Community Building with LGBTQIA+ Health

Background: The emphasis on relationship and trust building within the LGBTQIA+ community is inherent to creating an open environment where healthcare professionals, information workers, and consumers can freely ask questions and learn about health issues relevant to this population.

Description: The librarian created and taught an open access online course dedicated to LGBTQIA+ health information and utilizing specific feedback from participants, will elaborate and implement future course design focused on community building.

Conclusion: The future course design will be updated to include enhanced evaluations and outcomes. Pre-tests and surveys will be added in addition to the existing post-course evaluations. The emphasis on the course design will focus on adult learning style and theory, and methods to creating a collaborative environment where both student and instructor can engage as openly as they wish, using anonymous tools such as Padlet, Google Forms, and other online anonymous software.