Below are groups or organisations that provide advice or safe spaces to connect:

Support for Camden staff

Rainbow Camden on Viva Engage (previously Yammer) is a space for staff that self-define as LGBTQ+, and for allies, to celebrate identities, discuss and learn, and organise events.

Support for staff and residents

• forum+ supports victims of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime and discrimination. They can support with discussing your options with a case worker and reporting hate crimes to the police 
• Elop provides a range of social, and emotional support services, including counselling and young people's services
• Galop provides support and advice for LGBTQ+ people who have experience abuse and violence
• Stonewall Housing provides support for LGBTQ+ people who are facing or experiencing homelessness, or living in an unsafe home
• Switchboard National LGBTQIA+ Support Line
• LGBT Foundation a national charity with LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. 

Resources and further learning

• Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) have a produced a repository of knowledge about older LGBTQ+ people's lives, needs and their experiences with social care
• Why you should think twice before you talk about the LGBT community
• Skills for Care have produced a LGBTQ+ learning framework to help staff in Adult Social Care to work affirmatively, inclusively and effectively with individuals from gender and sexually diverse communities
• Skills for Care have also produced a framework for knowledge, skills and values for working affirmatively with LGBTQ+ people in later life
  
• King's College London and community partners have developed an ABC of LGBT+ inclusive communication guide for health and social care professional
  
• Royal Holloway University of London and West London Social Work Teaching Partnership have produced a resource to support practice educators and ASYE (Assessed and Supported Year of Employment) assessors to respond to LGBTQ+ issues arising during student placements or the ASYE
• Webinar recording focussed on support work with LGBTQ+ older adults: LGBTQ+ older adults in social care - YouTube
• University of Kent, Creating Inclusive Residential Care for LGBTQ+ Elders (CIRCLE), a research project aiming to understand how providers of residential care for older people can improve their LGBTQ+ inclusive care offer
• University of Birmingham, LOASCA study: Lgbtq+ Older Adult Social Care Assessment study addresses significant knowledge gaps about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer (LGBTQ+) older (60+) people’s adult social care service experiences in England. 
• SCIE - Older LGBTQ+ poeple and social care 
• SAND Matters - SAND's journey towards making Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin a better place for LGBT+ people to age
• SAND's Covenant - a campaign of pledges made by groups and organisations to embrace a culture of inclusion.
• 70 Years through LGBT+ Eyes  the film is designed to prompt thoughts about people’s lives and experiences which may be different from our own.
• SAND - Inclusion Matters, Organisations working towards making Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin a more inclusive place for older and old LGBT+ people
• LOASCA LGBTQ+ Older Adult Social Care Assessment Study