October 16, 2019– VNSNY is now in its third year of providing SAGECare LGBT competency training to its employees. Today, this training—which teaches the importance of respecting all sexual orientations and gender identities, and outlines specific ways to achieve this—continues to resonate with VNSNY staff members. “We recently had four wonderful training sessions with HHA supervisors at Partners in Care,” says Sadiya Abjani, a trainer from SAGE, the advocacy group for LGBT seniors, who works frequently with VNSNY staff. “Partners in Care, and VNSNY as a whole, do an amazing job of cultivating an incredibly diverse workforce. This diversity lifts our SAGECare training to a completely different level, by letting us hear where different people are coming from in their journey of understanding and caring for our LGBT constituency.” In her recent Partners in Care sessions, notes Sadiya, “There were definite ‘ah-hah’ moments for those attending.” While the 90-minute sessions were often