have worked with a range of universities in Australia and overseas to deliver lectures on topics of LGBTIQA+ displacement and settlement. This includes such universities as the Australian National University, Monash University, Boston University, Curtin University, University of Melbourne, UNSW and more. We delivered lectures for such courses as Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Global Studies, Refugee Studies, International Refugee Law and others.
Join the Coalition on LGBTIQA+ Asylum and Migration Justice
We run the secretariat of the Coalition on LGBTIQA+ Asylum and Migration Justice with funding from Pride Foundation Australia.
The Coalition consists of people with lived experience and representatives from a broad range of areas from peak body organisations, community organisations and peer to peer groups.
The Coalition is a united voice to ensure that LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced individuals receive equitable support and access to services across all facets of their resettlement journey in Australia.
Explore LGBTIQA+ Settlement Hub
Visit our LGBTIQA+ Settlement Hub – your one-stop-shop of your professional development.
Please note that the Hub is being rapidly populated with courses. Keep checking back regularly.