RPA ProcessRural Pride Australia Delivers evidence-based, stage-appropriate LGBTIQA+ inclusion across communities and organisations. We tailor services to local lived experience & Need at every step.

Cuppa Consultation

We start everything with a cuppa to listen, learn and better understand your experiences, through space-making, sense-making and rejecting a rural deficit approach. We’ll assess your local LGBTIQA+ inclusion readiness, conduct a quick scan of your LGBTIQA+ strengths and share what’s worked in other communities like yours..‍

In Community

We listen to LGBTIQA+ leaders, community members and allies to learn and understand what's most important for LGBTIQA+ inclusion. We collect everyday stories and experiences to make sure local lived experience is centred in any future planning for LGBTIQA+ inclusion.

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In Organisations

We bring together local services, settings, and organisations, to listen, learn and understand their role in local LGBTIQA+ inclusion. We find out what has and hasn’t worked so far, and identify immediate and short-term goals for local LGBTIQA+ inclusion.

Co-Designed Mapping

We bring together local lived experience and key stakeholders with our two road-tested processes: (1) LGBTIQA+ Mapping where locals assess everyday inclusion, what’s working and what needs to happen next; and (2) the Rainbow Ready Roadmap for mainstream services, settings and spaces on their LGBTIQA+ journey.

In Community

We bring together LGBTIQA+ leaders, community members and trusted allies for our LGBTIQA+ Mapping workshop where locals assess their community on five road-tested factors for rural LGBTIQA+ inclusion. Together we map strengths, identify gaps and co-design an everyday action plan grounded in local lived experience.

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In Organisations

We get to know your service, setting or organisation, assess your LGBTIQA+ readiness, and guide you toward the next road-tested steps for LGBTIQA+ inclusion in organisations like yours. We focus on co-designed LGBTIQA+ action plans that are practical, evidence-based, and low-cost or no-cost.

Everyday Actions

We move beyond the LGBTIQA+ basics and take everyday actions that are grounded in local lived experience. We build the capacity of LGBTIQA+ leaders and key stakeholders to deliver on a local roadmap, engage resistance and move LGBTIQA+ experience from surviving to thriving.

In Community

We work with LGBTIQA+ leaders, community members and trusted allies to turn anecdotal and research evidence into real-world practice. We make sure you have the tools and strategies to take your rural leadership to the next level, further strengthen your community and local partnerships, and engage anti-LGBTIQA+ resistance, hate, and vilification.

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In Organisations

For local services, settings, and organisations, we provide up-to-date, rural-specific, and LGBTIQA+-designed professional development and action planning resources for staff and volunteers. We equip key practitioners and leaders with the competence, confidence, and a practical plan to respond to anti-LGBTIQA+ resistance, hate, and vilification that may arise from local LGBTIQA+ inclusion efforts, ensuring they play a proactive role in creating safer, more supportive, welcoming, and inclusive communities.

Sustainable Thriving

At this stage, we focus on establishing, strengthening, or deepening a connected, collaborative LGBTIQA+ ecosystem that supports practitioners, leaders, and changemakers. Crucially, this brings together groups, services, and settings that might not otherwise collaborate.
We work with local LGBTIQA+ leaders and key stakeholders to move beyond safety, support, welcome and inclusion to the best of regional, rural and remote communities: belonging and connection. Beyond days of LGBTIQA+ significance and pride events, we ensure that everyday inclusion is 365 days a year.

In Community

For LGBTIQA+ leaders, community members, and allies, we help you secure a seat at the table with decision-makers and influencers who are vital for local LGBTIQA+ inclusion. We connect you with others doing similar work—locally, regionally, or nationwide—to build new relationships and strengthen existing ones.

In Organisations

For local services, settings, and organisations, we bring you together with LGBTIQA+ and allied practitioners, leaders, and changemakers. By taking part in a Community of Practice—locally, regionally, or nationwide—you can form new connections and reinforce existing partnerships to enhance your impact.