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Our popular Four Day certificated couses in the
Essentials of Sexual Minority Therapy is filling up
well. The course will start in Sept and is for a day a
month for the next four months. People can sign up
just for individual days, but those attending all four
days will find it more cost effective and get a
Certificate at the end.
If you find you can't make the whole course, book
for the days you can manage and then top up the
others later in the year.
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Due to expansion of workload, PINK THERAPY
is now
looking to recruit some part-time administrative help.
Ideally the person needs to be familiar with book
keeping, course administration, marketing and
promotion, and can help maintain the website
(Dreamweaver).
Much of the work can be done from your own home
with occasional visits to the office in Harley St.
Approx 5-10 hours per week on a freelance basis.
Contact Dominic Davies for more information: email:
[email protected]
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Christine Burns of Press for Change has collated a
number of their reports and articles on Transsexual
Health issues. You might want to take a look and
download anything you feel is relevant for your own
work. By clicking on a hyperlink the PDF document
will automatically be downloaded to your computer.
"Not So Much A Care Path..." is available in
PDF form
on the Press for
Change web site, and can be downloaded directly
from there at -
http:/
/www.pfc.org.uk/docs/steeple.pdf
The newly extended paper contains a scene-setting
introduction, plus
extensive footnotes and references, plus a section
on other background
reading relating to this field. All the resources
referred to can also
be accessed and downloaded online :
"A Basis for Evaluating Care Approaches
and Services for Trans People in the UK"
(containing a 7 point "Manifesto for Care")
http://www.pfc.org.uk/medical/cb-
eval1.pdf
"Collected Essays in Trans Healthcare
Politics"
http://www.pfc.org.uk/docs/essays-
transhealth.pdf
"Guidelines For Health Organisations Commissioning
Treatment Services For Those Experiencing Gender
Dysphoria And Transsexualism"
(Parliamentary Forum on Transsexualism - April 2005)
http://www.pfc.org.uk/medical/pf-
guide.pdf
"Report into the Medical and Related Needs of
Transgender People in Brighton and Hove - The Case
For a Local Integrated Service"
(Brighton and Hove Spectrum for the local PCT)
h
ttp://www.pfc.org.uk/medical/spectrum.pdf
I hope that readers will find these five documents
helpful in understanding the problems that beset
treatment for trans people in connection with their
gender issues
TRANSSEXUAL PEOPLE AND THE PRESS
A dossier with first hand accounts
of the negative effects of press
coverage on trans people's lives
http://www.pfc.org.uk/gendrpol/pcc-
doss.pdf
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The Cancer Counselling Trust is expanding fast and
because of an increase in funding and developments
in our counselling services we are looking to recruit
London based counsellors on a freelance basis who
specialise in cancer.
We are also looking for an executive assistant to
support the Director and a fundraiser to further our
developments. If you are interested please send
your CV to Jonathan Lake at
[email protected]
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Pace Family Support Service has recently recruited
an email and phone helpline support worker.
This service is for those who cannot, or wish not, to
come to PACE for 1:1 work. People can contact the
service at
[email protected]. For
the future, we are also looking at the possibility of
the service being available instantly via msn.
Should people want to talk, they can call the main
PACE number (0207 700 1323) and ask for the
helpline. If the worker is not here, they will call the
caller back when they are next in.
Next is a new group, commencing on October 2nd,
for parents of lgbt children. It will follow the
pattern of previous family service groups as in it is a
therapeutic support group, closed after session 3-4,
running for 10 weeks with 2 breaks.
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Each year THT funds the annual Gay Men's Sex
Survey - the survey helps to inform sexual health
and HIV prevention projects for gay and bisexual men
through out the UK and, as importantly, helps to
provide a robust evidence base for future funding of
gay health projects.
The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete
and is totally confidential. The more men we recruit
to the survey, the better the information we get. We
also strive to get as many diverse men as possible.
The only criteria is that you currently live in the UK.
It would be great if you would be willing to click on
the link below and complete the survey.
It would be better still if, after completing the
survey, you forward the URL to as many gay or
bisexual men in the UK you know.
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A big thanks to all of you who have renewed your
membership to the Directory. and you may want
to stand by
your phones! We've taken out an advert in this
Sunday's Review magazine in the Independent on
Sunday, promoting the Directory.
It would be very helpful to know how effective this
advert is, and so if you do get an enquiry arising from
it, please drop us an email to [email protected]
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Thanks for your interest in reading this far! Remember to keep us posted if you have relevant news to share.
With best wishes
Dominic Davies
Pink Therapy
email:
[email protected]
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