Monterey County Rainbow Connections Gender Diversity Provider Training
The Monterey Behavioral Health Gender Diversity Training is a comprehensive workshop series designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of medical and mental health professionals, educators, and community members in supporting transgender and gender diverse youth and their families. This series will help participants build a strong foundation in gender literacy, medical support, and developmental understanding of gender, enabling them to provide effective, culturally attuned, gender affirming care.
Family Dynamics and Assessments in Gender-Affirming Care: Collaborative Strategies for Mental Health Professionals
This course is designed to equip providers who work with and assess gender-diverse clients—across all ages—with the essential skills and knowledge to apply a gender-affirmative, collaborative approach to evaluations and treatment that is inclusive of the family system.
Mastering Gender Health Evaluations
The Development & Use Of Gender Affirming Biopsychosocial Assessments & Medical Referral Letters. Gain the Clarity and Confidence You Need to Write Ethical, Gender Affirming Medical Referral Letters for Transgender & Nonbinary People.
Recognizing Bias: Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in Gender Affirming Care
This course focuses on recognizing and managing unconscious biases to enhance care for gender diverse clients. It delves into different biases, their impacts in gender affirming care, and offers strategies for effective bias management. The course is aimed at fostering ethical and culturally sensitive practices in clinical settings.
Unpacking Gender Workshop
This is a 2-Day hands-on, experiential training for therapists who work with transgender, non-binary, gender expansive people and their families. It involves key person-of-the-therapist exploration necessary for gender affirmative work...
Helping Families on Gender Journeys: A Developmental Lens
This course will help providers who work with gender-diverse clients across the lifespan understand the basics of gender affirmative care using a collaborative developmental model for working with transgender, non-binary, gender-expansive children, adolescents, young adults, and their families that is inclusive of the many intersections of identity we all hold.
Working With and Assessing Intersex People
This webinar will equip mental health and healthcare providers with the knowledge to navigate the latest changes in the WPATH Standards of Care, version 8, particularly as they apply to intersex individuals. It will guide providers in implementing these guidelines in their practice and evaluations.
Primary, Reproductive, and Sexual Health Care
This Webinar will help mental health providers who work with transgender/gender diverse people and those who assess them for gender affirming care navigate the latest changes in the WPATH Standards of Care, version 8 and know how to implement them in your practice and evaluations.
Where to start: Gender journeys & competencies
This webinar will help providers who work with gender diverse clients across the lifespan understand the basics of gender affirmative care using a collaborative developmental model for working with transgender, non-binary, gender expansive children, adolescents, young adults and their families that is inclusive of the many intersections of identity we all hold.
Surgical & Post-Operative Gender Affirming Care for Mental Health Providers
This Course will help mental health providers who work with transgender/gender diverse people and those who assess them for gender affirming care navigate the latest changes in the WPATH Standards of Care, version 8 and know how to implement them in your practice and evaluations.
Understanding the Mental Health Provider’s Role: Puberty Blockers and Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy
This Webinar will help mental health providers understand the approach to treatment, what to explore in an assessment, and what needs to be addressed when referring gender diverse youth for puberty suppression or adolescents and adults for gender affirming hormone therapy even in complex cases or when co-occurring mental health symptoms are present.
Mental Health and Co-occurring Issues
This Webinar will help mental health providers or any provider managing complex cases involving co-occurring issues understand the approach to treatment, what to explore in an assessment, and what needs to be addressed to give gender diverse people with co-occurring mental health symptoms access to gender affirming medical care.