Case study: Project 93
Project 93: a tackling health inequalities case study
Project 93 were set up in 1993 as a HIV charity. Since then their remit has grown to offer holistic support to the LGBTQ+ community.
Last year Project 93 were approached by University Hospitals North Midlands NHS Trust who were seeking Trans awareness training.
Having successfully applied for a Community Health Champions grant, Project 93 were able to develop on-line training for hospital staff.
Chief Executive Officer Darren Kempson said:
“The training has gone amazingly well. We’ve developed an outline of the training with a focus group of about 50 people and the Chief Executive has since made everyone aware of the training.
“We’ve recently followed up with some in person training and 15 people turned up and gave great feedback. We’re going to leave the online training in place and there appears to be a real appetite for more in-person training.”
Darren said he felt the trans awareness training they had developed had potential for role out to other employers including the emergency services.
He said: “It’s probably 80 per cent ready to go to other organisations. It’s one of those difficult things – it doesn’t effect lots of people but for those it does effect, it can have a massive impact.”
Project 93 already offer LGBT in the Workplace and Working with LGBT Youth training which are recognised as Continued Profession Development.