About Living Proud Inc

About Living Proud – LGBTIQ+ Community Services of WA

Living Proud has provided support to LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and other sexuality, gender, and bodily diverse) people and communities in WA for over 40 years. We provide peer-support, information and resources. We are the longest running organisation of our kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
Living Proud is the WA partner of the QLife national LGBTIQ+ telephone and web chat peer-support and referral service. We also run health and wellbeing initiatives and community capacity building.

We offer a number of training options for professionals including our award-winning Opening Closets Mental Health training. We also offer other full or half day workplace trainings to improve accessibility for LGBTIQ+ people. We run a variety of other projects for the LGBTIQ+ community.

Mission

Living Proud is a non-profit organisation which aims to promote the wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer and other sexuality, sex and gender diverse people in Western Australia.

Objectives

• Provide a range of quality services, support and resources which promote the health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex and other sex, sexuality and gender diverse people (collectively LGBTIQ+).
• Provide advocacy and leadership aimed at reducing disadvantage and discrimination among LGBTIQ+ people.
• Encourage and empower LGBTIQ+ people to actively participate within the Association, partner organisations and the community.
• Provide consultancy, information, education and training to a range of professionals and service providers which promotes access to services and improves the quality of services for LGBTIQ+ people.
• Develop the capacity of groups, organisations, businesses and other institutions to be inclusive of LGBTIQ+ people.
• To establish an ongoing structure to finance the above aims.

You can read more about our objectives in the Living Proud Incorporated Constitution.