My Rural Story

ReganJane Sharp

My name is Regan, I’m a community psychologist working in south east Queensland. I was actually born in Darwin and grew up in some remote parts of the Northern Territory. I also spent a lot of time in North Queensland which is where I would call home. I’ve lived in metropolitan areas as well but, I’ve also spent quite a lot of time in regional, rural and remote Australia. Most recently in Western Australia and have done a lot of work throughout the state there. Tell us about your rural and remote LGBTIQ work in Western Australia SowhenIwasworkinginWesternAustralia, I worked as part of an organisation doing

LGBTIQ mental health training. The objective of that training was to try and create better outcomes for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer people in regional and remote parts of the state. The way that we did that was work with mental health workers, psychiatrists, anyone working as part of allied health in those areas to improve their practice standards around working with these populations. We know that these populations are more vulnerable, particularly in non-metropolitan areas because there are rarely LGBTIQ services or applicable resources for people living in non-metropolitan areas. A lot of the work we did there was very

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