Training

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: office equipment; Fife Switchboard; training; Body Positive; the Dunblane Conference; Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM); recent calls; and a warning about scandal-seeking journalists and disclosing information to befrienders.

Also discussed is the Stonewall Youth Project and a flow-chart is provided which shows when to refer a caller.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: training; advertising; funding; talks by Switchboard; calls and meetings; and a potential icebreaker event.

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Topics discussed include: Stonewall Youth Group; draft of new leaflets; Edinburgh Gay Switchboard (EGS) 1990 Conference; advertising; Icebreakers; reverse charges on telephone bill; trainees; and a request for a speaker from the University of Edinburgh Nightline.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: the training officer's report; Fife Friend; the rota; request for speakers at a meeting of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM); Icebreakers; the Social Work Department grant; a new volunteer application form; interviews for trainees; contact with the media; and the Stonewall Youth Group.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: letterheads and leaflets; training questionnaire; the Stonewall Youth Project; the Lothian Gay Youth Group; the training officer's report; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) Annual Conference; a request from the Metropolitan Community Church to use EGS's PO Box; the Scottish and Northern England Switchboard Conference; and Icebreakers.

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: membership questions; job descriptions; register of interests within membership; the Dunblane Conference; mentor groups; a training report; and a discussion of calls.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: a request for support for the Gay and Lesbian Centre Appeal from the Scottish Homosexual Rights Group (SHRG); a speaker requested for the National Bisexual Conference; update on the register of interest within membership; the Dunblane Conference; Icebreakers; job descriptions; and a training update.Additional pages detailing the "Register of Interests" are provided with categories including: alcohol, alienated, bereavement, bisexual, employment, HIV,...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: the death of a former member who died following complications related to AIDS; membership questions; Welcome Group; the National Bisexual Conference; phone duty commitment; new arrangements for the team mentors scheme; Icebreakers; the Dunblane Conference; job descriptions; training report; and questions relating to Dundee contacts and the organisation, At Ease, which provides advice and information to members of the Armed Forces.Additional pages include...

Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: advertising; a new information system; Dundee contacts; At Ease; the redesign of the call cards; the Dunblane Conference; Friends of Edinburgh Gay Switchboard; a Lesbian Line Conference; job descriptions; team mentor groups; review of the Welcome Group; Icebreakers; and a training report.

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: membership questions; a new advertising officer; the new information system; Forth Friend; feedback on a Lesbian Line social event; job descriptions; Icebreakers; discussion of cards; training report; Stonewall Youth Group; and an update on the 'TV/TS' Group (TV is an abbreviated form of the historical term transvestite used to describe individuals who wear clothes associated with a gender other than their gender assigned at birth, and TS refers to an abbreviated...