Effectively Serving Our LGBTQ Clients

Nearly two years ago, Mary Mann and I set out to create a Knowledge Community (KC) that addressed the needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people across their lifespan.

The purpose of building a Knowledge Community focusing on LGBTQ people is to give voice to the issues impacting this population and provide comprehensive resources, strategies for effective policy-advocacy, clinical practice and research.  In addition, the Knowledge Community will serve as a portal for best and promising practices for the education and training for social work practitioners, students, faculty, community partners, members of the LGBTQ community, their allies and other stakeholders. 

The goals of the KC are to reduce health disparities and enhance the human well-being of LGBTQ persons by ensuring culturally competent persons are involved at the macro, mezzo, and micro levels of policy, practice, and research.

We are happy to announce the launch of the LGBT Social Work website, LGBTSocialWork.com  and the creation of our LGBTQ Social Work Knowledge Community (LGBTQSWKC).  In addition to the website, the LGBTQSWKC will be supported through our Facebook LGBT Social Work Facebook and follow us on Twitter @lgbtsocialwork.  

Our email address is: LGBTSocialWork@gmail.com. 

We invite you to become an active part of our collective creative efforts as teacher, student, consultant, contributor or as a member of the LGBTQ community in our collective creative processes.

HERE IS HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED - 

• Go to the LGBTSocialWork.com site and access the "CONTACT US" tab and send us an email indicating your interest in participating in our Knowledge Community.
• While on our site, please take a look around and identify areas of the site that you'd like to help further development.  Remember this is a Knowledge Community and the depth and breadth of the information will grow through the contributions of its members.  Send any additions to the Knowledge Community either as attachments or links to LGBTSocialWork@gmail.com
• Join our Facebook group LGBT Social Work Facebook
• Follow us on Twitter @lgbtsocialwork

Thank you for being a part of our community,

Michael A. Freeman, MSW

Mary Mann, MSW