The LGBTQ Parenting Network offers educational workshops, trainings, public speaking, and lectures on a wide range of LGBTQ parenting issues and themes.

 

We work with health, legal, social work and education organizations, service providers and professionals who are interested in making their services more accessible and friendly to LGBTQ families. 

 

The Parenting Network has provided trainings, presentations, and/or workshops to university and college students in midwifery, nursing, medical, child care and social work programs, as well as women, gender and sexuality studies, criminology, and child and youth studies. We have also made presentations in hospital settings, high schools, to family resource programs and at Pride and other LGBTQ events.

 

The LGBTQ Parenting Network also offers specific in-service training to sperm banks and fertility clinics interested in improving their cultural competency with regards to LGBTQ clients. The training we offer covers broad LGBTQ issues and concerns, including LGBTQ issues with regards to the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, as well as information focused specifically on the needs of particular groups, for e.g. trans people accessing fertility clinics. We have worked with many of the downtown Toronto clinics and look forward to continuing to develop these connections in Toronto and beyond. 

 

For more information: parentingnetwork@sherbourne.on.ca

 

 

The 519's Queer Parenting Programs also offers in-house group training and workshops.

 

For more information: queerparenting@the519.org