TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘We want to help but we don’t know what to do’ : service providers working with Indigenous LGBTIQ+ youth in Australia
AU - Sullivan, Corrinne T.
AU - Tran, Duy
AU - Trewlynn, William
AU - Spurway, Kim
AU - Leha, John
AU - Briskman, Linda
AU - Soldatic, Karen
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Access to adequate and appropriate service provision has a direct positive impact on health and wellbeing. Experiences of inaccessible, discriminatory, and culturally unsafe services and/or service providers are considered a root cause for the health inequalities that exist among Indigenous queer youth. Experiences of discrimination and cultural inappropriateness are commonplace, with Indigenous queer youth noting issues related to access to services and treatment, stereotyping, and a lack of quality in the care provided, which discourage Indigenous people from accessing care. This paper examines the perspectives of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ youth and health service providers to identify what challenges, obstacles and opportunities are currently being faced and what could be implemented to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for Indigenous LGBTIQ+ youth in the future.
AB - Access to adequate and appropriate service provision has a direct positive impact on health and wellbeing. Experiences of inaccessible, discriminatory, and culturally unsafe services and/or service providers are considered a root cause for the health inequalities that exist among Indigenous queer youth. Experiences of discrimination and cultural inappropriateness are commonplace, with Indigenous queer youth noting issues related to access to services and treatment, stereotyping, and a lack of quality in the care provided, which discourage Indigenous people from accessing care. This paper examines the perspectives of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ youth and health service providers to identify what challenges, obstacles and opportunities are currently being faced and what could be implemented to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for Indigenous LGBTIQ+ youth in the future.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:68244
U2 - 10.3390/sexes3020024
DO - 10.3390/sexes3020024
M3 - Article
SN - 2411-5118
VL - 3
SP - 308
EP - 324
JO - Sexes
JF - Sexes
IS - 2
ER -