SHINE SA, August 2022 Families in Transition: Information Sessions (Face-to-Face and Online) for Parents and Carers of Trans and Gender Diverse Young People Who are these information sessions for? Parents and carers of trans, gender diverse, and questioning (TGD) young people between 12-25 years What will we cover? In a two-hour session, lived experience workers will discuss: • Gender and gender...
Suicide prevention in LGBTQA+ young people: Best practice guidelines for clinical and community service providers Telethon Kids Institute (Perth), 5th August 2022 These guidelines are intended to improve insight into the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and questioning, asexual (and those of other diverse sexualities and genders; LGBTQA+) young people. They were designed to aid...
The Conversation, January 2022 / The Annals of Family Medicine, January 2022 Young people are largely unaware of the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, through oral sex. That’s the finding of our recent study, published in Annals of Family Medicine.* Historically, research on reducing STI transmission among young people has focused primarily on heterosexual vaginal...
Department of Human Services (SA), September 2021 We would love for you to help recognise a young person making contributions to LGBTIQA+ communities and to society as a whole, including leadership and exceptional performance into the Department of Human Services Pride Award, part of the SA 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards for 2021/22! The awards are designed to acknowledge, encourage and most...
Using social networking sites to recruit participants: methods of an online survey of sexual health, knowledge and behaviour of young South Australians. Stephen Harfield, Salenna Elliott, Liam Ramsey, Tambri Housen, James Ward (2021). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Abstract Objective: To describe the methods of recruitment and demographic results of an online sexual health...
SHINE SA, April 2021 This year one of the largest ever studies on the experiences of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia was released: Writing Themselves In 4. The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University asked 6,418 LGBTQA+ people aged 14 to 21 about their experiences with education, homelessness, harassment, assault, mental health, community...