Trauma-Informed Care to Reduce Health Risks & Increase Well-Being for LGBTQ Children & Youth

Monterey County Rainbow Connections
A Family Acceptance Project® Training

Trauma-Informed Care to Reduce Health Risks & Increase Well-Being for LGBTQ Children & Youth

June 17-19, 2025
9 am – 12:30 pm PT

9 CE’s Available
The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Gender Health Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Monterey County Rainbow Connections Family Acceptance Project® Trainings on Increasing Family Acceptance & Support for LGBTQ+ Children & Youth

The Family Acceptance Project® (FAP) – in collaboration with Rainbow Connections – is providing an ongoing series of trainings for providers, religious leaders and community members to help diverse families learn to support their LGBTQ+ children to prevent health risks, strengthen families and promote well-being. These include: a foundational trauma-informed training on increasing family support, trainings on implementing FAP’s Family Support Model and trainings for school-based providers, religious leaders, child welfare workers and others to increase family support and decrease risk for LGBTQ+ children and youth.

More than 20 years ago, FAP conducted the first research and developed the first Family Support Model to help racially and religiously diverse families to support their LGBTQ+ children. FAP trainers are affiliated with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. FAP has provided training for more than 130,000 families, providers, religious leaders, community members and youth.

ABOUT THIS TRAINING:

This is the first training provided by FAP to teach practitioners how to apply FAP’s trauma-informed family support model. During three 3-hour sessions participants will learn how to use FAP’s culturally grounded assessment measures, how to provide organizational safety and support for LGBTQ children and youth, how to develop and implement a family support plan and how to provide psychoeducation for racially and religiously diverse families, including families that reject their LGBTQ children provided by the developers of this work.

This training is free of charge

Educational Goal

Join Dr. Caitlin Ryan & Antonia Barba,LCSW, for an evidence-based workshopfrom the Family Acceptance Project® on how family support can protect LGBTQstudents from depression, suicide risk &more—while strengthening their well-being across culture & faith.

Learning objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Describe 2 Family Acceptance Project® strategies to help families to decrease risk and promote well-being for their LGBTQ children.
Identify 3 best practices that you can apply to create a trauma-informed environment to safely engage, assess and support diverse LGBTQ+ children & youth and their families.
Describe 3 family behaviors that contribute to increased health risks for LGBTQ adolescents, including suicidality, substance abuse, depression and HIV, and 3 family behaviors that protect against risk and promote well-being.
Identify 2 Family Acceptance Project® resources to help diverse families to decrease family rejection and health risks and to increase family acceptance and well-being for LGBTQ children and youth.

Presenters

Caitlin Ryan, PhD, ACSW

Caitlin Ryan, PhD, ACSW (her/hers) is a clinical social worker, educator and researcher and director of the Family Acceptance Project® (FAP) at San Francisco State University who has worked on LGBTQ health and mental health for more than 40 years. With her team, Dr. Ryan conducted the first research and developed the first evidence-based family support model to help diverse families to support their LGBTQ children and youth – in the context of their families, cultures and faith traditions. Her work has established the field of family intervention and acceptance for LGBTQ children & youth and is being implemented across systems of care.

Antonia Barba, LCSW

Antonia Barba, LCSW (she/hers) is a consultant, educator and clinician who has worked in the field of community mental health for 20 years. She is a founder and co-chair of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s (NCTSN) Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Collaborative Group and has trained extensively on trauma-informed care with LGBTQ+ youth and families. Antonia collaborates with Dr. Caitlin Ryan to provide FAP trainings and to implement FAP’s Family Support Model to help diverse families to prevent health risks and increase well-being for LGBTQ+ children and youth.

9 CE Credits Available

The Gender Health Training Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Gender Health Training Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.