At the NGO Training Centre, the quality of our courses rests on the people who build them. Brooke Dunn is a Subject Matter Expert, a valued member of our governance team, and the creator of our new course Supporting LGBTIQASB+ Individuals.
Brooke is a mathematics and physics educator with nearly two decades of experience teaching ATAR Mathematics Methods, Specialist, and Physics across Catholic, Independent, and tertiary settings. She has taught throughout Western Australia and currently teaches Physics at UWA College.
With a grounding in pure mathematics, science, and law, Brooke brings genuine academic depth to her work. What colleagues and students notice, though, is her clarity and her gift for building relationships. She has a way of making complex material feel approachable, and of making every learner feel like they belong in the room.
Brooke is also a Training Facilitator with TransFolk WA, delivering professional learning on gender diversity. It’s this combination of academic precision and a deep commitment to inclusion that makes her contribution to our governance team and course library so distinctive.
Supporting LGBTIQASB+ Individuals is a 35-minute course designed to help aged-care workers provide genuinely person-centred care to ageing LGBTIQASB+ people.
It begins with key terminology and inclusive language, then unpacks the differences between sex, gender, and sexual orientation and confronts the myths that get in the way of good care.
From there it turns to lived experience: the identity harm, social isolation, discrimination, and trauma many ageing LGBTIQASB+ people carry. Brooke doesn’t shy away from the harder history of stigma, criminalisation, and exclusion that eroded trust in aged-care services. It closes with practical strategies for inclusive, trauma-informed, rights-based care.
By the end, learners are able to:
- Define LGBTIQASB+ terminology, identities, and inclusive language to recognise different experiences and foster cultural understanding.
- Describe the differences between sex, gender, and sexual orientation while identifying and debunking common myths and misconceptions.
- Discuss the lived and ongoing experiences of ageing LGBTIQASB+ individuals, including the impacts of stigma, discrimination, trauma, and exclusion.
- Identify and deliver inclusive, trauma-informed, and rights-based care in aged-care settings.
In aged care, the difference between a service that feels safe and one that feels threatening often comes down to whether staff understand the person in front of them.
Brooke has taken her educator’s clarity and her advocate’s heart and built something that helps care workers do exactly that.
We’re proud to have Brooke on our governance team. Her course reflects everything she stands for: depth, inclusivity, and a belief that every person deserves to be seen and cared for with dignity and respect.
Interested in the course? Reach out to the NGO Training Centre to learn more about Supporting LGBTIQASB+ Individuals.
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