Your Community Health achieves Rainbow Tick Accreditation

3 June 2025

Your Community Health (YourCH) is proud to announce that we have maintained our Rainbow Tick Accreditation, highlighting our commitment to offering safer, more affirming and inclusive places for clients, staff and volunteers from LGBTIQA+ communities.

The Rainbow Tick is a nationally recognised framework developed by Rainbow Health Australia. It supports organisations in embedding inclusive practices that meet the unique needs of LGBTIQA+ clients, staff, and communities.

Many LGBTIQA+ people experience discrimination or distressing encounters when seeking healthcare, which can have serious and preventable impacts on their health and wellbeing. In being assessed against six comprehensive standards and achieving Rainbow Tick for the second time, we are showing LGBTIQA+ communities that they can confidently use our services, join our team, and volunteer with us.

Feedback through the Accreditation recognised Your Community Health as a leader in LGBTIQA+ service delivery—especially in gender-affirming care—and commended our strong frameworks, inclusive communications, and leadership in the space. Staff shared that inclusion at Your Community Health “occurs so naturally,” and many felt not just safe at our health centres — but genuinely valued.

Some standout feedback noted:

Our Statement of Inclusivity and frameworks like the Lived Experience Framework and Community Engagement Framework create a strong foundation for an inclusive space
Innovative programs like Being Valued and Trans and Gender Diverse in Community Health enhance access and safety for trans and gender diverse communities
The presence of LGBTIQA+ voices at every level of the organisation — from our Board to lived experience roles — means these communities are well represented
Our inclusive practices are embedded in recruitment, service design, risk management, and everyday care.

Your Community Health are congratulated for a strong focus in relation to continuous improvement and for fostering a learning and development culture in their commitment to providing safe and inclusive environments for LGBTIQA+ communities. Your Community Health is a leader and innovator in LGBTIQA+ service delivery, particularly in gender-affirming care. They build and maintain very effective partnerships and use every opportunity, both formal and informal, to build capacity in external systems and organisations. The Being Valued and TGDiCH initiative are great examples of this.”

This achievement is not the finish line—it is part of an ongoing journey. Your Community Health will continue to create even safer and more affirming health centres, where LGBTIQA+ individuals are respected and celebrated for their identities. Every person deserves to feels safe, respected, and empowered when they walk through our doors.

To everyone in our community: thank you for your trust, your feedback, and your courage. Many members of our team and client community have supported our Rainbow Tick accreditation and we thank those who participated in this process for their insights, honesty and expertise.