Social Work is still dominated by heteronormativity and binary gender norms. Therefore, queer persons and their specific needs as an especially vulnerable and remarkably heterogenous group are not seen.

The project queer-inclusive Social Work aims to conduct a needs assessment for Social Work services for LGBTIAQ+ persons and their relatives in Lower Austria and subsequently draft participatory concepts for how targeted counselling and networking services can be implemented in Lower Austria (with a focus on rural areas). Through qualitative research methods (expert interviews, biography work, social space analyses on participatory needs assessments), the status quo and the target state of specific LGBTIAQ+ services are determined with a special focus on the position of LGBTIAQ+ at the interface of all action fields of Social Work.

In concrete terms, the results of the (participatory) research shall serve as the foundation to work on concepts of queer and inclusive social for organisations – both when it comes to specific services and the implementation of LGBTIAQ+ in all action fields of Social Work.